Meet Kim Kiepe
MEET
Kim Kiepe
“Ours is a school that encourages individuals to be confident, to have courage and work hard, and to believe they will create their own positive story in life.”
WATCH KIM’S VIDEO
Principal Kim Kiepe
CURATOR OF SOMERVILLE STORIES
It’s a privilege to be the Principal of Somerville House, Brisbane’s leading Presbyterian and Uniting day and boarding school, with an outstanding reputation for academic excellence, state-of-the-art facilities, and extensive curriculum and co-curricular offerings.
Here you will meet over 1300 young women from diverse backgrounds with diverse interests and talents. All enter our School on a level playing field where opportunities are there for the taking. We encourage individuals to be confident, to have courage and work hard, and to believe they will create their own positive story in life.
It is a privilege to bear witness to what these fearless girls become – artists, scientists, educators, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, musicians, doctors, lawyers, writers, Olympians and more – testimony to just some of Somerville’s bold, connected, change-makers.
I invite you to come visit our campus and see how your daughter’s life can be written large here.
“Ours is a school that encourages individuals to be confident, to have courage and work hard, and to believe they will create their own positive story in life.”
WATCH KIM’S VIDEO
Principal Kim Kiepe
CURATOR OF SOMERVILLE STORIES
It’s a privilege to be the Principal of Somerville House, Brisbane’s leading Presbyterian and Uniting day and boarding school, with an outstanding reputation for academic excellence, state-of-the-art facilities, and extensive curriculum and co-curricular offerings.
Here you will meet over 1300 young women from diverse backgrounds with diverse interests and talents. All enter our School on a level playing field where opportunities are there for the taking. We encourage individuals to be confident, to have courage and work hard, and to believe they will create their own positive story in life.
It is a privilege to bear witness to what these fearless girls become – artists, scientists, educators, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, musicians, doctors, lawyers, writers, Olympians and more – testimony to just some of Somerville’s bold, connected, change-makers.
I invite you to come visit our campus and see how your daughter’s life can be written large here.
Facilities
STUDENTS AT SOMERVILLE HOUSE ARE SPOILED FOR CHOICE WITH EXTENSIVE FACILITIES DESIGNED TO SUPPORT THEIR DIVERSE RANGE OF PASSIONS, AS WELL AS THE BROAD CURRICULUM AND CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMS ON OFFER.
Whilst the School has numerous vertical buildings, there are separate areas for Junior and Senior School students, a purpose-built Early Learning Centre, separate Prep classrooms and distinctive undercover areas for eating lunch and quiet time.
The current facilities are a blend of heritage-listed buildings, which are preserved for future generations and state-of-the-art, contemporary, purpose-designed buildings, classrooms, and sporting precincts to provide for the needs of 21st century learning.
COMMUNITY:
- Chapel – Heritage Listed Chapel
- Under the Clock – our very own café
- Somerfare School Tuckshop
- Somerwear Uniform Shop
- Outside School Hours Care precinct
- Jesse Andrews Archives Room
PERFORMING ARTS VENUE:
- The Valmai Pidgeon Performing Arts Centre seats 1000
LIBRARIES:
- Junior School Constance Cotton Library
- Senior School Seymour Library
SPECIALIST LEARNING FACILITIES:
- Science Labs
- Drama Rooms
- Soundproof Music Tuition Rooms
- Art Rooms
SPORTS / OUTDOOR FACILITIES:
- Sports Oval
- Somerville House Tennis Centre – four full-sized tennis courts
- Murray Evans Sports and Aquatic Centre – A multi-purpose indoor sports stadium (for Basketball, Netball, Volleyball and Badminton) with Gymnastic Annexe and Gymnasium and an eight lane 50m heated swimming pool (for swimming and water polo)
- Dunn Road sports fields (Cross Country, Soccer, Hockey, Touch Football, Softball and Netball)
- The Shed (Rowing Venue, Brisbane Corso, Yeronga)
- Equestrian
