History
Beginnings
Huntingtower commenced as a co-educational boarding school in Huntingtower Road, Armadale in February 1927. Huntingtower was the name of the original house was built by John Crawley in 1858. Later the twelve acre block was divided in half by Huntingtower Road. The fourteen room “gentlemans’ residence”, was purchased for the school in 1926. It is presumed that the house itself was itself named after Huntingtower Castle in Scotland.
Expansion
At the end of that first year, there were fifty students (including twelve boarders) from kindergarten to Year 11. There were four permanent teachers and eight visiting teachers. During the next two decades, the school expanded to a point where it was necessary to sell the Huntingtower Road property and move to a new site in Mount Waverley. The present campus was opened in 1954.
Nosce Te Ipsum
The school crest includes an open book, symbolising the availability of all knowledge to the seeker, and the interwoven letters ‘HT’. The motto Nosce te Ipsum is a Latin translation of the demand that is made of each Huntingtower student: ‘Know thy true self’.
