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    Notre Dame High School, Norwich: A celebration of the first 150 years 1864–2014
    Notre Dame High School, Norwich: A celebration of the first 150 years 1864–2014
    Notre Dame High School, Norwich: A celebration of the first 150 years 1864–2014
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    Notre Dame High School, Norwich: A celebration of the first 150 years 1864–2014

    By John Eady

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    For a century and a half Notre Dame High School has occupied a central position in Norwich, and within the Roman Catholic community of East Anglia. This book traces the school's founding, the development of the school site, its transition from a Catholic convent with a day and boarding school to a direct grant girls' grammar school, through to its becoming a mixed comprehensive and today's academy. Drawing on the school's archive, and the memories and experiences of past and present pupils and staff, a vivid picture emerges of an energetic and progressive school that continues to build on the values of its founding Sisters. This book will appeal to all members of the Notre Dame community, and to anyone with a passing interest in education and the history of Catholicism in East Anglia.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781784420345
    Notre Dame High School, Norwich: A celebration of the first 150 years 1864–2014

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      Notre Dame High School, Norwich - John Eady

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      PREFACE

      It is an incredible privilege to be part of this wonderful school as it celebrates 150 years since its foundation by the Sisters of Notre Dame. I think that those six Sisters would be amazed by the changes that Notre Dame High School has seen in those 150 years – the buildings, the technology, the curriculum, even perhaps the presence of boys in this school. However, I think they would still recognise the core purpose and values that they embodied in their work. The founding Sisters of Notre Dame would see that our Catholic values inspire us and that we develop through caring for those around us. They would see that we know that a good education provides the best opportunity in life, and that we want everyone to be successful, to be happy, to feel loved and to feel part of a community. The Sisters would still recognise that the educational journey through Notre Dame, as we grow and develop, leaves a lasting impression and memories to treasure. I think their educational and spiritual values – placing our faith in God at the centre of what we do – still reverberates throughout this school and that ethos remains the powerful driving force behind this school.

      This history of the first 150 years is a wonderful record of the work and achievements of the Sisters of Notre Dame, the many staff and the huge number of students who have passed through this school. On behalf of everyone currently involved with the school I would like to thank all who have been involved in the production of this book, and the legacy of all those who have contributed to the first 150 years of education at Notre Dame High School in Norwich.

      Brian Conway

      Head teacher

      Saint Julie Billiart (1751–1816). Contemporary portrait of the founder of the Order.

      FIRST STEPS: NORWICH 1864

      THE TRAIN FROM LONDON STEAMED SLOWLY IN TO Norwich station on the morning of 13 October 1864. Amongst the alighting passengers were six English Sisters of the Order of Notre Dame de Namur. The first nuns in Norwich since the Reformation, they were undoubtedly the object of much curiosity and some suspicion. First through the station barrier, carrying a statue of Our Lady, the Mother of Christ, was Sister Anne of St John. She was followed by Sister Stanislaus of the Immaculate Conception, Sister Aloyse of the Cross, Sister Clare of the Cross, the novice Sister Mary Anne Joseph and their Superior, Sister Mary of the Redemption. So began the story of the Sisters in Norwich, and the school they founded.

      At that time, life in Norwich epitomised a mixture of Victorian practices and the foundations of modern society. For a city that was later proudly to boast it had a pub for every day of the year, in the mid-nineteenth century there were a staggering 600 pubs. Poverty was endemic, particularly in the notorious yards lining Ber Street, which housed deprived families in wretched conditions. The general health of the city population was extremely poor; in the 1870s medical journal The Lancet reported that Norwich had the highest mortality rate of twenty large towns and cities it had surveyed. The world the Sisters entered was undoubtedly harsh and brutal, with the last public hanging, from gallows erected between the gatehouses leading up to Norwich Castle, occurring as late as 1867. Nevertheless the city was the perfect place for the Sisters, whose mission to serve the poor and educate children concentrated on areas of urban deprivation, particularly in regions where there was a dearth of Catholics.

      The Order of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur owed its existence to the founding vision of Julie Billiart, a villager from Cuvilly in Picardy, approximately 60 miles north of Paris. Born on 12 July 1751, Julie attended her village school, where her spirituality and gifts for communicating the love of God were soon recognised.

      Ber Street, 1908. The main thoroughfare for driving cattle to the huge market below the castle until 1960. Colloquially known as ‘Blood and Guts’ Street due to its association with the well-known butchery trade, Ber Street bordered the convent land and housed poor families in the squalid conditions of the yards. When the Sisters first arrived there were upwards of 25 pubs along this old Roman road.

      The

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