The Beginning
Catholic Education in Tamworth began with some small cottage schools conducted by Catholic lay women in the late 1860s. In 1876 the Dominican Sisters began their association with the "City of Peel" and beyond. Schools were opened on 16 January the first enrolment in the Primary School being ninety while the High School - St Dominic's Priory - began with ten students. In 1882, St Dominic's Convent was opened and in 1910, the St. Nicholas Primary School was built in order to provide adequately for the 400 pupils attending the schools. Girls and boys attended St. Nicholas in Infants/Primary - Kindergarten to Year Four - with St. Dominic's starting at Year Five. In 1925 the Christian Brothers was established and was attended only by boys. This meant that St. Dominics became a school only for girls. The St. Nicholas School was at this stage, located where the K Mart Plaza stands today in White Street. St. Dominic's Priory was behind the St Nicholas School dormitory house in the convent.
In 1972, McCarthy Senior Catholic High School (Years 11 and 12) was formed and catered for the co-educational situation. The school was named after Father Tim McCarthy who administered Mass in the area. June 1975 saw the school move to its present site in Tribe Street. In 1980, it was decided that a new co-educational high school would be formed, combining the Year Seven to Ten students of both Christian Brothers College and St. Dominic's. In 1981, St Dominic's and the Christian College were combined to form Our Lady of the Rosary College - a co-educational school for students of Years Seven to Ten. The school began (term one, 1981) on the St. Dominic's site awaiting the final construction of the new school buildings. These were built on a site on Warral Road, on the south western side of town. On Monday 13 July 1981, Sister Teresa led the school in prayer.
The official opening of the school was on 11 October 1981.
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