Mount Carmel College, Rosewater

Mount Carmel College
Address
3 Newcastle Street Rosewater SA 5013 Adelaide , South Australia Australia
Information
Motto	Caritas et dignitas (Love and dignity)
Established	1927
Principal	Mrs Jane Iwanowitsch
Grades	8-12
Colour(s)	Brown, Yellow, Blue
Newspaper	News @ The Mount
Affiliation	Catholic school
Website	mtcarmel.adl.catholic.edu.au

Mount Carmel College is a Catholic secondary school located in Rosewater, South Australia. It was established in 1927 by the Marist Brothers where it was an all boys school until December 1966. In February 1967 the Sisters of St Joseph transferred the all girls school from the Pennington Terrace School to the present site of Mount Carmel College and in 1983 the school became a co-educational institution.

History

Although officially founded in 1927, the history of Mount Carmel College extends back to 1867 when the Sisters of St Joseph opened a primary school in Dale Street, Port Adelaide. This was a co-educational school and from the 1880s secondary school classes were conducted, along with primary school classes. Among the subjects taught were Latin, French and music .

In 1897 the Marist Brothers opened a school in Port Adelaide with both primary and secondary classes. This was the first Marist Brothers' school in South Australia and the school remained in Port Adelaide until 1927 when the building at 33 Newcastle Street, Rosewater was completed..

The land in Rosewater on which the school is built was originally owned by the Church of England and was set aside for St Peters' College. However, the property was exchanged for land at Bowden in a deal between the Catholic and Anglican Archbishops of Adelaide at the time.

The foundation stone of Mount Carmel Boy's School was laid on 28 June 1926 and the building was completed in 1927. Like the original Port Adelaide school, both primary and secondary studies were taught and for a time the school was a commercial high school, with emphasis on commercial studies.

As the Great Depression ended, the number of students began to increase and by the 1950s there were over 300 students enrolled at the school. However, during the 1960s the number of students drastically declined and in December 1966 the school closed down.

During this time, three girls' secondary schools had been established in the area, including the original Sisters of St Joseph school in Port Adelaide. As a way to centralise these three schools, the Mount Carmel Girls Secondary School was established on Pennington Terrace (the site of the current Mount Carmel Primary School) in 1940. During the 1950s and 1960s the large number of migrants to the area saw a rapid increase in enrolments at the school, so when the Marist Brothers' school closed down in 1966, it was decided that the girls' secondary school should be moved from Pennington Terrace to the current site of Mount Carmel College. This move happened early in 1967 and the school opened in February that year.

In 1983 the school became a co-educational institution for the first time in its history.

Principals

The entrance to Mount Carmel College in 2006.

This is a list of all the previous principals of Mount Carmel College from 1967 to the present.

• 1967-1968 — Sr Charlotte
• 1969-1971 — Sr Mary Theorist
• 1972-1976 — Sr Joan Evans
• 1977-1980 — Sr Jude Dundon
• 1981-1988 — Sr Joan Barry
• 1989-1993 — Mr Peter Daw
• 1994-1995 — Mr Tony Lowes
• 1996-2005 — Sr Josephine Dubiel
• 2006-present — Mrs Jane Iwanowitsch

Administration

Mount Carmel College is a Catholic systemic school and as such it falls under the direction of the South Australian Commission for Catholic Schools. This means that the College is governed and administered by the College Board and the Administration Team which are directly answerable to the Catholic Education Office. Since the College has for the greater part of its more recent history been a Josephite school, it still retains a Josephite connection and the Sisters of St Joseph maintain a presence on the College Board and share responsibility for the appointment, support and review of the College principals.

Developments

Recent building projects and work on the school include:

• 1992: Mary MacKillop Special Education Unit completed
• 1995: Environmental Studies building refurbished and Land acquisition program approved
• 1997: Physical Education Laboratory, Science Laboratory, Tutorial and Study Room built
• 1998: Canteen, Undercroft, Year 11 classrooms built and all transportable buildings removed
• 1999: Air conditioning completed
• 2001: Staff Car Park, Lawn and Hard play area next to Year 8 rooms established
• 2002: Federation Garden extended and Courts resurfaced
• 2006: Staff prep area extended, new transportable classrooms erected
• 2007: Two further transportables erected
• 2008: Even more transportable buildings erected - this time in the Federation Garden
• 2009: Palm fronds removed from trees in preparation for annual Open Night

Cervical Cancer Vaccine

Girls at Mount Carmel College were the first to receive the new Australian-made Cervical Cancer Vaccine on the second of April, 2007. The vaccine prevents over 70% of cervical cancers. Australia's former Minister for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott, was present to launch the vaccination programme.