Solway College
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| Address | |
| Fleet Street, Masterton, New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 40°57′32″S 175°37′42″E / 40.95889°S 175.62833°ECoordinates: 40°57′32″S 175°37′42″E / 40.95889°S 175.62833°E |
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| Type | State Integrated Girls Secondary Years 7-13 |
| Motto | Timor dei principium sapientiae Being in awe of God is the beginning of wisdom. |
| Established | 1916 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 242 |
| Principal | Elizabeth Rogerson |
| School roll | 144(February 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 7O |
| Website | solwaycollege.school.nz |
Solway College is a girls' boarding school in Masterton, New Zealand. It is an integrated school for girls from Year 7 to Year 13 (Forms 1 to 7) with a limited number of day girl places. The College was founded in 1916.
The College was established in 1916 by the Reverend Laurence Thompson and his wife Mrs Marion Thompson who was also the first principal. The aim was, and remains, to provide an excellent, progressive education based on Christian teaching and values, an education that developed the whole person: intellectual, physical, cultural and spiritual.
The Solway property was a colonial homestead sited in a 100 acres (0.40 km2) originally owned by the Donald family who had first settled the area in 1877. The 80 acres (320,000 m2) adjacent to what would become Solway College were purchased by the Masterton A & P Society for a showground leaving some 18 acres (73,000 m2) planted in heritage trees - silver fir, deodar, spruce, larches, lime, weeping ash, cypress lawsoniana, photinia, juniper, Californian redwood and poplar. A large number of shrubs and native New Zealand bush completed the beautifully laid out grounds. The homestead was constructed entirely from heart totara. The absentee owner at that time was Mrs J. McMaster and the property had been used as a military convalescent hospital.
The school opened in February 1916 with a roll of nineteen boarders and two day girls, followed by 61 pupils the year after, and 100 by 1918. In that year, the school was incorporated as 'Solway Girls' College, Masterton, Inc.' To this point, nervousness about financial commitment with a world at war had meant the school had opened on the basis of a lease with a five-year right of purchase. The lease had been guaranteed by prominent members of the Wairarapa business and church communities.
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