History
Kambala was established in 1887 by Louisa Gurney, the daughter of an English clergyman. Gurney conducted her first classes with twelve girls at a terrace house in Woolahra called 'Fernbank'. In 1891, Mlle Augustine Soubeiran, who had assisted in the running of the school and taught French, became Co-Principal and to accommodate increasing enrolments, the School was moved to a larger property in Bellevue Hill called Kambala, of which the school took its new name.
In 1913, with an enrolment of nearly fifty, the School moved again, to its present site in New South Head Road, Rose Bay. The property was known as "Tivoli" of the original Tivoli Estate, and was previously occupied by Captain William Dumaresq and later by merchant James Robinson Love. The spacious new building, built in 1841, and the notable architect John Horbury Hunt was commissioned to extend Tivoli and today this building houses Kambala's boarders in Years 7 to 10.
In 1926, Kambala became a Church of England Foundation School controlled by an independent council. During Fifi Hawthorne's tenure as Principal, 1933 to 1966, the School grew from 100 pupils to more than 660 and buildings and facilities expanded accordingly.
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