Denomination Roman Catholic Principal Ms Anne Fry Phone +61 2 9368 1611 Gender Single-sex education | Established 1858 Staff ~63 Founded 1858 | |
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Type Private, Day and Boarding Motto Latin: Scientia cum Religione
("Religion and Knowledge united") Address Rockwall Cres, Potts Point NSW 2011, Australia Similar St Vincent's Private Hospital, Sceggs Darlinghu, Waverley College, St Aloysius' College, St Andrew's Cathedral Profiles | ||
St vincent s college potts point
St Vincent's College (colloquially known as Vinnies), is a Roman Catholic, secondary, boarding and day school for girls, located in Victoria Street, Potts Point, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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The college is one of Australia's oldest Catholic girls' schools, founded by the Sisters of Charity as a co-educational primary school in 1858, and celebrated its sesquicentenary in 2008. St Vincent's College follows St Irenaeus' dictum that "the Glory of God is the human person fully alive", and follows the spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola. St Vincent's has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 680 girls in Years 7 to 12, including 140 boarders.
St Vincent's is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).
History
St Vincent's College was founded as the Victoria Street Roman Catholic School, by the Sisters of Charity in 1858, a year after the sisters established St Vincent's Hospital at the same site. Originally a co-educational primary school, the school reopened as St Vincents College, a secondary, fee-paying, private, independent school in May 1882, after the hospital's relocation to the neighbouring suburb of Darlinghurst. In 2008 St Vincent's College celebrated its 150th anniversary, or sesquicentenary.