Padua College
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Padua College is a Roman Catholic boys' school in Brisbane
, Australia. The college derives its name from franciscan
friar
Saint Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), appointed by St. Francis
as the first Professor of Theology for the friars. Padua
is the university
city of Northern Italy
where St Anthony died. Students of the college are known in the community as Paduans. The college, located in the northern suburb of Kedron
, draws students from the central, north and west areas of Brisbane.
primary school of St Anthony, were no longer able to cater for the large number of boys in their school. At the request of Sister Mary Bernadette
O’Callaghan OSF, the Friars, who had taken charge of the Kedron
parish since 1929, agreed to begin a separate school for boy
s.
Fr. Damian Nolan OFM, was appointed nominal Rector
of the new school
, which began with two lay teachers
, Mrs Eileen Cameron and Mr John Fox, and 89 boys in Years 4, 5 and 6. The Friars began teaching in the school in 1957 with the arrival of Fr Alban Mitchell OFM, Fr Angelo O’Hagan OFM, and a little later Fr Odoric (Hugh) Fathers OFM.
Since that time, Padua has developed with many extensions and facilities. At present there are over 1200 students enrolled at the College.
In November 2006, former Rector and now current Chaplain
Fr. John Boyd-Boland released his book "On A Cragged Hill - A Fifty Year Story" reliving the events and history of Padua College since its beginnings in 1956.
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(AIC) and Combined Independent Colleges (CIC)
whose sporting competitions usually take place on Saturdays.
Padua College has won the confraternity shield numerous times with their last title in 2005. Padua rugby league
alumni include Paul Vautin
, Shane Perry
, David Stagg
, David Shillington
, David Bouveng
and Dane Carlaw
.
events, chess
competitions and music
and drama
programs. In addition, the College also enters teams into the Associated Independent Colleges
competition for the following sports: Swimming
, Water Polo
, Cricket
, Volleyball
, Rugby
, AFL, Football (soccer)
, Tennis
, Basketball
, Golf
, Athletics. Chess
and Cross Country
.
All boys are encouraged to compete in the College's annual Inter-House Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics Carnivals. Padua College has its playing fields on a 73,000m2 site at Elliot Road Banyo for cricket, rugby and soccer. Padua has an ongoing rivalry with their northside counterparts in the AIC St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe
due to both being of almost equal sporting talent and of their close vicinity to each other. The Northside Challenge is a sporting challenge between the two schools for Rugby and Soccer. In the First XV rugby Padua are the current holders after defeating SPC
in round 6 of the AIC competition, and in process become AIC First XV premiers. In Soccer SPC
are the holders after defeating the Padua First XI convincingly in the same round.
Padua has a well-equipped Music Department which includes a recording studio
and sound-proof drum
room. Tuition
is available in all orchestral instruments. The orchestras at the college are generally of a high quality and a wide variety of instruments are available for student hire. Students are frequently encouraged to take up viola as the high prevalence of students who quit provides a large amount of instruments for hire. Students are encouraged to become members of the Concert Band
s, Big Band
, String Orchestra
s and Symphony Orchestra. All Year 8 students study piano
and guitar
as part of the ordinary school curriculum. Music is taught as a Board Subject in Years 9 through to 12. Every alternate year the boys and girls from Mt Alvernia and Padua College produce a stage musical
. Recent productions have included Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
, Les Misérables
, Jesus Christ Superstar
, and Oliver!
. The latest collaborative production between the two schools is High School Musical: The Musical!, released in May 2010.
Padua College has an outdoor education centre called "Amaroo" at Pomona on the Sunshine Coast. Most year levels visit the camp every year. Amaroo is located on 68.8 hectares of lush rainforest and boasts luxurious facilities including a high and low ropes course and rock climbing walls. The outdoor education centre is located closely to Lake Cootharaba and canoeing is involved regularly.
In addition to in-school facilities and the Outdoor Education Centre, the school owns 73,000m2 of playing fields on Elliot Rd, Banyo, which is used for rugby, soccer and athletics carnivals.
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Australia. The college derives its name from franciscan
Franciscan
Most Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides Roman Catholic communities, there are also Old Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, ecumenical and Non-denominational Franciscan communities....
friar
Friar
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders.-Friars and monks:...
Saint Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), appointed by St. Francis
Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St...
as the first Professor of Theology for the friars. Padua
Padua
Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...
is the university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
city of Northern Italy
Northern Italy
Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative usage, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state, also referred as Settentrione or Alta Italia...
where St Anthony died. Students of the college are known in the community as Paduans. The college, located in the northern suburb of Kedron
Kedron
Kedron may refer to:* Kedron Brook, a creek that flows through the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia* Kedron, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia* Kedron State High School, a secondary school located in Queensland, Australia...
, draws students from the central, north and west areas of Brisbane.
History of the college
Padua began in 1956 when the Franciscan Sisters, who cared for the parishParish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...
primary school of St Anthony, were no longer able to cater for the large number of boys in their school. At the request of Sister Mary Bernadette
Bernadette
Bernadette is a first name, the female form of Bernard. It may refer to:* St. Bernadette Soubirous, the Marian visionary of Lourdes* Bernadette Bowyer, Canadian field hockey player* Bernadette Chirac, wife of former French President Jacques Chirac...
O’Callaghan OSF, the Friars, who had taken charge of the Kedron
Kedron
Kedron may refer to:* Kedron Brook, a creek that flows through the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia* Kedron, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia* Kedron State High School, a secondary school located in Queensland, Australia...
parish since 1929, agreed to begin a separate school for boy
Boy
A boy is a young male human , as contrasted to its female counterpart, girl, or an adult male, a man.The term "boy" is primarily used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions or both...
s.
Fr. Damian Nolan OFM, was appointed nominal Rector
Rector
The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...
of the new school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
, which began with two lay teachers
Laity
In religious organizations, the laity comprises all people who are not in the clergy. A person who is a member of a religious order who is not ordained legitimate clergy is considered as a member of the laity, even though they are members of a religious order .In the past in Christian cultures, the...
, Mrs Eileen Cameron and Mr John Fox, and 89 boys in Years 4, 5 and 6. The Friars began teaching in the school in 1957 with the arrival of Fr Alban Mitchell OFM, Fr Angelo O’Hagan OFM, and a little later Fr Odoric (Hugh) Fathers OFM.
Since that time, Padua has developed with many extensions and facilities. At present there are over 1200 students enrolled at the College.
In November 2006, former Rector and now current Chaplain
Chaplain
Traditionally, a chaplain is a minister in a specialized setting such as a priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam or lay representative of a religion attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, police department, university, or private chapel...
Fr. John Boyd-Boland released his book "On A Cragged Hill - A Fifty Year Story" reliving the events and history of Padua College since its beginnings in 1956.
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Sport
The College is a member of the Associated Independent CollegesAssociated Independent Colleges
The Associated Independent Colleges of Queensland are a group of eight independent schools in Queensland, Australia involved in a variety of sporting and cultural activities. AIC competition is only for male secondary students. Primary schools attached to AIC schools compete against their GPS...
(AIC) and Combined Independent Colleges (CIC)
Combined Independent Colleges (CIC)
The Combined Independent Colleges Junior Sports Association is a group of 14 independent schools in Queensland, Australia. 13 of these schools are based in Brisbane and one is located on the Gold Coast....
whose sporting competitions usually take place on Saturdays.
Padua College has won the confraternity shield numerous times with their last title in 2005. Padua rugby league
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
alumni include Paul Vautin
Paul Vautin
Paul Vautin , is an Australian sports television personality and former rugby league footballer and coach. He currently hosts the NRL Footy Show and provides commentary for the Nine Network's coverage of rugby league matches...
, Shane Perry
Shane Perry
Shane Perry is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Norths Devils of the Queensland Cup His position of choice is in the halves...
, David Stagg
David Stagg
David Stagg is an Australian professional rugby league player for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs of the National Rugby League. A Queensland State of Origin representative utility forward, he previously played for the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 2006 NRL Premiership...
, David Shillington
David Shillington
David Shillington is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Canberra Raiders of the National Rugby League...
, David Bouveng
David Bouveng
David Bouveng attended Padua college, Brisbane, Australia and played in the centers for the school first 13 in the 1991 Confraternity Shield competition in Townsville. Padua college had produced other Rugby League players, including Paul Vautin. Bouveng was scouted at this schoolboy competition...
and Dane Carlaw
Dane Carlaw
Dane Carlaw is an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He currently plays for the Brisbane Broncos in Australia's National Rugby League after spending three years in the European Super League competition playing for French side Catalans Dragons.-Early years:While attending Padua...
.
Co-curricular activities
All boys attending the College are required to represent Padua in co-curricular activities. The College offers students the opportunity to participate in debating and public speakingPublic speaking
Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners...
events, chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
competitions and music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
and drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
programs. In addition, the College also enters teams into the Associated Independent Colleges
Associated Independent Colleges
The Associated Independent Colleges of Queensland are a group of eight independent schools in Queensland, Australia involved in a variety of sporting and cultural activities. AIC competition is only for male secondary students. Primary schools attached to AIC schools compete against their GPS...
competition for the following sports: Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, Water Polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
, Cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, Rugby
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
, AFL, Football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
, Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, Golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, Athletics. Chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
and Cross Country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
.
All boys are encouraged to compete in the College's annual Inter-House Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics Carnivals. Padua College has its playing fields on a 73,000m2 site at Elliot Road Banyo for cricket, rugby and soccer. Padua has an ongoing rivalry with their northside counterparts in the AIC St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe
St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe
St. Patrick's College is a private, Roman Catholic, day school for boys, situated on the waterfront in Shorncliffe, north of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia....
due to both being of almost equal sporting talent and of their close vicinity to each other. The Northside Challenge is a sporting challenge between the two schools for Rugby and Soccer. In the First XV rugby Padua are the current holders after defeating SPC
SPC
SPC may refer to any of the following:in business and law,* Segregated portfolio company, a specialised form of offshore company* Special purpose company or Special purpose vehicle, a subsidiary usually created solely for isolating a financial risk, or for Financial Reporting reasons* Strategic...
in round 6 of the AIC competition, and in process become AIC First XV premiers. In Soccer SPC
SPC
SPC may refer to any of the following:in business and law,* Segregated portfolio company, a specialised form of offshore company* Special purpose company or Special purpose vehicle, a subsidiary usually created solely for isolating a financial risk, or for Financial Reporting reasons* Strategic...
are the holders after defeating the Padua First XI convincingly in the same round.
Padua has a well-equipped Music Department which includes a recording studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
and sound-proof drum
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
room. Tuition
Tuition
Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition in American English and as tuition fees in British English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English and Indian English, refers to a fee charged for educational instruction during higher education.Tuition payments are charged by...
is available in all orchestral instruments. The orchestras at the college are generally of a high quality and a wide variety of instruments are available for student hire. Students are frequently encouraged to take up viola as the high prevalence of students who quit provides a large amount of instruments for hire. Students are encouraged to become members of the Concert Band
Concert band
A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, wind ensemble, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family, and percussion instrument family.A...
s, Big Band
Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
, String Orchestra
String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass , the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion...
s and Symphony Orchestra. All Year 8 students study piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
and guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
as part of the ordinary school curriculum. Music is taught as a Board Subject in Years 9 through to 12. Every alternate year the boys and girls from Mt Alvernia and Padua College produce a stage musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
. Recent productions have included Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
, Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
, Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
, and Oliver!
Oliver!
Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
. The latest collaborative production between the two schools is High School Musical: The Musical!, released in May 2010.
Campus
The college is situated at Kedron on two campuses. The primary department, catering for boys from Years 5 to 7, on the eastern side of Turner Rd and the Year 8 to 12 boys on the western side. Two other Franciscan schools, St. Anthony's and Mt. Alvernia are also in the precinct. Padua College boasts excellent facilities for the students to use. The college has recently refurbished all classrooms, installed more computers and constructed two new buildings; a sports complex and a multi purpose centre containing a library, seminar rooms and computer labs (renovations completed early 2006). Other facilities the school features include:- 25x25m swimming pool
- Rugby-sized oval with a 1500 capacity grandstand
- Indoor basketball, volleyball and tennis courts
- Outdoor basketball, volleyball and tennis courts
- Weights Gymnasium
- Nice Trees
- Large multipurpose hall (La Cordelle Centre)
- Music room with soundproof recording studios
- Secondary and primary libraries
- Fake Grass
- Well-equipped computer rooms
- Science and graphics labs
- Industrial skills centre
- 300-seat auditorium
- St Francis Hall (Main office building)
- Performing Arts Centre (future project)
Padua College has an outdoor education centre called "Amaroo" at Pomona on the Sunshine Coast. Most year levels visit the camp every year. Amaroo is located on 68.8 hectares of lush rainforest and boasts luxurious facilities including a high and low ropes course and rock climbing walls. The outdoor education centre is located closely to Lake Cootharaba and canoeing is involved regularly.
In addition to in-school facilities and the Outdoor Education Centre, the school owns 73,000m2 of playing fields on Elliot Rd, Banyo, which is used for rugby, soccer and athletics carnivals.
Winners of the house competition since 1996 Introduction
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