Denomination Roman Catholic, IBVM Colour(s) Saxon Blue & Gold Phone +61 8 8334 4200 Founded 1905 | Established 1905 Website www.loreto.sa.edu.au Total enrollment 900 (2010) Colors Yellow, Blue | |
Type Independent, Single-sex, private, Day & Boarding Motto Latin: Maria Regina Angelorum. Cruci Dum Spiro Fido; (Mary, Queen of the Angels. While I live, I believe in the Cross) Similar Pembroke School, Prince Alfred College, Wilderness School, Mary MacKillop College, Rostrevor College Profiles | ||
Loreto College is a private, independent Catholic, day and boarding school for girls, located in Marryatville, an inner-eastern suburb of Adelaide located about 4 km from the Adelaide city centre.
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Established in 1905, the school is one of many around the world directed by the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM). It caters for some 1,000 students from Reception to Year 12, including 70 boarders.
History
A modest house in Sydenham Road, Norwood, became the first Loreto Convent in Adelaide in 1905. The college opened with five students. Two years later the nuns bought a larger house on The Parade, Norwood and Loreto became a boarding school.
By 1920 it was obvious that a larger establishment was needed to provide for the increasing number of pupils. In December of that year, Loreto moved to its present site when the nuns purchased "The Acacias" at Marryatville. The Acacias dates back to the earliest history of South Australia, and is associated with some of the State's great pioneers, including George Fife Angas, Henry Kingscote and Sir Edwin Thomas Smith.
Sir Edwin Smith bought the property in 1878 and added extensively to it. The stables, built by Sir Edwin, housed the entire senior school until 1951. By this time there were more than 200 students at Loreto.
College growth
The Junior School was built in 1961, and the Mary Ward wing of the Senior School in 1969. The increasing number of students necessitated new buildings and facilities, hence the Gymnasium and Art facilities were constructed in 1998, and the Junior School Administration in 2000. The award winning "Stage 3" project, which included the building of new Senior School classrooms, and the refurbishment of existing buildings, was completed during 2001.
In 2005, four new Middle school classrooms were built in the Junior School to house Year 7 students and Chinese language classes. In conjunction with Montessori, the Loreto Bapthorpe Early Learning Centre (co-educational) was added in the latter half of 2005, and was operational from the beginning of 2006. Out of School Hours care, the new Portrush Road wall, car parking and landscaping were also developed in 2005.
A Hospitality and Food Technology Centre was opened in 2006 to deliver and expand curriculum offerings in that area. In 2007 a new Boarding Precinct Development and the St Gertrude's Music Centre were opened, and in 2010 the St Anne's Performing Arts Centre was opened.
Facilities
Facilities include: