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{{Infobox school
|name = The Wilderness School
| name = The Wilderness School
|image = [[Image:Wildernessschool.jpg|170px|Wilderness School crest. Source: www.wilderness.com.au (Wilderness School website)]]
| image = [[Image:Wildernessschool.jpg|170px|Wilderness School crest. Source: www.wilderness.com.au (Wilderness School website)]]
|motto = {{lang-la|Semper Verus}}
| motto = {{lang-la|Semper Verus}}
|motto_translation = Always True
| motto_translation = Always True
|established = 1884
| established = August 8 1884
|type = [[Independent school|Independent]], [[Day school|Day]] and [[Boarding school|Boarding]]
| type = [[Independent school|Independent]], [[Day school|day]] and [[Boarding school|boarding]]
|denomination = [[Non-denominational]]
| denomination = [[Non-denominational]]
|slogan =
| slogan =
| founder = [[Margaret Hamilton Brown]] OBE
|principal = Mrs. Jane Danvers
| principal = Belinda Arnfield
|city = [[Medindie, South Australia|Medindie]]
|state = [[South Australia]]
| city = [[Medindie, South Australia|Medindie]]
|country = Australia
| state = [[South Australia]]
| country = Australia
|enrolment = ~750
| enrolment = 820
|enrolment_as_of = 2008
|grades = R&ndash;12<ref name=ABSA/>
| enrolment_as_of = 2018
| grades = R&ndash;12<ref name=ABSA/>
|gender = [[Single-sex school|Girls]]
| gender = [[Single-sex school|Girls]]
|staff =
| staff =
|colours = Brown and Blue {{color box|#964B00}}{{color box|#87CEEB}}
| colours = Brown and blue {{color box|#964B00}}{{color box|#87CEEB}}
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|homepage = [http://www.wilderness.com.au/ www.wilderness.com.au]
| affiliation = [[Independent Girls' Schools Sports Association (South Australia)|Independent Girls Schools Sports Association]]
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| homepage = [http://www.wilderness.com.au/ www.wilderness.com.au]
}}
}}


'''Wilderness School''' is an [[Independent school|independent]], [[non-denominational]] [[Christianity|Christian]], [[Day school|day]] and [[boarding school]] for girls, located in [[Medindie, South Australia|Medindie]], an inner northern suburb of [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]].
'''Wilderness School''' is an [[Independent school|independent]], [[non-denominational]] [[Christianity|Christian]], [[Day school|day]] and [[boarding school]] for girls, located in [[Medindie, South Australia|Medindie]], an inner northern suburb of [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]].


Established by the Brown sisters in 1884 with four girls and one small boy, Andrew Muecke, as students,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35759891 |title=Wilderness School Diamond Jubilee |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)]] |location=South Australia |date=7 October 1946 |accessdate=25 February 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Wilderness is a Reception to Year 12 school, and also caters for Year 13. The school currently enrols approximately 750 students, including up to 80 [[Boarding school|boarders]].<ref name=ABSA/> In 2003, ''[[The Australian]]'' declared The Wilderness School one of the ten highest achieving schools in Australia.<ref name="TheAustralian">[http://www.wilderness.com.au/notices/best10schools.pdf The Australian- Wilderness School award] (accessed:26-06-2007)</ref>
Established by the Brown family in 1884 with four girls and one small boy, Andrew Muecke, as students,<ref name=start1886>{{Cite web |title=Misses Brown grow a home school at North Adelaide from 1884 into Wilderness at Medindie; thriving in 21st Century |url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/the-misses-brown-at-wilderness--caroline-jacobs--tormore-house-extend-dame-tradition |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=Adelaide AZ |language=English}}</ref> Wilderness is a Reception to Year 12 school, and also caters for Year 13. The school enrolled approximately 820 students in 2007, including up to 80 [[Boarding school|boarders]].<ref name=ABSA/> In 2003, ''[[The Australian]]'' declared The Wilderness School one of the ten highest achieving schools in Australia.<ref name="TheAustralian"/>


Wilderness School is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),<ref name=AHISA>{{cite web |url=http://www.ahisa.com.au/Display.aspx?tabid=3243& |title=School Directory|accessdate=2008-05-21 |year =2008 |work=South Australia |publisher=Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080719060121/http://www.ahisa.com.au/Display.aspx?tabid=3243& |archivedate = 2008-07-19}}</ref> the [[Junior School Heads Association of Australia]] (JSHAA),<ref name=jshaa>{{cite web |url=http://www.jshaa.asn.au/southaustralia/directory/index.asp |title=JSHAA South Australian Directory of Members |accessdate=2008-05-21 |year=2008 |work=South Australia Branch |publisher=Junior School Heads' Association of Australia |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406045335/http://www.jshaa.asn.au/southaustralia/directory/index.asp |archivedate=2008-04-06 |df= }}</ref> the Australian Boarding Schools' Association,<ref name=ABSA>{{cite web|url=http://www.boarding.org.au/site/school_detail.cfm?schID=175 |title=Wilderness School |accessdate=2008-05-21 |year=2008 |work=Schools |publisher=Australian Boarding Schools' Association |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117110520/http://www.boarding.org.au/site/school_detail.cfm?schID=175 |archivedate=November 17, 2007 }}</ref> the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA) <ref name=AGSA>{{cite web|url = http://www.agsa.org.au/members.php?PageID=11&Alpha=W|title = Member Schools|accessdate = 2008-05-21 |last = Butler|first = Jan|year = 2006|work = Members|publisher = The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia}}</ref> and the [[Independent Girls' Schools Sports Association (South Australia)|Independent Girls' Schools Sports Association]] (IGSSA).
Wilderness School is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),<ref name=AHISA>{{cite web |url=http://www.ahisa.com.au/Display.aspx?tabid=3243& |title=School Directory|access-date=2008-05-21 |year =2008 |work=South Australia |publisher=Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080719060121/http://www.ahisa.com.au/Display.aspx?tabid=3243& |archive-date = 2008-07-19}}</ref> the [[Junior School Heads Association of Australia]] (JSHAA),<ref name=jshaa>{{cite web |url=http://www.jshaa.asn.au/southaustralia/directory/index.asp |title=JSHAA South Australian Directory of Members |access-date=2008-05-21 |year=2008 |work=South Australia Branch |publisher=Junior School Heads' Association of Australia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406045335/http://www.jshaa.asn.au/southaustralia/directory/index.asp |archive-date=2008-04-06 }}</ref> the Australian Boarding Schools' Association,<ref name=ABSA>{{cite web|url=http://www.boarding.org.au/site/school_detail.cfm?schID=175 |title=Wilderness School |access-date=2008-05-21 |year=2008 |work=Schools |publisher=Australian Boarding Schools' Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117110520/http://www.boarding.org.au/site/school_detail.cfm?schID=175 |archive-date=November 17, 2007 }}</ref> the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA)<ref name=AGSA>{{cite web|url = http://www.agsa.org.au/members.php?PageID=11&Alpha=W|title = Member Schools|access-date = 2008-05-21 |last = Butler|first = Jan|year = 2006|work = Members|publisher = The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia}}</ref> and the [[Independent Girls' Schools Sports Association (South Australia)|Independent Girls' Schools Sports Association]] (IGSSA).


==Sport==
== History ==
The school was created by the Brown family who encouraged their eldest daughter [[Margaret Hamilton Brown]] to take an interest in education after her father's business had failed. Margaret was born in Edinburgh and educated in South Australia and she showed a talent for teaching. In 1884 she started a small school in her parents home<ref name=madrd/> with her youngest sister, [[Mamie Brown|Mary (Mamie) Home Brown]], as one of the five founding pupils.<ref name=start1886/> In the following year the family moved and Margaret began a [[kindergarten]] based on play equipment from Germany and the ideas of [[Friedrich Froebel]]. As the children grew then so did the focus of the school and in 1893 Margaret bought a building on Northcote Terrace to host a school that she later renamed "The Wilderness".<ref name=madrd>{{Citation |last=Berry |first=Dean W. |title=Margaret Hamilton Brown (1858–1952) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brown-margaret-hamilton-5390 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |access-date=2024-01-06 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}</ref>
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Wilderness maintains the sporting grounds at Park 6 on Robe Terrace, for use as [[Field hockey|hockey]], [[lacrosse]] and [[soccer]] fields. Other sporting facilities include a [[gym]]nasium which was completed in 2005, and a boatshed at the South Australian Rowing Association complex at [[West Lakes, South Australia|West Lakes]] for [[Sport rowing|rowing]].
[[file:The-brown-sisters in c 1946 at the Wilderness School.jpg|left|thumb|The four surviving Brown sisters in 1946]]
It became a boarding school that increasingly employed the five Brown sisters as teachers. The Brown family helped to run the school which had no uniform. Classes took place around the dining table, in an old tram or in the stables. Margaret's younger sister Mamie Brown showed a talent for teaching. She introduced the ideas of [[Charlotte Mason]] while Margaret moved aside to manage the school's business rather than the education. By the end of the second world war the successful school had 360 pupils. Margaret was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1948 and in the same year the school was made into a company. Margaret died in 1952 and Mamie in 1968 leaving a thriving school.<ref name=madrd/>

In 2003, ''[[The Australian]]'' declared the school one of the ten highest achieving schools in Australia.<ref name="TheAustralian">[http://www.wilderness.com.au/notices/best10schools.pdf The Australian- Wilderness School award] (dead link - accessed:26-06-2007)</ref>


==House system==
== House system ==
The Wilderness School has five [[House system|houses]], through which all girls partake in intra-school activities:
The Wilderness School has five [[House system|houses]], through which all girls partake in intra-school activities:
*Amaryllis (Pink)
*Amaryllis (Pink)
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*Cedar (Purple)
*Cedar (Purple)
*Sparaxis (Orange)
*Sparaxis (Orange)

==Sport==
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Wilderness School is a member of the [[Independent Girls' Schools Sports Association (South Australia)|Independent Girls Schools Sports Association]] (IGSSA). The school maintains the sporting grounds at Park 6 on Robe Terrace, for use as [[Field hockey|hockey]], [[lacrosse]] and [[soccer]] fields. Other sporting facilities include a [[gym]]nasium which was completed in 2005, and a boatshed at the South Australian Rowing Association complex at [[West Lakes, South Australia|West Lakes]] for [[Sport rowing|rowing]].

=== IGSSA premierships ===
Wilderness school has won the following IGSSA premierships.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sports – Independent Girls Schools Sports Association|url=https://www.igssa.org/sports/|access-date=2021-09-06|language=en-AU}}</ref>

* Badminton (3) – 2009, 2014, 2015
* Hockey (7) – 1981, 1982, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2019
* Swimming – 2010


==Notable alumnae==
==Notable alumnae==
*[[Mamie Brown]] – founding pupil and the second principal
*[[Annabel Crabb]] &ndash; the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC's]] chief online political writer, formerly political columnist with ''[[The Age]]''<ref name=Crikey>{{cite news| first = Jonathan| last = Green| title = Famous alumni on Latham's hit list| url = http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20060614-Famous-alumni-on-Lathams-hit-list.html| work = Politics| publisher = Crikey| date = 2005-03-30| accessdate = 2007-08-06| deadurl = yes| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224608/http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20060614-Famous-alumni-on-Lathams-hit-list.html| archivedate = 2007-09-26| df = }}</ref>
*[[Annabel Crabb]] &ndash; the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC's]] chief online political writer, formerly political columnist with ''[[The Age]]''<ref name=Crikey>{{cite news| first = Jonathan| last = Green| title = Famous alumni on Latham's hit list| url = http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20060614-Famous-alumni-on-Lathams-hit-list.html| work = Politics| publisher = Crikey| date = 2005-03-30| access-date = 2007-08-06| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224608/http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20060614-Famous-alumni-on-Lathams-hit-list.html| archive-date = 2007-09-26}}</ref>
*[[Ally Fowler]] &ndash; Actress<ref name="Crikey"/>
*[[Ally Fowler]] &ndash; actress<ref name="Crikey"/>
*[[Posie Graeme-Evans]] &ndash; Novelist; Producer; Director of Drama, [[Nine Network]]; Co-creator of ''[[Hi-5 (Australian TV series)|Hi-5]]'' and ''[[McLeod's Daughters]]'' (also attended [[The Fahan School]])<ref name="Graeme-Evans">{{cite encyclopedia| editor = Suzannah Pearce| encyclopedia = Who's Who in Australia Live!| title = GRAEME-EVANS Posie| date = 2006-11-17| publisher = Crown Content Pty Ltd| location = North Melbourne, Vic}}</ref>
*[[Posie Graeme-Evans]] &ndash; novelist, producer, director of drama, co-creator of ''[[Hi-5 (Australian TV series)|Hi-5]]'' and ''[[McLeod's Daughters]]'' (also attended [[The Fahan School]])<ref name="Graeme-Evans">{{cite encyclopedia| editor = Suzannah Pearce| encyclopedia = Who's Who in Australia Live!| title = GRAEME-EVANS Posie| date = 2006-11-17| publisher = Crown Content Pty Ltd| location = North Melbourne, Vic}}</ref>
*[[Catherine Ellis (journalist)|Catherine Ellis]] – Journalist; reporter on ABC's 'Behind The News'; contributor on Seven Network's 'The Bounce'
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*[[Mekhla Kumar]] – pianist
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* [[Georgie Parker (field hockey)|Georgie Parker]], member of the [[Australia women's national field hockey team|Australian National Hockey Team]].<ref>http://www.hockey.org.au/index.php?id=522</ref>
*[[Susan Magarey]] – historian and author
* [[Beccy Cole]], Australian singer-songwriter
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* [[Georgie Parker (field hockey)|Georgie Parker]] – member of the [[Australia women's national field hockey team|Australian National Hockey Team]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hockey.org.au/index.php?id=522 | title=Home &#124; Hockey Australia }}</ref>
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* [[Mekhla Kumar]], Australian pianist
* [[Phiala E. Shanahan]] – theoretical physicist<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Yew|first=Anthea|date=August 2017|title=Eloise Petrucco: St. Andrew's University Scotland|url=https://issuu.com/wildernessschool/docs/litw_-_issue_7|journal=Life in the Wilderness|volume=7|pages=20–21|via=issuu.com}}</ref>
* [[Ellinor Gertrude Walker]] – teacher and women's rights activist<ref name="eadrb">{{Citation |last=Jones |first=Helen |title=Ellinor Gertrude Walker (1893–1990) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/walker-ellinor-gertrude-15882 |access-date=2024-05-04 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
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==References==
==References==
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{{Reflist|2}}


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Latest revision as of 12:07, 5 June 2024

The Wilderness School
Wilderness School crest. Source: www.wilderness.com.au (Wilderness School website)
Standort
Map
Medindie
,
South Australia

Australien
Information
TypIndependent, day and boarding
MottoLatin: Semper Verus
(Always True)
DenominationNon-denominational
EstablishedAugust 8 1884
GründerMargaret Hamilton Brown OBE
DirektorinBelinda Arnfield
GradesR–12[1]
GenderGirls
Enrolment820 (2018)
Colour(s)Brown and blue   
AffiliationIndependent Girls Schools Sports Association
Websitewww.wilderness.com.au

Wilderness School is an independent, non-denominational Christian, day and boarding school for girls, located in Medindie, an inner northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

Established by the Brown family in 1884 with four girls and one small boy, Andrew Muecke, as students,[2] Wilderness is a Reception to Year 12 school, and also caters for Year 13. The school enrolled approximately 820 students in 2007, including up to 80 boarders.[1] In 2003, The Australian declared The Wilderness School one of the ten highest achieving schools in Australia.[3]

Wilderness School is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),[4] the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),[5] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association,[1] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA)[6] and the Independent Girls' Schools Sports Association (IGSSA).

History

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The school was created by the Brown family who encouraged their eldest daughter Margaret Hamilton Brown to take an interest in education after her father's business had failed. Margaret was born in Edinburgh and educated in South Australia and she showed a talent for teaching. In 1884 she started a small school in her parents home[7] with her youngest sister, Mary (Mamie) Home Brown, as one of the five founding pupils.[2] In the following year the family moved and Margaret began a kindergarten based on play equipment from Germany and the ideas of Friedrich Froebel. As the children grew then so did the focus of the school and in 1893 Margaret bought a building on Northcote Terrace to host a school that she later renamed "The Wilderness".[7]

The four surviving Brown sisters in 1946

It became a boarding school that increasingly employed the five Brown sisters as teachers. The Brown family helped to run the school which had no uniform. Classes took place around the dining table, in an old tram or in the stables. Margaret's younger sister Mamie Brown showed a talent for teaching. She introduced the ideas of Charlotte Mason while Margaret moved aside to manage the school's business rather than the education. By the end of the second world war the successful school had 360 pupils. Margaret was awarded an OBE in 1948 and in the same year the school was made into a company. Margaret died in 1952 and Mamie in 1968 leaving a thriving school.[7]

In 2003, The Australian declared the school one of the ten highest achieving schools in Australia.[3]

House system

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The Wilderness School has five houses, through which all girls partake in intra-school activities:

  • Amaryllis (Pink)
  • Antholiza (Blue)
  • Carob (Green)
  • Cedar (Purple)
  • Sparaxis (Orange)

Sport

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Wilderness School is a member of the Independent Girls Schools Sports Association (IGSSA). The school maintains the sporting grounds at Park 6 on Robe Terrace, for use as hockey, lacrosse and soccer fields. Other sporting facilities include a gymnasium which was completed in 2005, and a boatshed at the South Australian Rowing Association complex at West Lakes for rowing.

IGSSA premierships

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Wilderness school has won the following IGSSA premierships.[8]

  • Badminton (3) – 2009, 2014, 2015
  • Hockey (7) – 1981, 1982, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2019
  • Swimming – 2010

Notable alumnae

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Wilderness School". Schools. Australian Boarding Schools' Association. 2008. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
  2. ^ a b "Misses Brown grow a home school at North Adelaide from 1884 into Wilderness at Medindie; thriving in 21st Century". Adelaide AZ. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b The Australian- Wilderness School award (dead link - accessed:26-06-2007)
  4. ^ "School Directory". South Australia. Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
  5. ^ "JSHAA South Australian Directory of Members". South Australia Branch. Junior School Heads' Association of Australia. 2008. Archived from the original on 6 April 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
  6. ^ Butler, Jan (2006). "Member Schools". Members. The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
  7. ^ a b c Berry, Dean W., "Margaret Hamilton Brown (1858–1952)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 6 January 2024
  8. ^ "Sports – Independent Girls Schools Sports Association". Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  9. ^ a b Green, Jonathan (30 March 2005). "Famous alumni on Latham's hit list". Politics. Crikey. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
  10. ^ Suzannah Pearce, ed. (17 November 2006). "GRAEME-EVANS Posie". Who's Who in Australia Live!. North Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd.
  11. ^ "Home | Hockey Australia".
  12. ^ Yew, Anthea (August 2017). "Eloise Petrucco: St. Andrew's University Scotland". Life in the Wilderness. 7: 20–21 – via issuu.com.
  13. ^ Jones, Helen, "Ellinor Gertrude Walker (1893–1990)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 4 May 2024
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