Saint Ignatius College, South Australia

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Saint Ignatius College
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Motto Deo Gloria
To The Greater Glory Of God
Established 13 February 1951
Type Independent secondary
Affiliations Roman Catholic, Jesuit
Chairman Dr. D. Cehic
Headmaster Fr. Robert Davoren, Junior School headmaster is Mr. W. Armitage
Founder Fr. Thomas Perrott
Chaplain Fr. C. Horvat
Rector Fr. Mullins
Faculty Unknown
Students Approximately 1300 (750 at the Senior Campus)
Grades R–12
Location Adelaide, SA, Australia
Campus Norwood for R-6 (often referred to by students and staff as the 'Junior School' and Athelstone for 7-12 (often referred to by students and staff as the 'Senior School'
Colours Blue, Red, Yellow
School hymn Deo Gloria
Website www.ignatius.sa.edu.au

Saint Ignatius' College is an independent, Reception to Year 12 school in Adelaide, South Australia.

The College has two campuses, the Junior school (R-Y6) in Norwood and the Senior campus (Y7-Y12) in Athelstone.

Saint Ignatius College is part of the international network of Jesuit schools which begun in Messina, Sicily in 1548.

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Saint Ignatius College began in Queen Street, Norwood, South Australia in 1951, on the site of the old Marist school. The catalyst was Archbishop Matthew Beovich's[1] increasing interest in commencing more formalised Catholic schooling in Adelaide. Thus the Jesuit boys' day school was established. The initial intake was from Grade 3 onwards. (Students prior to this year level were educated at Loreto College, St Joseph's Memorial School (the local Parish school), or the local state schools.)

In 1967, a secondary campus was opened at Athelstone, in the then outer suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. From 1972, the school accepted Kildare College enrolments from girls wanting to complete their secondary studies. (At that stage, Kildare offered education up to Year 10). In 1996, the school changed to offer co-educational enrolments from Reception to Year 12, the first Jesuit school in the world to do so.

The school helps out children with disabilities who attend Saint Patrick's Special School which is in Toorak Gardens. The school helped Saint Patrick's Special School procure a bus through a 1000km relay fundraiser and students are part of 'buddy classes' with the students at the special school.

In 2005 St. Ignatius and Mercedes College had their inaugural 'Intercollegiate Sports Carnival' or more commonly known as just 'Intercol'. Each year the senior years of both colleges participate in eight sports for seventeen shields in the winter season, the school that wins the majorty of the shields is the overall winner of the Carnival and 'Mercedes-Ignatius' Shield.

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Media, Entertainment & The Arts
Politics & The Law
Sport

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  • Most scenes in the movie 2:37 were filmed on location at the College.

[edit] References

  1. ^ St. Ignatius' College Year Books, 1970-1972, ed. F.X. Wallace, S.J., Manresa Court, Athelstone, South Australia
  2. ^ State of Injustice, Robert N. Moles, Lothian Books, Melbourne, Australia, 1994.

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Members of the Independent Schools Sport Association, South Australia