St Hilda's School - Our Culture


Our Culture

Virtual Tour

Virtual Tour of St Hilda's Campus

Welcome to St Hilda's Virtual Tour, where you can view major facilities of the School in a 360 degree panorama. Select the movie size that is appropriate for your internet connection - low bandwidth is suitable for dial-up connections and high bandwidth works best with ADSL or cable broadband.

To view these panoramas you will require the free QuickTime plugin which is available here. Once opened, click and hold down to rotate the images, press the Shift key to zoom in, or Control to zoom out.

Visitors' Reception

Visitors’ Reception, James Administration building: The ground floor houses reception areas for Junior, Middle and Senior Schools. The building was completed in 2002 and named after former Principal Mrs Josephine James (1989-2002).

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Preparatory School Centre

Preparatory Centre: Completed in 2006 at a cost of $4 million. The interactive playground was designed by leading Early Childhood teacher and landscape designer Mrs Prue Walsh. A feature of the centre is the Memory Wall. The School is grateful to those families who purchased “memory” bricks.

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Junior School Courtyard

Junior School Courtyard: The covered and landscaped courtyard stretches between Bourne and Fittock buildings. Bourne, built in 1956, is named in honour of the first Principal, Miss Catherine Bourne (1912-1923). Fittock, built in 1959, is after Miss Winifred Fittock, the second Principal (1924-1951).

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Davenport

Middle School’s Davenport building: This two-storey teaching block opened in 2002 and was named in honour of Miss Helena Davenport, founder, owner and Principal of Goyte-Lea School and interim Principal of St Hilda’s (1912).

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Design And Technology

Senior School Design and Technology hub: Opened May 1996. Houses the heart of the School’s extensive computer network.

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Library Quad

Library Quad: A beautifully paved and landscaped courtyard at the entrance to the Senior Library and Reeves building. A feature of the courtyard is a pond over which a copper sculpture depicts dancing brolgas.

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Senior Library

Senior Library: Built in 1972 and extended in 1992, the Library was named after Miss Gwendoline Horton, Assistant Mistress (1925-1940) and Principal (1952-1964).

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Boarders' Quad

Boarders’ Quad: An elegant paved and landscaped courtyard that is enclosed by the original School building of Whitby, the historic Assembly Hall and the newer Darragh House.

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Chapel

The Chapel: Completed in 1962 in the School's Silver Jubilee year. The leadlight windows depict the floral emblems of the School Houses - Acacia, Grevillea, Tristania (Junior Houses) and Banksia, Karragaroo, Melaleuca (Senior Houses).

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Pool and Sports Complex

Olympic Swimming Pool and Sports Complex: The 50m pool was completed in 1994. The British Olympic Team trained here in the lead up to the 2000 Olympic Games and HRH Princess Anne visited the School as a gesture of appreciation.

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Virtual Tour

To view these panoramas you will require the free QuickTime plugin which is available here.