40 Years of Co-Education

On 10 September 1985 Sally Stewart didn’t just start a new school, she made history. When she nervously walked into Assembly, she marked the beginning of co-education at a school that had been a male preserve for more than 400 years.

Sally came to Christ College from St David’s Ursuline Convent School, which was on Glamorgan Street in Brecon until 1997. In fact, Convent girls had been joining classes at Christ College since 1967. Though they also performed in Christ College drama productions and sang with Christ College in the Choral Society, Sally was the first girl to enrol as a Christ College pupil and proudly wear the ‘h’.

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