Rosebank College is a private, Secondary, Catholic, day school predominantly for girls', located in Five Dock, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Founded in 1867 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, Rosebank currently caters for approximately 540 students with girls' from Years 7 to 12, and co-education in Years 11 and 12. The College welcomed boys into year seven in 2009 and will become completely co-educational from...
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Rosebank College is a private, Secondary, Catholic, day school predominantly for girls', located in Five Dock, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Founded in 1867 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, Rosebank currently caters for approximately 540 students with girls' from Years 7 to 12, and co-education in Years 11 and 12. The College welcomed boys into year seven in 2009 and will become completely co-educational from 2012.
Rosebank College is closely associated with the early history of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of Saint Benedict, an Australian Institute founded by Archbishop Polding in 1857 to care for destitute women in colonial Sydney. Polding himself trained the first Sisters in the Benedictine way of life which he himself had experienced at Downside Abbey in England, but adapted his rule to meet the practical needs of the colony - consoling and instructing those in distress or need. From their first convent in Pitt Street, a site...
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