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Ravenswood School for Girls (often referred to as Ravenswood) is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for K-12 girls, situated in Gordon, an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1901 by Mabel Fidler (1871–1960), Ravenswood currently caters for approximately 1100 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, including 20 boarders from Years 10 to 12.〔 The school has been an IB World School since June 2004, and is authorised to offer the IB Diploma Programme.〔 Ravenswood is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia, and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS). ==History== Ravenswood was established with eight students on 28 January 1901, by the first Headmistress, Mabel Fidler, as a non-sectarian, private, day school for girls with preparatory classes for boys. The first classes commenced in a schoolroom erected on the block adjacent to Fidler's home, "Ravenswood", in Henry Street, Gordon. The school remains on this site. Fidler retired from Ravenswood in 1925, a year after the school was purchased by the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood, thus becoming a school of the Methodist Church. Subsequently, the school name was changed to Ravenswood Methodist Ladies' College.〔 At this time, Ravenswood was the largest non-residential, private secondary school in Sydney, with an enrolment of 180, and was highly regarded for the quality of its teaching and its achievements in sport.〔 Ravenswood became a day and boarding school in 1935, with the enrolment of the first two boarders.〔 The 1960s saw the introduction of the school anthem, ''Kindle the Flame'', and the fourth school House, all houses named, by the students, after the Royal Houses of Britain: Stuart, Tudor, Windsor and York.〔 In 1975, as the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches came together to form the Uniting Church, the school name changed to its current form, Ravenswood School for Girls. The royal blue and gold uniform was also introduced at this time.〔 In its Centenary Year in 2001, the school celebrated with the official opening of The Centenary Centre for Performing Arts, by His Excellency the Honourable Sir William Deane, AC, KBE, Governor-General of Australia (1996–2001). Further change was seen on 5 September 2007, with the introduction of a new school uniform that now reflects the original navy blue and gold Ravenswood colours. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ravenswood School for Girls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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