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Nagle College

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Established
  
1958

Grades
  
7-12

Colour(s)
  
Green and yellow

Number of students
  
950

Principal
  
Mr. Neville Powles

Enrolment
  
950+

Phone
  
+61 3 5152 6122

Founded
  
1958

Affiliations
  
Presentation Sisters, Salesians of Don Bosco, Roman Catholic Church

Address
  
Hope Ave, Bairnsdale VIC 3875, Australia

Motto
  
Luceat Lux Vestra 'Let your light shine'

Similar
  
Bairnsdale Secondary College, Gippsland Grammar, Bairnsdale Primary School, Advance TAFE, Bairnsdale West Primary S

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Nagle College is a Catholic Secondary School in Bairnsdale in the East Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.

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Background and Location

Nagle College is a Catholic Regional College, established in 1958 to provide a Catholic Secondary Education for the families in the parishes of East Gippsland.

The College was founded by the Presentation Sisters who provided the leadership of the College until 1975. They named the school after their patron Nano Nagle. Mr Rod Nicholson was Principal from 1976 until 1988. The Salesians of Don Bosco took responsibility for the College in 1990.

From its beginnings in Francis Street the school has grown and developed, including moving to the current site on the western edge of the town in 1979.

House system

There are Seven different houses that exist at Nagle College. Bosco house is the newest house, added in the late 1990s when student numbers increased.

The houses are as follows:

  •      Avila House (yellow) - Teresa of Ávila Patron
  •      Bosco House (white) - John Bosco Patron
  •      Chisholm House (magenta) - Caroline Chisolm
  •      MacKillop House (orange)(originally brown) - Mary MacKillop Patron
  •      Newman House (red) - John Henry Newman Patron
  •      Polding House (blue) - Bede Polding Patron
  •      Xavier House (green) - Francis Xavier Patron
  • References

    Nagle College Wikipedia