Clontarf Aboriginal College
| Clontarf Aboriginal College | |
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Waterford, WA Australia |
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| Coordinates | 32°00′56″S 115°53′34″E / 32.015618°S 115.892823°ECoordinates: 32°00′56″S 115°53′34″E / 32.015618°S 115.892823°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, Co-educational |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1901 |
| Enrolment | ~300 |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue & Light Blue |
| Website | www.clontarf.wa.edu.au |
Clontarf Aboriginal College is the current name of a former orphanage for boys operated by the Christian Brothers organisation in the Perth suburb of Waterford in Western Australia. Opening in 1901, the facility has been used for a number of purposes since, most notably as an orphanage but also as a convent and as a day and boarding school. During World War II it was used as a training school for the Royal Australian Air Force. Through its history, it has housed and educated day boys and boarders, orphans, vagrants, children from disadvantaged families, child migrants and Aboriginal children. Since 1986 it has been a co-educational Aboriginal College for Indigenous Australian youth aged between 15 and 18 years. From 2000 the College has also been the centre for the Clontarf Football Academy run by the Clontarf Foundation a program of Australian rules football for indigenous youth.
The estate is situated on the northern banks of the Canning River between the river and Manning Road, east of Elderfield Road. Curtin University of Technology is nearby. It was expanded several times over the years through purchases of adjoining land and ultimately occupied over 80 hectares (200 acres). From 1981 large portions of the property were subdivided and became the residential suburb of Waterford.
The name Clontarf comes from Clontarf (Irish: Cluain Tarbh, meaning "meadow of the bull"), a wealthy suburb in the north-east of Dublin, Ireland, reflecting the origins of the founder of the Christian Brothers, Edmund Ignatius Rice, as well as many of the early Christian brothers. Clontarf, Ireland, was the site of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 which saw the defeat of the Vikings by Brian Boru, a High King of Ireland from 1002 to 1014.
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