New Zealand - Dunedin - St Hilda's Collegiate School - Form 3F - 1978 Do you have more information about the school or the people in this photo? Please use the comment section below to share. To search for other photos from this school, please type the schools name in to our search engine. St Hilda's Collegiate School - A secondary school for girls in Dunedin - Founded as an Anglican school in 1896 by the first bishop of Dunedin, Bishop Samuel Nevill and staffed by the Sisters of the Church. - The sisters withdrew from the school in the 1930s. - St Hilda's is the only school of the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin - The school is named after Saint Hilda, a 7th-century English abbess remembered for the influential role she played in the Synod of Whitby Dunedin - The second-largest city in the South Island - The principal city of the Otago region - Its name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. - The urban area of Dunedin lies on the central-eastern coast of Otago - The largest New Zealand city by territorial land area until superseded by Auckland with the formation of the Auckland Council in November 2010.