Mater Dei Special School

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| schooltype = Independent co-educational inclusive day school

| denomination = Roman Catholic

| religious_affiliation = {{bulleted list|Catholic Education Diocese of Wollongong|Good Samaritan Education}}

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| principal = Jennifer Foldes{{cite web|url=https://www.materdei.org.au/our-school/|title=Our School|publisher=Mater Dei Special School|access-date=2024-04-15}}

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| enrolment = 136

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| location = {{NSWcity|Camden}}, New South Wales

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Mater Dei School is an independent Good Samaritan Education co-educational inclusive day school located in the outer south-western Macarthur region of Sydney, in the rural town of {{NSWcity|Camden}}, in New South Wales, Australia. The school is part of a broader organisation of the same name, Mater Dei, and provides early intervention and early childhood education for babies and children with a developmental delay, and education and therapy services for children and young people with an intellectual disability.

The school is one of four programs part of Mater Dei: Mater Dei School, as the oldest and original educational offering, NextPath Continuous Learning, NextPath Assessment & Therapy and Mater Dei Early Childhood Education.

History

Mater Dei School was established in 1910 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, originally as an orphanage for orphans who lived in the inner city areas of Sydney. In 1957 the Bishop of Wollongong requested to establish a school for girls with intellectual disabilities and the Sisters accepted the request.{{cite web |title=History |url=http://www.materdei.org.au/mater-dei-history |website=Mater Dei |accessdate=14 July 2015}}

The school occupies the site of the historic mansion, Wivenhoe, designed by John Verge and built in 1837 for Charles Cowper and his wife, Eliza.{{cite web |first=John M. |last=Ward |title=Cowper, Sir Charles (1807–1875) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cowper-sir-charles-3275/text4967 |date=1969 |access-date=20 June 2020 }}{{cite book |author1=Powell, Alan |title=Patrician democrat: the political life of Charles Cowper, 1843-1870 |year=1977 |publication-date=1977 |publisher=Melbourne University Press | isbn=978-0-522-84132-9 |page=8 }}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30934929 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=18 November 1864 |access-date=20 June 2020 |page=7 |via=Trove, National Library of Australia }}

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