| Star of the Sea College | |
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| Location | |
| Brighton, Victoria, Australia | |
| Information | |
| Type | Independent, Single-sex, Day school |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic, Presentation Sisters |
| Established | 1883 |
| Chairman | Mr. Vincent Savage |
| Principal | Mrs. Sandra Diafas |
| Enrolment | ~1,000 (7–12) |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue and Red |
| Website | www.star.melb.catholic.edu.au |
Star of the Sea College is an Irish Catholic, secondary, day school for girls, located in Brighton, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Established in 1883 by the Presentation Sisters, the college has a non-selective enrolment policy, and currently caters for approximately 1,000 female students from Years 7 to 12.
Star of the Sea is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),[1] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA),[2] and is a founding member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV).[3]
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Star of the Sea College was founded by the Presentation Sisters in March 1883. The sisters were asked to come to Australia from Ireland by Father James Corbett, and after establishing the first Presentation Convent and school in Victoria at Windsor (now Presentation College Windsor), they moved to Gardenvale (then known as Elsternwick). The Presentation Sisters from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, established Star of the Sea College.
The foundresses, Mother John Byrne and Mother Paul Fay, named the school after Our Lady, 'Star of the Sea' when they moved into a house called "Turret Lodge", which had a clear view of a local bay.[4]
| School Principals | |
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| Year | Principal |
| 2006 - | Sandra Diafas |
| 2005 | Kathy Smith (Acting) |
| 1991 - 2005 | Rosalie Jones |
| 1968-70, 1982-90 | Sr Josepha Dunlop |
| 1972-78, 1980-81 | Sr Paschal Rushford |
| 1971, 1979 | Sr Patricia Carroll |
| 1950-51, 1957, 1960, 1965-67 | Sr Marie Michael Convery |
| 1941-46, 1952–56, 1958-64 | Sr Eymard Temby |
| 1947-49 | Sr Leonard Gartlan |
| 1935-40 | M. Angela Johnston |
| 1919-22, 1929-34 | M. Sebastian Lardi |
| 1923-28 | M. Agnes Keane |
| 1914-19 | M. Magdalen Keogh |
| 1908-13 | M. Aloysius Heenan |
| 1883-1908 | M. John Byrne & M. Paul Fay |
The school has four houses through which students in inter-house competition and other activities. The house system dates back to the 1930s, when principal Mother Angela Johnston formed Nagle (blue), named after founder of the Presentation Sisters Nano Nagle, and Stella (red), named for the Latin word for "star". Two additional houses were created in 1948: Ave (yellow) draws its name from the Latin word (in reference to "Ave Maria"), and Fay (green) is named for one of the school's two founders, Mother Paul Fay.[4]
Named for the Australian war veterans once housed there, ANZAC is Star of the Sea's Year 9 campus. Located in the Kamesburgh Gardens on North Road, Brighton, the forty-room mansion was built in 1874 and presented as a gift to the Repatriation Department in 1919. It served for a time as ANZAC Hostel before the aged care home relocated to an updated facility in 1996. The mansion was then leased by the college, and opened as a Year 9 campus in 1997.[5]
ANZAC retains a close relationship with the hostel, participating in Remembrance Day ceremonies and a "Companions Program" which allows students to engage in weekly visits with the hostel's residents.
The campus has its own system of four houses, each of which are named after well-known battles or military campaigns fought by Australian soldiers: Kokoda, Gallipoli, Long Tan and Tobruk.[4]
Stacella is the name of the college's a cappella choir. Founded in 1996, Stacella is composed of over 120 students from years 7 to 12, and has performed for primary schools, nursing homes, local festivals, service organisations and corporate clients, in addition to five tours of New Zealand. To date, the choir has released five CDs.[4]
The school has a student exchange program for German, Italian and Japanese students. In 2004 they had six German Bavarian girls stay, and twenty Japanese girls from Shibuya high school as part of their Japanese homestay program.[4]
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