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Day School
1890
$ 26.5K-42.5K
Australian
While serving as the rector of St. Stephen's Church in Kurrajong in 1890, Reverend Henry Plume gave matriculation, senior, and junior exam tutoring to five local students. Their scholastic achievements inspired him to create his own school. The next year, Plume renamed his new school Barker College in honour of Frederic Barker, the second Bishop of Sydney, and relocated to Stokesleigh, a guesthouse in Kurrajong Heights. The school permitted both day students and boarders to be taught, and in its inaugural year it accepted eighteen students, including four sisters of the Bowman family.
Since 1919, the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia has controlled Barker, and it has consistently fulfilled its mission to educate youth in the Christian faith as recognised by the Anglican Church of Australia and in Christian life. By teaching young people about Christianity, we give our pupils the ability, wisdom, and understanding necessary to effect genuine change. The students can grow resilient and adaptable in a nurturing environment by being exposed to a variety of chances and experiences. The values that they try to inculcate are as follows:
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