1915 Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, Ingham

1915 – PRESENT

Four Sisters of Mercy – Mary Aloysius, Mary Teresa, Mary Veronica and Mary Winifred – established Our Lady of Lourdes Convent in Ingham in 1915. Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School was opened the same year, with classes being taught in the old presbytery at St Patrick’s Church. The sisters also offered a boarding school, and the reception from the community was such that the number of students soon exceeded the space in the classroom. When this happened the sisters alternated between teaching in the classroom and under the shade of a tamarind tree on the school grounds. The Sisters of Mercy remained at the school until 2003.