All Saints Anglican School

All Saints Anglican School ("ASAS" or "All Saints") is a private, co-educational school established in 1987 under the Aegis of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane. The school is located on a 40-hectare campus in the Gold Coast Hinterland. All Saints is divided into three sub-schools: the Junior School (kindergarten to Year 6), the Middle School (Years 7 to 9) and the Senior School (Years 10 to 12). It has a total student body of approximately 1850 students. In 2012 All Saints celebrated its 25th year on November 1 (Foundation Day). The School operates from the premise that every child is capable of achieving in extraordinary ways and are passionate about fulfilling the mission to celebrate and nurture youth and creativity in all its forms.

All Saints has established a reputation as one of Queensland's leading independent schools with excellent academic results.

Merrimac Campus

All Saints is very well resourced with state of the art facilities. The School houses two swimming pools, one indoor and one outdoor, both heated. It also has extensive playing fields and sporting facilities including a large three-storey Health and Physical Education Centre including a well resourced work-out room, outdoor basketball, tennis, hockey and volleyball courts and a small golf course. The campus also features a multi-level science facility complete with a lecture theatre for over 200 students, a purpose built music centre and a professional theatre space consisting of the main theatre seating 530 (the Nairn Theatre), a smaller theatre (the Dell'Arte), a full costume department and a green room. The Holloway Music Centre consists of two large practice spaces for band and choral rehearsals, classrooms and a number of individual sound-proof studios used for individual or small group tuition. A new Chapel, with magnificent stain glass windows, was completed in early 2012. All classrooms are air-conditioned.

House system

The Junior School consists of four different houses named after the dairy farms that were previously located near the School campus: Lyndon, Oakey, Talgai, and Clovelly.

The Middle and Senior Schools together have eight houses named after School Council Members: Fradgley, McIntosh, Day, Burling, Burchill, Reeves, Hobart, and Rapp.

A variety of activities are undertaken via house based competitions including swimming, athletics, cross country, chess, singing and public speaking.

Notable alumni

Famous students who went to All Saints Anglican School include:

• Andrew Symonds (Australian Cricketer)
• Giaan Rooney (Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer)
• Jordan Harrison (Commonwealth Games fourth placed long distance swimmer)
• Ben Daley (Rugby Union player)
• Sam Norton-Knight (Rugby Union player)
• Taylor Henderson (Operator Please Violinist)
• Thomas Oar (Soccer Player)
• Tameka Butt (Soccer Player)
• Kurt Tippett (Australian Rules Footballer)
• Jade Neilsen (Swimmer)
• Tom Nicholls (Australian Rules Footballer)
• Taylor Hine (Australian Rules Footballer)
• Lachie Weller (Australian Rules Footballer)
• Maverick Weller (Australian Rules Footballer)
• Cody Simpson (Singer)

ASAS International

The School also has its own English Language Centre called International House. It gives international students the option to live either on campus in its boarding facility which houses 40 students or in homestay accommodation while they complete short term English language courses or attend the school in mainstream classes.

Extracurricular activities

All Saints offers a wide variety of extra-curricular activities including music, drama, choir and sporting activities. A variety of outdoor experiences are also offered at the School and participating students learn physical skills and leadership. As well, the School offers the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and holiday ski trips. Students may also participate in a number of language and cultural experiences and trips which are regularly undertaken to New Caledonia, France, Japan, China, Italy and Spain.

The Japanese Language Supplementary School of Queensland Japanese School of Gold Coast (ゴールドコースト校 Gōrudo Kōsuto Kō), a weekend Japanese school, holds its classes at All Saints. It maintains its school office in Surfers Paradise.^[1]

External links

• All Saints Anglican School's website

References