Established 1897 Enrolment ~1000 Founded 1897 Principal Steve Byrne | Years 10-12 Phone +61 8 8294 2988 Gender Mixed-sex education Colors Dark blue, Light blue | |
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Type Independent, Day & Boarding Motto Latin: Virtus Ubique Vincit
("Courage Conquers All") Denomination Roman Catholic
(Marist) Address 195-235 Brighton Road, Somerton Park SA 5044, Australia Sister schools Sacred Heart College Middle School, Marymount College, Adelaide Similar Sacred Heart College, Immanuel College, Cabra Dominican College, Marymount College, Scotch College Adelaide | ||
Sacred Heart College is an Australian Catholic school teaching in the Marist tradition in the Adelaide beachside suburbs of Somerton Park, South Australia and Mitchell Park. The college is a coeducational school from Years 10 to 12.
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Sacred Heart is known for its Australian rules football teams, cultivating thorough athletes since its establishment. It has an annual Intercollegiate match against its cross-town rival, Rostrevor College, which is a notable event on the South Australian sports calendar.
The school also has an annual exchange with Assumption College in Kilmore, Victoria which entails music and performing arts performances, debating, a social and several sporting competitions.
History
In 1897 the Marist Brothers of Adelaide were formally invited by Archbishop John O'Reily to establish an all-boys school in Port Adelaide. The first principal of the school was Brother Stephen DeBourg- the college recognising his achievements through the dedication of the Brother Stephen DeBourg Performing Arts Centre in 2008. Due to the increasing popularity of the school, Sacred Heart High was relocated to the current site at Somerton Park; it was subsequent to two previous changes in location within the first ten years of its commencement. In 1914 the Marist Brothers had acquired Paringa Hall in Somerton Park, the residence of a wealthy pastoralist James Francis Cudmore who had died in 1912. The school was renamed Sacred Heart College and established extensive facilities for its period as well as the notable college chapel. During its erection the college provided schooling for day students and boarders from Years 4 to Leaving Honours.
In 1977 Sacred Heart College became part of the SW Region scheme and evolved into a senior college catering for the final three years of study. Today, Sacred Heart College Senior is a coeducational senior college for approximately 1,000 students in Years 10 – 12 and continuously upholds the largest graduating class in South Australia.
Campus
The college is situated on three grounds in the suburb of Somerton Park on Brighton Road, 13 kilometres from the Adelaide CBD. The campus' facilities consist of three ovals, nine tennis courts, three basketball courts, a hockey pitch and seven cricket nets.
The school has seen extensive redevelopments of its facilities. This has constituted the development of the Marcellin Learning Centre and the Brother Stephen DeBorgue Performing Arts Centre which includes music rooms and a multifunctional arts centre. The college is undertaking plans to overhaul Sacred Heart College's War Memorial Oval; the redevelopments which are due to conclude in 2014/15 will house classrooms, a gymnasium, change rooms and a 1000-seat assembly hall.
The campus is most widely recognised for its stately heritage architecture. Central to the college is "Paringa Hall", named as such to recognise the Cudmore family's first largest sheep station in the Riverland. It has been defined as one of South Australia's most outstanding late 19th-century family homes remaining upstanding. Designed by a previous Mayor of Adelaide and notable architect, engineer and businessman Edmund William Wright, also noted for designing the Adelaide Town Hall and Parliament House, Adelaide, the building's opulence speaks of great wealth.
Located east of the campus is the Sacred Heart Memorial Chapel, opened and blessed in 1924 as a memorial to the Old Collegians who lost their lives in the First World War. The college also embodies heritage structures located throughout the college, including the century old Score Board and Memorial Entrance.
Also a part of the college campus includes a technology centre and St Paul's which is currently in redevelopment, each located within the school precinct.
House system
As with many schools, Sacred Heart College uses a house system through which students participate in intra-school competitions and activities.
The college currently has ten houses:
Notable alumni
AFL footballers
Feeder schools
Controversy
The college came to media attention in August 2013 when it was reported that Cory Gregson, a player within its first XVIII was not permitted to make his League debut with the Glenelg Football Club due to him being required to play in an inter-school game against Rostrevor College.