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St Catherine's School is an independent, non-denominational, Christian day and boarding school for girls, located in Toorak, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1896 as Castlemaine Ladies' College, the school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 730 students from Pre-School to Year 12, including 80 boarders, on a 2.9 hectare campus. Boarding students come to St Catherine's from country Victoria, interstate and overseas.〔 St Catherine's is a member of the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia, the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV), the Australian Boarding Schools Association, and a founding member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV). In October 2007, Dr Sylvia Walton AO was appointed as the twelfth Principal of St Catherine's School. ==History== St Catherine's School was founded as Castlemaine Ladies' College in 1896, by Miss Jeanie Hood in Templeton Street, Castlemaine. At the instigation of Henry Langley, the first Anglican Bishop of Bendigo, his daughters, Ruth, Aphra and Nona took over the school in 1903. The Langley sisters later changed the School's name to Castlemaine Girls' College, and in 1911 to St Catherine's Girls College, Castlemaine, after the Anglican School St Catherine's School at Waverley in Sydney, where Ruth and Nona Langley had been educated. St Catherine's was a nominally Anglican school at this time in its history.〔 In 1920, St Catherine's School moved to Williams Road in Melbourne, where 48 pupils were enrolled. Ruth Langley had been joined in 1919 by Flora Templeton, who came as co-Principal from Blair School, at St Georges Road, Toorak, with her students.〔 In 1922, St Catherine's Grammar School had 80 students, and in need of more accommodation, Miss Langley and Miss Templeton purchased "Kilbride House", formerly known as "Beaulieu", at 17 Heyington Place, Toorak. The building was ultimately renamed "Sherren House", in recognition of Mrs Ruby Lawrence (née Sherren), who was the schools Matron from 1923 to 1946. Flora Templeton died in 1931, but Ruth Langley continued the administration of the School, appointing Edna Holmes as Headmistress. After Ruth Langley's death in 1933, her sister Miss Hilda Langley became Principal.〔 In 1942, World War II saw the School buildings requisitioned as a residence for the W.A.A.A.F. St Catherine's found a temporary home at Mountain Grand, Warburton, and returned to Heyington Place in 1943. In 1944 Miss Sophie Borland was appointed Headmistress and worked with Hilda Langley as Principal until the end of 1947, when the trustee of the late Ruth Langley decided to hand control of the School to a Council. The first Chairman of the Council was The Right Reverend John McKie, Bishop of Geelong.〔 In 1948, Barbreck, at 33 Heyington Place, was acquired for use as a Junior School, making possible further extensions to the Secondary School, and pupil numbers increased to about 400.〔 In 1950 Miss Mary Davis was appointed as Principal and Headmistress. In 1957, Hilda Langley died, ending the Langley family's long association with the School.〔 Mrs R Ann Baylis served as Principal from 1971–77, and her two daughters attended the school. In 1977 Miss Dorothy Pizzey was appointed to this post.〔(St. Catherines School ), at enterprisesearch.com.au, retrieved 2009-10-19〕 Beginning in 2006, the school offered the IB Primary Years Programme〔(St Catherine's School ), at ibo.org, retrieved 2008-04-19〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Catherine's School, Toorak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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