Why choose us?
At Bethany College Hurstville, our girls take centre stage, fulfilling their desire for a bright future. As proactive learners, our students are inspired to become critical, creative and collaborative thinkers. We ensure that every girl is cared for with respect, encouraging them to undertake programs that promote wellbeing, academic and spiritual growth.
Privileged to learn in a state-of-the art environment, our girls benefit from an array of co-curricular programs. These programs develop a passion for lifelong learning, with students leaving Bethany with the skills to fulfill their potential in the 21st century.
Principal’s Message
History
Bethany had its beginnings in 1993 when the rich traditions of the Sisters of St Joseph were established at St Joseph’s Rockdale as early as the 1920s and then moved to Kogarah in 1965 and the Sisters of Charity, established at St Mary’s Star of the Sea Hurstville in 1885, were combined to meet the educational needs of girls in the St George area.
The college’s original structure featured Years 7 and 8 at Kogarah and Years 9 through 12 at Hurstville.
In 2009, the college relocated the Year 7 and 8 campus to newly built facilities at Hurstville campus. In 2010 the major redevelopment of facilities on the Hurstville Campus was completed, with all new buildings occupied by staff and students from the beginning of the 2011 school year. The past decade has seen Years 7 to 12 enjoy the benefits of a singular campus at Hurstville.
Our Purpose
At Bethany, guided by our college motto – to act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God – we seek to equip, nurture and empower young women, strong in:
- Intellect: Young women with the skills to respond critically and creatively to the challenges that arise in an increasingly complex world.
- Faith: Young women who will continue to meet the world with a sense of justice, humility and love that is always rooted in the college motto, to: act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with God.
- Character: Confident, resilient young women who are critically engaged in their world, motivated to be agents of change.
Our Values
To act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God, means as a member of a community of learners, inspired by the Gospel of Jesus, we are called to:
On December 18, 1850, Michael Gannon purchased 1905 acres from the estate of Captain John Townson whose grant of crown land “took in the whole of the present suburbs of Hurstville and Carlton reaching almost to Kogarah Bay”.
Michael Gannon transferred the ownership of two acres of his land to the Most Reverend John Bede Polding on November 24 1855 as a site for a Catholic church; because there were few Catholics then living in the district with no buildings erected.
Almost thirty years had passed before a meeting of Catholics, under the chairmanship of Rev. Placid Quirk, decided to build on this land a temporary church with the name ‘St Michael’.
