Wyvern House
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Stanmore, New South Wales Australia 
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| Type | Independent, Single-sex, Primary Day |
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Latin: In Fide Scientiam (To Our Faith Add Knowledge) |
| Denomination | Uniting Church in Australia |
| Established | 1938 |
| Founder | Philip Le Couteur |
| Headmaster | Ian Holden |
| Enrolment | 478 |
| Colour(s) | Black and White |
| Website | [2] |
Wyvern House, is one of the two single-sex, preparatory day schools for boys of Newington College and is located at 115 Cambridge Street Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia.
Wyvern has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 390 boys from Kindergarten to year 6. The main point of entry is at Kindergarten, where there are 40 students, with another class intake at Year 5.
The Wesleyan Collegiate Institute opened at Newington House, Silverwater, on Thursday 16 July 1863, with 16 students aged from seven years of age - so, Newington College, as the school soon became known, has educated primary school aged boys from its foundation. A bequest, by John Jones, of land at Stanmore, saw the College move to the newly fashionable inner-city suburbs of Sydney in 1880. The Rev Dr Charles Prescott, as President and Headmaster of Newington, wanted to give greater emphasis to preparatory education at the College and by 1903 an identifiable Preparatory School, organisationally separate from the senior school, had been established. It was housed in a small building on the College’s southern boundary. Twenty years after Prescott's arrival at Stanmore a purpose-built prep was first opened. This was made possible by the 1921 bequest of £10,000 by Sir Samuel McCaughey.
By 1937 the McCaughey building was considered inadequate and the then Headmaster, Philip Le Couteur, pushed for the construction of a new building for junior education and he is seen as the founder of the present day Wyvern House. The Old Newingtonian architect Lt Col Alfred Warden VD designed the building and it was inaugurated on 7 October 1938. A major benefactor to the project was Fred Cull and he unveilled a commemorative stone which read: "This House was erected by those who desire for boys a fuller life." The first Wyvern boys started on day one of the new year when an old boy, Sir Percival Halse Rogers, was invited to open the front door with a specially-made gold key.
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