Church+of+England+Girl's+High+School

//A mansion becomes a girls' school (1990) // //Geelong Advertiser // //Souvenier Edition No. 3 // //1903 Page 19 // ||  ||
 * //The church of England Girls Grammer School was opened by Lady Wrixon in 1906 on febuary the 13th. The hermatige mansion in Pakington Street, Newtown is the new home for the girls school. The building had origanaly been built for George Armatage and was built by Geelong architect Edward Prowse. The mansion was bought for £6000 and around the same was spent for wiring and furnishing the school. The school was the first in Ausatralia to have uniforms and compulsory team sports. The first headmistress was Miss Elsie Morres was there until 1933. The school had different houses for team sports. There names were Austin, Morres, School and Volum. Some subjects were craft and home economics to teach girls how to be good wives. In 1960 the school got a middle school campus called kroma house in highton and in 1973 it mixed wth the Clyde school and became Geelong Grammer school in Corio and is still here today.// || [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tlJHLtfYJ4A/SblyQgBBZHI/AAAAAAAAAkM/MgEqvQ7AEac/s400/800px-Hermitagegeelong.jpg width="400" height="256" caption="Church of England, Girls' High School"]] ||
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