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Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney
The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC Sydney) is an independent school, independent Presbyterian Church of Australia, Presbyterian Single-sex school, single-sex Pre-school education, early learning, Primary school, primary and Secondary school, secondary Day school, day and Boarding school, boarding school for girls, located in Croydon, New South Wales, Croydon, an Inner West (Sydney), inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school has a selective education, non-selective enrolment policy for all years except Year Eleven (School), Year 11, and caters for approximately 1,250 girls from age four (Branxton Reception (School), Reception) to age eighteen (Year 12), including 65 boarders. Students attend PLC from all regions of the greater metropolitan area, New South Wales, and overseas. Established in 1888 by the General Assembly (presbyterian church), General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, Presbyterian Church of NSW, PLC is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shubra Hall
Shubra Hall is a heritage-listed former semi-rural suburban estate and mansion residence and now administration building for school purposes at Boundary Street in the Sydney suburb of Croydon, Municipality of Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Albert Bond and built from 1869 to 1888 in the Victorian Second Empire architectural style. It is also known as Presbyterian Ladies' College, PLC Croydon and Hordernville. The property is owned by the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 19 December 2014. History Shubra Hall is located on part of granted to Captain Thomas Rowley on 9 August 1803 ( Burwood Estate) and on part of granted to Augustus Alt, Surveyor General to the Colony ( Ashfield Park Estate). These two grants covered most of Burwood and Croydon. Thirteen acres and two roods of land were consolidated under a single Certificate of TitleVol 70 Fol24 on 4 August 1868 in the name of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior School Heads Association Of Australia
The Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA) formerly Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), is an incorporated body representing the heads of independent primary schools in Australia. Officially established in September 1952, the Association is broken into state branches, with six offices across Australia. The organisation currently has a membership of nearly 380 Full Members, 60 Associate and Life Members and 23 Overseas Members. Combined, the member schools employ around 6,000 people, and are responsible for educating about 100,000 primary aged children. History The IPSHA evolved largely from informal gatherings of New South Wales headmasters, which called itself the Junior Schools' Conference. The Organisation was established in 1952, when a conference was held at Cranbrook School, Sydney, where a constitution was agreed upon for the establishment of the Junior Schools' Conference of Australia. The organisation holds biennial conferences, which a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protestant
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to be growing Criticism of the Catholic Church, errors, abuses, and discrepancies within it. Protestantism emphasizes the Christian believer's justification by God in faith alone (') rather than by a combination of faith with good works as in Catholicism; the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by Grace in Christianity, divine grace or "unmerited favor" only ('); the Universal priesthood, priesthood of all faithful believers in the Church; and the ''sola scriptura'' ("scripture alone") that posits the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice. Most Protestants, with the exception of Anglo-Papalism, reject the Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
