Mt Carmel College Sandy Bay

In Tasmania, the primary school at St Joseph's Hobart, established in 1847, was replaced by Mt Carmel Primary in Sandy Bay in 1942. Fifteen years later, in 1957, St Joseph's Secondary was transferred from Molle Street to Sandy Bay and the new secondary school was blessed and opened as Mt Carmel College Sandy Bay (www.mountcarmel.tas.edu.au). With the decision to establish a single senior Catholic secondary College (Years 11-12) in 1995, Mt Carmel has continued as a K-10 school for girls, with boys from Infants to Grade 2. Up to 1998, Mt Carmel had been under the Principalship of a Sister of Charity; in that year, the first lay Principal, Mrs Bobby Court was appointed. One sister is still involved on the staff of as a pastoral counsellor and another serves on the Governing Council. Though the College is no longer conducted by the Sisters of Charity it continues to maintain strong links with the founding story and the Sisters of Charity.