Asquith Girls High School

Asquith Girls High School
Location
Stokes Avenue
Asquith, New South Wales
Australia
Coordinates 33°41′27.14″S 151°6′46.94″E / 33.6908722°S 151.1130389°E / -33.6908722; 151.1130389Coordinates: 33°41′27.14″S 151°6′46.94″E / 33.6908722°S 151.1130389°E / -33.6908722; 151.1130389
Information
Type Public, Girls, Secondary school
Motto "Learn to live"
Established January 1947 (Hornsby Home Science)
January 1959 (Asquith Girls)[1]
Principal Elizabeth Amvrazis
Enrolment 819 (7–12)
Colour(s) Green and white         
Website Asquith Girls High School

Asquith Girls High School, (abbreviation AGHS) is a public girls' government high school located in the Sydney suburb of Asquith, New South Wales, Australia. It is the sister school of Asquith Boys High School. Established to replace the Hornsby Home Science School in 1959, it is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education with girls from years 7 to 12.

History

In February 1958, the NSW Department of Education acquired a five-acre site in eastern Asquith for a new girls high school to replace the Hornsby Home Science School (established 1947) that was destroyed with other school buildings on Peats Ferry Road in a bushfire in 1957.[2] Asquith Girls High School officially commenced operation from 1 January 1959.[3][4]

YearsPrincipals
A. Hamilton[5]
–2006Dr Kristine Needham[6]
2006–2013Jane Ferris
2013–dateElizabeth Amvrazis, B.Asc. Dip.Ed.

Notable alumnae

  • Micky Green – pop singer
  • Margaret Braakensiek – Medical professional (Dux 1964)[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Asquith Girls High - Cumberland". History of New South Wales government schools. NSW Department of Education. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "NOTIFICATION OF RESUMPTION OF LAND UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1912, AS AMENDED". Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales (26). New South Wales, Australia. 7 March 1958. p. 611. Retrieved 4 May 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "NEW SECONDARY SCHOOLS". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (72). New South Wales, Australia. 25 July 1958. p. 2202. Retrieved 4 May 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Asquith Girls' High School, 1962". Hornsby Shire Recollects. Hornsby Shire Council. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "THE MAGAZINE OF THE FORT STREET GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL" (PDF). Fort Street Girls High School. 1965. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Asquith Girls High School". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 June 2002. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "N.S.W. Student 1000th Migrant in Kuring-gai". Tharunka. 12, (15). New South Wales, Australia. 5 October 1966. p. 7. Retrieved 4 May 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

Further reading

  • Asquith Girls' High School; Duke, Barbara; King, Diane (1966), Asquith girls' High School, G.W. Hall & Co.
  • Dewey, Patricia (2005), A history of Hornsby Home Science Secondary School Pacific Highway Hornsby, P. Dewey
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