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The Independent Girls' Schools Sporting Association was established in 1922 [2] as the Girls Secondary Schools Sports Union. [3] Commencing with just five members, [2] all of them independent, Protestant schools for girls, [3] IGSSA grew rapidly in the 1980s and 90s following the introduction of graded competition for many sports, improving competitions and adding new sports.
In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked North Sydney Girls High School first in Australia's top ten girls' schools, based on the number of its alumnae mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia. [3] In 2022, North Sydney Girls High School ranked as the fourth high school in the state, based on the percentage of exams sat that achieved a Distinguished ...
The Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales (AAGPS) is a sporting association of boys' schools in New South Wales, Australia that contest sporting events among themselves. The AAGPS was formed on 30 March 1892, [ 1 ] and today has nine members – eight Sydney schools and one northern NSW country school. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "People educated at North Sydney Girls High School" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The school is named in honour of the Cammeraygal, a clan of the Eora tribe of Indigenous Australians who inhabited the lower north shore of Sydney. [2]The school site originally opened in 1914 as North Sydney Girls High School until December 1993, when North Sydney Girls relocated across the Pacific Highway to the site of the closed Crows Nest Boys High School. [3]
Sydney Girls High School has a long tradition of sports, in addition to academic scholarship and offers students a range of extra-curricular sports, including athletics, badminton, basketball, chess, cricket, cross country running, fencing, hockey, rowing, snow sports, soccer, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, water polo, and netball.
Wenona School is an independent, secular, day and boarding school for girls, located in the Sydney suburb of North Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.. Founded by Miss Edith Hooke in 1886 as Woodstock School, Wenona has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,000 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, [1] including 50 boarders in Years 7 to 12.
The Hopman Cup is an international mixed-gender team tennis event that is annually organized in Perth. [21] The tournament is part of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) [22] and features players from eight different countries. [23] The tournament has been played since 1989 and paused in 2020. [23] World Tennis Challenge