A. B. Paterson College

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A.B. Paterson College

Excellence, Care, Commitment.
Established	1991
School Type	Private/Independent
Denomination	Nondenominational
Key People	* Mrs. Dawn Lang - Principal Mrs. Alison Robinson - Head of Junior School Mr Scott Pearsal - Director of Student Development Mr Ian Taylor Director of Activities
Location	Arundel, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Enrolment	Around 1500
Colours	Green, Gold, White, Red (displayed on the college flag)
Homepage	http://www.abpat.qld.edu.au/

A. B. Paterson College is a private, non-denominational, co-educational school in Arundel, in the northern Gold Coast region of Queensland, Australia. The school is named after the Australian bush poet A. B. "Banjo" Paterson. Its current principal is Dawn Lang. The college has four Houses, also named after Australian poets each corresponding to one of the primary colours:

Henry Lawson - Red
Judith Wright - Yellow
Dorothea Mackellar - Blue
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis "C. J. Dennis" - Green

The college was the first school in Australia to introduce Teaching for Understanding, which was developed at Harvard University. In July 2006 the school hosted a TFU conference attended by participants from across the world.

It also was the major sponsor for the Grades 4 to 11 Mathematical Modelling Challenge in 2004-2007, Hosted at the Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus).

A. B. Paterson's 2006 Grade 12 OP score rankings were published in the QSA annual school OP achievements table. This ranked A. B. Paterson College as the 3rd highest achieving school in Queensland^[1].