St. Rose's High School, Guyana

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name = St. Rose's High School


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streetaddress = 254 Church Street
city = Georgetown
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country = flagicon|Guyana Guyana
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founder = Ursulines
head of school = Ercellen Cummings-Archibald
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gender = coed
houses = Brescia, Cologne, Lima, Loretto, Merici
grades = 7-12
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song = "Serviam"
motto = "Serviam" (Latin: 'to serve')
patron = St. Rose of Lima
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established = 1847
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St. Rose's High School is a school serving students in grades 7-12 in Georgetown, Guyana. To be accepted into the school, the student must receive a certain grade on their Secondary Schools Entrance Examination (SSEE). This is currently the fourth highest school in Guyana, closely followed by St. Joseph High School.

History

Six nuns and two postulants from the Ursuline convent in Athlone, Ireland traveled to the then-colony of British Guiana in 1847. The sisters, Mothers Mary Bernard Perry, Mary de Sales Molony, Mary Magdalen Doyle, Mary Regis O’Brien, superior, Mary Stanislaus Hearne and Mary Alphonsus O’Beirnem opened a Secondary School for Girls on August 31st of that year, the celebration of St. Rose of Lima.

Three-story structures were built to accommodate the growing student population in 1869 and 1925. The latter building included an auditorium that was the largest of its kind in Georgetown for many years. Construction began on a gymnasium in 1935. The boarding program closed in 1953, followed shortly by completion of a new wing of the school, the Marian Wing, in 1954. New laboratories and classrooms were added in the late 1960s.

St. Rose's accepted its first male students in 1975, a year before all Guyana schools became state-controlled. Despite the government oversight, St. Rose's maintained its logo (badge) of the Ursuline shield. In 2005, a board of governors was established to manage St. Rose's High School.

tudent organizations and traditions

St. Rose's students are sorted into five houses. Their names, colors and mottos are:
*Brescia, red, "He conquers who overcomes himself"
*Cologne, yellow, "Nothing ventured nothing gained"
*Lima, pink, "Excelsior"
*Loretto, blue, "Unity is strength"
*Merici, green, "Where there's a will, there's a way"

The current spacing is:
*Brescia
*Merici
*Loretto
*Cologne
*Lima

Alumni

The St. Rose's High School Alumni Association has chapters located throughout the world. The chapters help raise funds for the ongoing improvement of the school and its related institutions.

References

*cite web |author=Sr Jacqueline Da Silva |title=Through One Hundred and Fifty Years of History - The Ursulines and St. Rose's |url=http://www.strosestoronto.org/graphics/150_years.pdf |work=Together Celebrating 150 Years: The Ursuline Nuns in Guyana and St.Rose’s High School 1847 – 1997

External links

* [http://www.strosesalumni.org/ St. Rose's High School Alumni Association (New York chapter)]
* [http://www.strosestoronto.org/ St. Rose's High School Alumni Association (Toronto chapter)]