School

School History

Parish’ Name:             Sacred Heart, Boggabri

School established:

1911 (Church and school shared building until 1918)

Principals and enrolled number of students:

1911-1984       Srs of St Joseph

1981                Pam Smith

                        Terry Gimpel

                        John Power

1987-1989       Kevin Humphries

1990-1993       David Casey

1994-1996       Greg Quill

1998- 2000      Chris Sheridan

2001                Rick McEvoy (Acting Principal)

2002 - 2004     Paul Ryan          54 - Aug 2003      

2005 -              Rick McEvoy       61 - Feb 2005         43 - Aug 2006              35 -  Aug  2007      33-  Feb 2008

History of School

Sacred Heart School was founded by the Sisters of St Joseph in 1911. The Sisters of St Joseph were founded by the Blessed Mary MacKillop, who died in 1909, so possibly the creation of a convent and school at Boggabri were amongst her last decisions.

Until 1918, the Sisters conducted School in the church. Fr Daniel Keane was made Parish Priest of Gunnedah in 1918 and in that year he built a new school, which occupied the site of the present school building. In 1965 a new brick building was opened and blessed by Bishop E J Doody. The administration building was added in 1985 and blessed by Bishop H J Kennedy.

The Sisters of St Joseph were in charge of the school until 1980 and continued to teach until 1984 with Sr Roseanne being the last Sister to teach at the school.

The first lay Principal was Pam Smith (1981).

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