Moreton Bay College
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Manly West, Queensland Australia |
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| Coordinates | 27°28′16″S 153°9′9″E / 27.47111°S 153.15250°ECoordinates: 27°28′16″S 153°9′9″E / 27.47111°S 153.15250°E |
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| Type | Independent, Single-sex, Day school |
| Motto |
Latin: Fortitudine Et Spe (With Courage and Hope) |
| Denomination | Uniting Church |
| Established | 1901 |
| Chairman | Graham Dredge |
| Principal | James Sloman |
| Chaplain | Peter Hobson |
| Staff | ~96 |
| Enrolment | ~1,260 (P–12) |
| Colour(s) | Maroon and gold, with pink often used to represent sporting teams |
| Website | www.mbc.qld.edu.au |
Moreton Bay College is an independent Uniting Church, day school for girls, located in Manly West, an outer suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Established in 1901 as the Moreton Bay Girls' High School, by Alice J. Alison Greene and her sister Anne, the college currently caters for approximately 1,257 students from Preschool to Year 12.
Moreton Bay College is affiliated with the Association of Heads of independent schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), and first became a member of the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association (QGSSSA) in 1941. Its brother school is Moreton Bay Boys' College.
Moreton Bay College was founded in 1901 by Miss Alice J. Alison Greene and her sister Anne, in a school specially designed and built by their father. Its location was in the heart of Wynnum town, on Bay Terrace, bounded by Charlotte and Florence Streets. The school was originally called Moreton Bay Girls' High School and was intended to provide, in addition to classrooms and other rooms, boarding facilities for thirty boarders. The first roll contained six boarders and twenty day scholars.
In 1944, the Greene family handed the school over to the Methodist Church and for a year and a half Miss Elsie Greene was acting headmistress. The Methodist Church gave the school to the Presbyterian and Methodist Schools' Association to administer and they appointed Miss Ellen Christensen in 1946 to the headship. Miss Christensen was the headmistress from 1946 to 1949 but family illness led to her absence, during which time Miss Popple was acting principal. Eventually Mrs Millicent Drewe was appointed and was headmistress from 1950 to 1964.
By 1956 the roll was 150 with twenty-seven candidates for Junior Public Examination. Girls did not sit for Senior until 1959 when there were 167 pupils in all. In 1957, the name was changed to Moreton Bay College, to avoid confusion with the State High School system and to be more in keeping with the college names of the other PMSA schools.
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