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Kogarah Kogarah () is a suburb of Southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Kogarah is located 14 kilometres (9 miles) south-west of the Sydney central business district and is considered to be the centre of the St George area. Loca ...

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day school , educational_authority = New South Wales Department of Education , district = , gender = Girls , established = , principal = Betty Romeo , grades = 7- 12 , grades_label = Years , colours = Red, white and Navy Blue , website = , campus = Urban , free_label = Brother School , free_text = Sydney Technical High School , enrolment = , enrolment_as_of = 2021 St George Girls' High School (SGGHS) is a government-funded single-sex academically selective

day school for girls, located in

, in the southern suburbs of

, Australia. Established in 1916 and operated by the New South Wales Department of Education, the school currently caters for approximately 920 students from Year 7 to

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. For first year entry, students must sit the

Selective High Schools Test Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education that accept their students based upon their academic merit. Each year, approximately 15,000 Year 6 students acr ...

and are offered admission into the school based on academic merit.

History

In June 1913 it was decided that Kogarah would be a suitable site for a new high school. On 31 October 1914, the land occupied by the cottage ‘Harrow Villa’ was purchased from its owner. This cottage with portable buildings added became the temporary St George Girls High School. St George Girls High School officially opened in February 1916 with 143 students and nine teachers.

Annual events

Important annual events on the St George calendar include: * Swimming and Athletics Carnivals * The Walkathon * SRC Week * Drama Night, showcasing the talents of Drama students * Senior Drama Night, showcasing talents of Year 12 Drama * 'Inspired' Night, a textiles and design fashion parade * The Summer Music Festival in conjunction with the Multicultural Food Festival * Gala Music Festival * SRC School Dance (with Sydney Technical High School) * The "Listen" concerts, which include the Stage Band, Orchestra and Concert Band * The "Sing" concerts, which comprise the Vocal Ensemble and the Singing Tutorial girls

Organisations

The School has four school organisations which provide support to the school: * ''P & C Association'' - St George Girls High School Parents & Citizen' Association takes an active interest in the welfare and education of students. When possible, they have a guest speaker. * ''St Georgians -'' The St Georgians is the association for ex-students of the school to meet regularly. * ''Prefects -'' At St George Girls High School, there are 15 School Prefects, of them are two Vice Captains and one School Captain. These students are nominated and voted by their fellow Year 12 peers and lead in the planning events for their cohort and the wider school community. * ''Student Representative Council (SRC) -'' St George Girls High School has an active Student Representative Council (SRC). Students from each year elect representatives from their class to represent them at SRC meetings. The SRC consists of four Year 11 students selected by the students of the school. In the past, the SRC has participated in charities such as Daffodil Day, Jeans for Genes day and Pink Ribbon day as well as fundraising activities such as the Walkathon, Gelato Days and Mufti Days. Money raised from

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activities is used for improvements within the school. Recent SRC projects include planting of trees for shade, purchasing teaching resources in the school and providing additional seating arrangements around the school quadrangles.

Associated schools

Although St George Girls High School is an all-girls school, Sydney Technical High School is often referred to as their male counterpart. Being the 'Brother School' of St George Girls High School, Sydney Technical High School often engages in joint SRC fundraising activities. Examples of these include SRC school dances, the St George vs. Sydney Tech netball game during SRC week, as well as P&C meetings. Each schools' ISCF Group (called Lighthouse from St George and SALT from Sydney Tech) regularly join to become Lightly Salted.

Notable alumnae

Notable alumnae are referred to as ''Old Girls.''

Entertainment, media and the arts

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- columnist for ''

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'', commentator, playwright and author *

Susien Chong Susien Chong is an Australian fashion designer and a co-founder of the Sydney-based fashion label Lover. Chong grew up in Sydney, attending St George Girls' High School, Kogarah. She obtained a degree in design from the University of Technolog ...

- Fashion designer (''

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'' label) *

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- ABC journalist * Brenna Harding - Logie Award winning Actress. Has been in several TV shows, including '' Puberty Blues'', '' My Place'', and ''

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'' * Linda Marigliano - Radio host on national radio station Triple J, presenting the ''Good Nights'' program. *

Elizabeth Minchin Elizabeth Hume Minchin is an Australian classicist and former professor of classics at the Australian National University (ANU). Until 2014 she was one of the two editors of ''Antichthon'', the journal of the Australasian Society for Classical St ...

- Professor of classics at the Australian National University *

Christina Stead Christina Stead (17 July 190231 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a mem ...

- Australian novelist. Stead's novel, ''

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'' was heralded as a forgotten 20th-century "masterpiece" by American author

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'', who compared her to

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. * Fiona Wright - award-winning essayist and poet

Medicine and sciences

Patricia Brennan Patricia Anne Brennan AM (15 April 1944 – 6 March 2011) was an Australian medical doctor and a prominent campaigner for the ordination of women in the Anglican Church of Australia. She became a member of the Order of Australia in 1993. E ...

- was a medical missionary, wife and mother, television broadcaster, forensic physician, haematology registrar at Prince of Wales Hospital, physician and surgeon at the Sudan Interior Mission Hospital in Jos, Nigeria, and Galmi surgical and obstetric hospital in Niger. * Julie Campbell - a cell biologist and is recognised as a world leader in the field of smooth muscle biology. * Lady Rita Cornforth - a chemist and the wife of Nobel Prize recipient Sir John Warcup Cornforth. They collaborated on a total of 41 papers that focused on enzyme stereochemistry. * Mary Gwenyth (Gwen) Fleming - one of the first women Doctors to pass through the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1939. Fleming was the first female Major in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and her specialty was thoracic medicine. In 1945 Gwen was one of the first women admitted as a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and in 1973, she was made a Fellow. * Jean Sinclair (Clair) Isbister - a pioneer in the development of hospital and outpatient services for mothers and babies, particularly in the area of childbirth practices and post-natal care. Her epidemiological studies at the Royal North Shore Hospital and Tresillian led to the establishment of numerous programs for mothers, babies and the care of children.

Sports

Michelle Ford Michelle Jan Ford (born 15 July 1962) is an Australian former long-distance freestyle swimming, freestyle and butterfly swimming, butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle, bronze in the 200-met ...

- Olympic gold medallist (freestyle swimming) in the Moscow 1980 games

References

External links

St George Girls High School website

Top 50 Secondary Schools in NSW
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