page_title: St Hilda's School
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: St Hilda's School / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Pikedale Homestead
context_page_description: St Hilda's School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Southport, a central suburb of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
  Established in 1912, St Hilda's has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,250 students from Pre-Preparatory to Year 12, including 160 full and weekly boarders from Years 6 to 12. St Hilda's is the only girls' school in the Gold Coast region. Its brother school is The Southport School, also located in Southport, and the only boys' boarding school in the region.
  The school is a member of the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association, the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australia, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, and the Australian Boarding Schools' Association.
context_section_description: St Hilda's School was founded in 1912, when the Diocese of Brisbane of the Anglican Church of Australia purchased an older school, Goyte-Lea, from Miss Davenport. Goyte-Lea was established prior to Australian federation in the late 19th century. The School was named after the seventh century Abbess of Whitby Saint Hilda. Saint Hilda was said to have turned serpents into stone, and three stone serpents are the emblem of the school's crest.
  The School's first Headmistress was Catherine Bourne, for whom a series of classrooms are named.  The School's motto since establishment is Non nobis solum, Latin for "Not for Ourselves Alone".
  Although always a girls' school, St Hilda's does have 'old boys'. During the Second World War, secondary schools were used as army barracks. In March 1942, St Hilda's evacuated 90 boards to Pikedale homestead near Stanthorpe. The Anglican Church relocated boys from the Church of England Boys' School in Toowoomba, to St Hilda's in April 1942, while St Hildas was also used for a short time by the 135th Medical Regiment. The school returned from Pikedale to Southport in December 1943.
  From 2006 until 2016 Peter Crawley served as the first male principal of the school.
caption: Pikedale Homestead (destroyed by fire in 1963)
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