When was Carmel College built?
In 1957, the long held dream of the Sisters of Mercy to establish a Catholic girls’ school on the North Shore was realised. On land purchased from the Poynton family, Sr. Mary Justine Gillies was given the mission of founding Carmel College, initially with fifteen students and no actual classrooms.
What is the history of Carmel?
Carmel College was a predominantly Jewish co-educational boarding school in England operating between 1948 and 1997. It was first situated at Greenham Common near Newbury and then at Mongewell Park near Wallingford, Oxfordshire. It was one of Europe's only two Jewish boarding schools,
What is special about Carmel College?
Carmel College was a boarding school in Oxfordshire with predominantly Jewish pupils. The school opened in 1948 as Europe’s only Jewish boarding school. For this reason the school had a substantial number of foreign students.