The school was built and nurtured on the belief that its founding principal Ms Frances Lilian Charlton foresaw the future intersectional battles of being an indigenous woman. Her work was supported by that of Taufa Vakatale, the first Fijian to be principal at ACS, that modern Fiji needed women leaders who schooled in their culture and tradition and who would yet excel in all spaces they enter with the aim of making the world better by their having been there.