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St John the Evangelist Catholic High School, or the colloquial St John's, is a non-selective, coeducational, Catholic systemic high school, located in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia. The school provides inexpensive education to Catholic and non-Catholic families alike. St John's has approximately 1,000 students, most of whom come from Catholic families. This is in contrast to the local government high schools, which are well in excess of 1,000 students. Many of the school's students do not live in the Nowra area, and travel by bus each day from around the Shoalhaven. ==History== St John's was founded in 1989, as Catholic families in the region wanted a secondary school for their children. Up until 1967 there was a Catholic secondary school provided at St Michael's school, but it was closed due to financial hardship, and Catholic students then had to attend the local state high schools, Shoalhaven High School and Nowra High School, with some families opting to send their children to the Catholic boarding school in the Southern Highlands, Chevalier College. For twenty years local Catholic families would be without a secondary Catholic school. Local parishioners made efforts to re-establish a secondary school for the youth of the region; their efforts, with the support of Monsignor John Purcell, were largely responsible for the initial stages of development of St John's High School. St John the Evangelist High School was founded in 1990. The first principal was Sr Carmel Bainbridge. The Sisters of the Good Samaritan had worked in the Nowra Parish since 1893, particularly in the area of the Catholic Education in St Michael's School and State Schools of the region. The Good Samaritans were founded in 1857 by Archbishop John Bede Polding to work with the female convict women, initially, and then moved into the field of Catholic Education generally. The Concept of the gospel parable of the Good Samaritan focuses on Christian Ministry with special emphasis on compassion - a characteristic which expresses itself in relating to persons in the reality of their situation. Polding's patron saint was St John the Evangelist, and as a Benedictine monk he adapted to the rule of St Benedict for the Good Samaritan Congregation; the Benedictine motto is ''pax'' the Latin word for "peace". The official feast day for the school is that of St John the Evangelist which is celebrated on 27 December each year. Since this falls during the summer school holidays, the feast day is celebrated near Pentecost. St John the Evangelist High School is a Diocesan Catholic, co-educational secondary school whose purpose is to provide a Catholic education for students years 7 to 12. The School serves the Shoalhaven and surrounding regions. 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 John the Evangelist Catholic High School, Nowra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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