Loreto College, Marryatville
Loreto College Marryatville is an independent Roman Catholic primary and secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Marryatville, an inner-eastern suburb of Adelaide located about from the Adelaide city centre, in South Australia, Australia. Established in 1905, the school is one of many around the world directed by the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM). It caters for some 1,000 students from Reception to Year 12, including 70 boarders. History. A modest house in Sydenham Road, Norwood, became the first Loreto Convent in Adelaide in 1905. The college opened with five students. Two  years later the nuns bought a larger house on the corner of Eastry Street and The Parade, Norwood. By 1920 it was obvious that a larger establishment was needed to provide for the increasing number of pupils. In December of that year, Loreto moved to its present site when the nuns purchased "The Acacias", on at Marryatville, opening at that location in February 1921. The junior school was housed in the ballroom, the billiard room became the dining room, and the original dining room was converted to a chapel. Senior classes were held in two rooms on the ground floor , and boarders slept on the first floor. The nuns occupied the former servants' quarters. By 1925 the stables were converted into junior school classrooms, and the former ballroom became the chapel in 1946, with the former chapel becoming a dining room for the boarders in 1947. A new wing was opened 27 May 1951 with classrooms downstairs and dormitories for the boarders upstairs. In 1959 a science lab & classrooms were added. College growth. The Junior School was built in 1961, and the Mary Ward wing of the Senior School in 1969. The increasing number of students necessitated new buildings and  facilities, hence the Gymnasium and Art facilities were constructed in 1998, which was the same year that was designated to be the last year that the primary school years being reception new one and need to work all educational and the last year that any boys were present at the college at all. Up until 1998, in the Eastern District there were two all-boys college is being St.Ignatius & Rostrevor in the same approximate time period had started excepting boys and enrolments from reception rather than the third year, thus facilitating the relief of the burden of Loreto college  of having to fill in all the holes that for the major part St.Ignatius up until that point of time had left completely unaddressed + unaccounted for. Best Junior School Administration in the state Award winning was Loreto College in 2000, was quickly followed by the award winning "Stage 3" project, which included the building of new Senior School classrooms, and the refurbishment of existing buildings, which was completed during 2001. In 2005, four new Middle school classrooms were built in the Junior School to house Year 7 students and Chinese language classes. In conjunction with Montessori, the Loreto  Bapthorpe Early Learning Centre (co-educational) was added in the latter half of 2005, and was operational from the beginning of 2006. Out of School Hours care, the new Portrush Road wall, car parking and landscaping were also developed in 2005. A Hospitality and Food Technology Centre was opened in 2006 to deliver and expand curriculum offerings in that area. In 2007 a new Boarding Precinct Development and the St Gertrude's Music Centre were opened, and in 2010 the St Anne's Performing Arts Centre was opened. Houses. Similarly to the other Loreto schools throughout Australia, Loreto Marryatville has  four houses. Students are allocated to different houses which they represent at the school's annual events including the Swimming Carnival, Athletics Carnival, and Performing Arts Festival.