| Walford Anglican School for Girls | |
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Latin: Virtute et Veritate
Courage and Truth
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| Hyde Park, South Australia, Australia | |
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| Type | Independent, Single-sex, Day & Boarding |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Established | 1893 |
| Founder | Lydia Adamson |
| Chairman | Pamela Martin |
| Principal | Helen Trebilcock |
| Chaplain | Fr Gary Hillman |
| Staff | ~70[1] |
| Grades | P-12 |
| Enrolment | ~720[1] (2006) |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue, Light Blue & Gold |
| Website | www.walford.net.au/ |
Walford Anglican School for Girls is an independent, Anglican, day and Boarding school for girls, located in Hyde Park, South Australia.
The school is non-selective and caters for approximately 720 students from ELC to Year 12, including 70 boarders.[1]
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Walford was established in 1893 by Lydia Adamson in her family home in Fisher Street, Malvern.
In 1917 Mabel Jewell Baker bought the growing school and moved it to its present site. Baker introduced the Old Scholars' Association, the Prefect system, the Parent Teacher Association and the school motto, Virtute et Veritate. At the end of 1955 when Baker retired, Walford had 450 students.
Walford was incorporated as a Church of England Girls' Grammar School in 1956 with Nina Morrison as Headmistress. She was followed by Helen Reid AM and then Marilyn Haysom. As the school grew, adjacent properties were purchased and building programs was undertaken.
In May 2004 Helen Trebilcock became the seventh Head of Walford and the first to use the title of Principal.
Walford offers all three International Baccalaureate (IB) programs - Primary Years Program, Middle Years Program and the Diploma Program. [2]
On 1 October 2008 the school lost a legal bid to keep its name suppressed in connection with child sex charges against one of its former teachers, Bror Palmen, arguing that it would suffer undue economic hardship if named.[3] Palmen, 59, committed to stand trial in the District Court on 11 sex charges surrounding a series of alleged incidents involving a female student in 2002 and 2003. While removing the suppression order, Magistrate Ackland commended the school for its "robust, prompt, transparent courageous and in every way exemplary" response to the charges.[4] On 27 September 2010, a jury acquitted Palmen of the sex charges.[5]
Walford campus covers an area of 4.7 hectares in a suburban area of Adelaide.
The Walford Reception is located in Walford House, situated at 316 Unley Road, Hyde Park. A car park for visitors is conveniently located on the corner of Unley Road and Fashoda Street or parking is permissible on Unley Road.
Walford offers schooling for girls from Preparatory to Year 12 and boarding for up to 70 students from Year 6 - 12. The Junior School caters for Preparatory to Year 5, Middle School caters for Years 6 to 9 and the Senior School incorporates Years 10 - 12.
All students undertake the PYP and MYP as their basic curriculum and in Years 11 and 12 can choose between the IB Diploma and the South Australian Certificate of Education. The school also provides some VET (Vocational Education Training) subjects.
Zoe Morrison
Amy King
Anne Campbell - Agricultural Scientist.
Margaret Clunies Ross - Professor of English Literature at the University of Sydney.
Anne Crowther - Professor of History; appointed as the first chair at Glasgow University and only the second woman to be appointed to a chair in Scotland.
Anna Steele - Clinical Psychologist. Completed PhD in Clinical Psychology and nominated as a finalist in the 2008 Mental Health Good Outcomes Awards for her innovative work and research in eating disorders.
Joan Claring-Bould - South Australia's first female Anglican Deacon and one of the first women to be ordained an Anglican priest in 1992.
Catriona Barr - Mezzo Soprano.
Taasha Coates - Singer, Songwriter and member of the band The Audreys.
Josephine Jason - Ballet dancer, Artistic Director of Classical Ballet at McDonald College in Sydney and a Director of the Premier State Ballet Youth Company.
Jennifer Cashmore - MHA of the South Australian State Parliament.
Frances Adamson - Australian High Commissioner to China.
Christine Adamson - Senior Queen's Counsel.
Margaret Cleland - First woman in South Australia to achieve a post-graduate award as a Physician.
Pamela Sykes - Molecular Geneticist. Founding fellow of the Faculty of Science in the Royal College of pathologists of Australia.
Elizabeth Thompson - Clinical Geneticist at the Department of Genetic medicine at the Women and Children's Hospital.
Ann Woolcock - Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Sydney.
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