The Aranmore Catholic College is a co-educational school for ages 7-12, located in Leederville in Perth, Western Australia. History The College was founded in 1903 by the Sisters of Mercy and was originally known as Arranmore, a name taken from Arranmore Island off Ireland’s Donegal coast, with its official title being Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School. The first Mass was said on the 27 May 1903, and in April of the next year a new church-school building was ready for use and the sisters moved to Leederville. They lived in a cottage on the corner of Marian and Shakespeare Street. The school was facing Marian Street and was situated where the main playing/recreation area is located now. The Convent and the school were very much intertwined. In the early days and during the war, 12 girls boarded at Arranmore. A purpose-built Convent was opened on the 21 November 1933 and was known as St Mary’s Convent under the patronage of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. Both girls and boys attended this school from kindergarten to seventh grade, at which point the boys left to continue their education elsewhere. The girls usually continued on to the high school as it was then known. In 1942, Monsignor Moloney invited the Christian Brothers to come to Leederville and start a boys’ only school commencing at Grade 4 and the Brothers enrolled, in the next few years, boys from Grade 4 to Leaving Certificate. Education on the girl’s original school site had a primary school and a high school, although all students after grade 7 went to the high school. This really meant that the school fee at the primary school was cheaper than the fee charged at the high school and a different uniform was worn. There was fierce competition between these two schools on the same site, particularly when it came to sports and education endeavours. This friendly rivalry continued until 1954 when a new school was built, also by Monsignor Moloney, named St Mary’s College, and catered for all students from Grade 1 to Year 12. The first Federal Government grant to come to St Mary’s was in 1967 when Mother Edmund (Sr Joan Flynn), then Principal of St Mary’s College, received a Grant for the Science Block, situated on the corner of Marian and Shakespeare Street. With foresight in mind, in 1972 the Principals of the two colleges (St