Saint Ursula's College, Kingsgrove

St Ursula's College Kingsgrove
Location
Kingsgrove, New South Wales
Australia
Coordinates 33°56′28″S 151°06′12″E / 33.941001°S 151.103337°E / -33.941001; 151.103337Coordinates: 33°56′28″S 151°06′12″E / 33.941001°S 151.103337°E / -33.941001; 151.103337
Information
Type Catholic Girls' High School
Motto Serviam
Established 1957 [1]
Principal Mrs Mary Leask
Campus On Site
Colour(s) Green, Navy Blue and White
Website Official School Webpage

St Ursula's College Kingsgrove is a systemic Catholic secondary school for girls, located in Kingsgrove, Sydney, Australia.

History

The Ursuline Order was founded by Saint Angela de Merici in Brescia, Italy in 1535. Saint Angela Merici named the order after Saint Ursula, patron saint of the Sorbonne in Paris and also the patron saint of education. The Ursuline Sisters came to the Kingsgrove Parish in 1949 when they were invited to take over St Bernadette's School at Bexley South from the Sisters of Mercy. The sisters lived at the convent at Ashbury and travelled to Bexley North each day.

Within a few years they had established a convent at 69 Caroline Street, Kingsgrove (the present St Ursula's College administration building), and in 1953 they opened a new school, Our Lady of Fatima Primary School.

St Ursula's College was opened in 1957 with an enrollment of fifty-six girls in first form. Fifty-two new students came to the College the following year and by 1959 there were 200 students enrolled. The College has continued to grow, with a current enrollment of over 1000 students and more than eighty teachers and twenty ancillary staff.

The school was ranked 63rd in the 2016 New South Wales HSC rankings, and was the second best performing school in the Sydney Archdiocese.[2]

Notable Alumini

References

  1. ↑ "Saint Ursula's College: History". Saint Ursula's College. Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2008.
  2. ↑ Eva Tejszerski, "Kingsgrove school celebrates success", St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, 19 February 2012.
  3. ↑ alex_bernhardt (16 August 2017). "Ahhh bring back 2007... When all that mattered was the size of your quiff, how orange your fake tan was and whether your hem was short enough to show off your pins! 😂🙋👯". Instagram. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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