St Mary's Anglican Girls' School - Facilities

Facilities

The St Mary's campus in Karrinyup is located on 40 acres of land.

In 1999 the school built a performing arts venue, The Lady Wardle Performing Arts Centre with an auditorium that seats 509 people. Later, an adjoining building, The Lady Treatt Centre for Music and Dance, was built and contains a dance studio, as well as a number of music classrooms and individual music tuition rooms.

The school grounds also contain a 50m heated swimming pool, paddle pool and dive pool (The Sir Thomas Wardle Swimming Pool Complex), which was refurbished in 2011, as well as two gymnasiums (Hearn Hall and Dannatt Hall). Hearn Hall was largely funded by the federal government's Building Education Revolution Primary Schools for the 21st Century Programme. In 2012 the school completed construction of a new library complex.

In 2005, the St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School Foundation purchased 100 acres of land in the Margaret River Wine Region. In 2008, St Mary's at Metricup: The Lady Treatt Centre for Learning and Leadership, an outdoor education facility, was opened. The centre is the first of its kind for an all-girls school in Western Australia and was funded by the Foundation as well as donations from Old Girls, parents and friends of the school. The facilities were designed and constructed in a manner which maximises their environmental sustainability. The property contains two dams, two large pastures, an eco-tent camping area, dormitory accommodation and a cottage.

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