Our school wasn’t always here, so what were the grounds used for before they were used as school grounds?
Well, we have the answers. Our grounds belonged to the government, and they leased it out to the Holy Trinity
Church (see picture below), and before that, the area was used as a convict burial ground, where all the convicts that died or were killed at the Hobart Gaol (now called the
Penitentiary Chapel) got buried.
5 113 people were once buried here! Don’t worry, all the dead people were taken to the Cornelian Bay Cemetery in
1923, three years before our school was built.
A rivulet used to run through the cemetery grounds, and it’s still running, except it’s underneath our school in pipes!
Our grounds were the second grounds chosen by the
Trinity Church, the first grounds were St David’s Park, which was, and still is, right next to the Holy Trinity church
(just without any bodies still buried there).
The record of burials at the Holy Trinity church burial ground finished in 1872, the same year the cemetery closed.
Our source material is a secondary source
(written by someone who wasn’t

actually there) and it is about the Trinity church burial grounds. The documents were written by
Brian Rieusset the picture is from : http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasmemory
By Annie and Tima.