Finishing School for Girls
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SITUATED in charming grounds at Darling Point, Sydney, Hopewood House is the ideal finishing school for Islands girls. The purpose of this institution is to enable girls on leaving school to continue their education on sound lines of general culture and to develop their special ajiti tudes and talents. It is hoped thus to bring within reach some of the opportunities for culture for which in the past it has been necessary for parents to send their daughters ln this way students will be able to use their leisure wisely and so furnish their minds that they will become cultivated, interesting women and gracious hostesses and home-makers.
The individual progress, welfare and happiness of every student are the personal care of the principal, Miss Nancy Jobson, M.A., who has had a wide experience as a headmistress.
All classes are held within the school under the direction of teachers of repute and experience.
Pupils can receive tuition in a wide range of subjects: modern languages, diction and dramatic art, music, etching, dancing (ballroom and clas sical), domestic science, art and etching, secretarial
work, etc. .
In addition to sleeping accommodation for twenty boarders, Hopewood House provides for the use of students a well-equipped library, a music ana common room, a gymnasium, and a studio. Ihere are sleeping-out balconies, sun-rooms, large grass tennis court in splendid condition.
