Miss Ethel Milne opened a girls' day kindergarten school on Wentworth Street, Manly, in 1880.

[1] A new building was opened in 1905,[7] named 'Vista Reale', and located on the corner of Fairlight Street and The Crescent.

[1] In 1912 the then owner of Brighton College, Miss Mildred Fry, sold the school to Miss Maria Hayes-Williams, the Principal of the Manly High School for Girls (also known as Leona School for Girls, and originally Manly College for Girls), which occupied Leona House, also located on The Crescent.

[9] In 1927 the school moved to what would become its final location, 'Kurrumboola', on the corner of Margaret Street and 38 The Crescent, at the Fairlight end of Manly.

[1] Increased pupil numbers resulted in the establishment of a branch school in 1923, on the eastern side of Manly.