St Margaret's Anglican Girls School is a private, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls. The school is located in Ascot, an inner-northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The school was founded in 1895 by the Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent. It has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently enrolls approximately 1175 students from Pre-Preparatory to Year 12, including 185 boarders from Years 5 to 12. St Margaret's has eight Houses: Chaucer, Bede, Herrick, Kendall, Tennyson, Milton, Spenser and Lawson. St Margaret's is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), and is a founding member of the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association (QGSSSA). History In 1895, The Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent opened a boarding School for girls in Eton High School, a former boys' school at Nundah. The school was on land bounded by Bishop Street, Buckland Road, Wand Street and Olive Street. Sister Emma was the Sister-in-Charge and Isabelle Caine was the Headmistress. In 1907, the school moved to Toorak House in Hamilton, Juliet Lyon (1907–1917) replaced Caine, and the school roll grew to 35 pupils. As well as the usual lessons, students participated in tennis, rowing, basketball, and swimming. Three years later the school moved again to Albion Heights. It was housed in Donatello, a home built in the 1880s for Patrick Durack. The building was renamed St Margaret’s House and the school’s name changed to the Church of England High School. Two years later the school became known as St Margaret’s Church of England Girls’ School and has remained on this site ever since. Donatello is still in use today as the community house for the Sisters. By 1910 there were 47 boarders and when The University of Queensland opened in 1911, two St Margaret’s girls were among its first students. Lyon resigned in 1917 and was the last lay Headmistress until 1978. It was during Lyon’s time that the School motto, Per Volar Sunata (Born to Fly Upwards), came into being and the middy uniform was introduced. Under the leadership of Sister Teresa (1918–25) the School grew and the adjoining property, Avoca, was acquired in 1918 to provide extra accommodation. It was originally named Mooloomburram when it was built in 1886 by