Stella Maris College (Manly)

Stella Maris College
Location
Manly, New South Wales Australia
Information
Type	Private, Secondary College (7 - 12)
Motto	In Omnibus Glorificetur Deus (In all things may God be glorified)
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Established	1931
Principal	Elizabeth Carnegie
Staff	approx 200 teachers and support staff
Enrolment	approx 1000
Colour(s)	dark maroon and forest green
Website	http://www.stellamaris.com.au/

Stella Maris College is a congregational Catholic girls school founded by the Good Samaritan Sisters in Sydney, Australia. The college is located in Manly, on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

In 1881 the original house of the newly formed Good Samaritan Sisters was dedicated as Star of the Sea Convent. On the same site, the Industrial School for Girls opened to care for neglected children and orphans. Stella Maris College opened as a school with 33 pupils (including two small boys) from Kindergarten to Intermediate Certificate, in 1931. The school stopped admitting boys in 1942, and in 1944 Stella Maris dropped the offering of the primary section.

The oldest existing building at Stella Maris College is the chapel, which opened in 1888.

Stella Maris has recently landed itself in the limelight with the receiving of the 1st place award in the Sydney open division of the 2011 Rock Eisteddford Challenge, along with numerous other awards. Choreographer Melissa Dunne was unable to comment on her vast success. Her husband Jeremy Dunne, however, unable to hide his pride, simply remarked "Winners are grinners".

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