Saint Ignatius College Geelong
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Drysdale, Victoria Australia |
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| Coordinates | 38°11′21″S 144°33′24″E / 38.18917°S 144.55667°ECoordinates: 38°11′21″S 144°33′24″E / 38.18917°S 144.55667°E |
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| Type | Coeducational 7 to 12 |
| Motto | Faith Learning Community |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic, Jesuit |
| Established | 1997: founded at Drysdale and re-founded as St Ignatius College in 2007 |
| Principal | Michael Exton |
| Enrolment | Approximately 1250 (2017) |
| Slogan | Amare et Servire |
| Website | http://www.ignatius.vic.edu.au/ |
Saint Ignatius College is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary college located in the town of Drysdale, Victoria, Australia. The college is the only coeducational catholic secondary college in the Geelong region.
Founded in rural Drysdale in 1997, the name 'Saint Ignatius College' (for Ignatius of Loyola) was not applied to the school until 2007, when the college became a Jesuit Partner School and formed a relationship with Xavier College in Melbourne. Announced in November 2006, before this time it had been the Drysdale campus of 'Catholic Regional College', which consolidated all operations to the campus in 2005.
Saint Ignatious College Geelong is the only secondary Catholic school on the Bellarine Peninsula.
Catholic Regional College was formed in 1991 as an amalgamation of female-only Goold College and the male only St. Mary's Technical School, both located in inner city Geelong. In 1992 the College became fully coeducational teaching years 7 to 12, with the junior campus (years 7 - 9) at the St. Mary's site in Yarra Street, and the senior campus (years 10 - 12) at the Goold College site in Fenwick Street.
At the Yarra Street campus a new Home Economics centre, Canteen, and two additional classroom, along with extensions to the Engineering building. At Fenwick Street refurbishment was carried out to older buildings, including the science labs, art rooms, library and administration offices. Due to the Yarra Street campus having a heritage as a technical school, the majority of the 'hands on' woodworking, metalworking and engineering subjects were taught there, with senior students required to walk the three blocks between campuses.
A third campus was opened at Drysdale in 1997, initially catering for years 7 and 8 only. This campus operated separately from the two 'City' campuses, with sports days and whole of school masses being the main links for students at the two campuses.
In 1999 the 'St Thomas' campus at Drysdale had 189 students and offered the Year 10 program to students for the first time. It had five composite Year 7/8 home rooms, two Year 9 home rooms, and one Year 10 homeroom. The same year the city campuses each had around 250 students each. Also in 1999 the school introduced ties and blazers as part of the uniform for incoming students, expanding to all year levels in 2000.
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