History
Brisbane Girls Grammar School was founded in March 1875, six years before women were admitted to universities in Sydney and Melbourne. The School opened as a branch of Brisbane Grammar School with fifty female students, under the direction of a Lady Principal, Janet O'Connor, in premises on George Street, Brisbane. Within six months the School outgrew these premises and subsequently moved to Wickham Terrace.
By July 1882, the School was well established and a decision was made to separate from Brisbane Grammar School, so as to operate independently under the Grammar Schools Act. Plans were also made to move the School to its present location on Gregory Terrace. In 1884, the Main Building, designed by architect Richard Gailey, was opened to one hundred students.
The school's motto is Nil Sine Labore, Latin for "Nothing Without Work". It was adopted from the Brisbane Grammar School, which in turn borrowed it from Horace's Second Book of Satires. The school badge is an open book on a shield with the school motto on a ribbon underneath. The open book was also borrowed from Oxford University, where over half of the original staff of Brisbane Grammar School were originally secured.
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