St Vincent's College (commonly known as Vinnies), is a Roman Catholic, secondary, boarding and day school for girls, located in Potts Point, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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,^[1] and follows the dictum of St Irenaeus that "the Glory of God is the human person fully alive", and has a spirituality based on that of Ignatius of Loyola. St Vincent's has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately for approximately 680 girls in Years 7 to 12,^[2] including 140 boarders.^[3]

St Vincent's is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),^[4] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA),^[3] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA),^[5] and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).^[6]

History

St Vincent's College was founded as the Victoria Street Roman Catholic School, by the Sisters of Charity in 1858. Originally a co-educational primary school, the school reopened as St Vincents College, a secondary, fee-paying Catholic school in May 1882, at its current site in Potts Point.^[7].

Principals

Notable alumni

• Natarsha Belling – Channel 10 newsreader
• Lara Bingle – International Model
• Melinda Gainsford-Taylor – Australian Athlete and Olympian
• Deni Hines – Singer and actress
• Gemma Rice – Founder of the School of St Jude, Tanzania

References

See also

• List of non-government schools in New South Wales
• List of boarding schools

External links

• St Vincent's College website