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  Windback Wednesday - Norwood International High School

  Published: 28 January 2026 Did you know Norwood International High School was located in Norwood for only five years, and has been located within the City of Burnside since 1915? Officially opened at Osmond Terrace, Norwood on 25 January 1910, Norwood District High School moved to a new site on Lossie Street, Kensington Park in 1915, when enrolment numbers outgrew the original school building. Enrolment numbers increased again following the post-WW2 population boom and, seeking further space, N...

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  Windback Wednesday - St Patrick's Special School

  Published: 21 January 2026. St Patrick's Special School was originally established in 1944 next to St Patrick's Church on Grote Street. The school was founded as part of Father Russell's desire to facilitate the schooling of children who struggled with the standardised curriculum, providing a specialised education which allowed individual children to learn at their own pace. The campus was moved to a prefabricated building on West Terrace from 1951 until 1969, when it moved to it...

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  Windback Wednesday - St Peter's Girls' School

  Published: 14 January 2026. Did you know St Peter's Girls' School was originally established on Kermode Street, North Adelaide in 1894? In 1947, the Community of the Sisters of the Church, which ran the school, agreed to sell the school's property to the adjoining Adelaide Children's Hospital. However the sale could not be completed until a replacement school was constructed. In 1949 the Sisters purchased Chiverton House and the surrounding nine acres of land, which had been...

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