St Andrew's Anglican College, Independent Private Sunshine Coast School, Peregian Springs, minutes from Noosa Sunshine Coast

Welcome to 2012 at St Andrew's

REVEREND CHRIS IVEY
Welcome
As Principal, I welcome you to St. Andrew's Anglican College, Peregian Springs - an award winning, leading independent private school near Noosa on the Sunshine Coast. We are a unique community, one that focuses on the importance of relationships to enable each child to reach their personal best. I am continually humbled by the extraordinary achievements and actions of our community and it is for this reason that we bring you to our website, to share with you the 'reality' that is St. Andrew's. ...[read more]

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2013 Scholarships

Applications for  2013 Scholarships are now open.  Recipients receive a discount on tuition fees or in the case of our new Principal's Scholarship, 100% remission of tuition fees.  Scholarships available include, Academic, The Principal's, Music, and General Excellence including Visual and Performing Arts and Sport.  Current and external students are encouraged to apply.  For more details see our web page here or contact Mrs Sue Sagar on 54715555.

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Mia wins National award
A huge congratulations to Mia Wray in Year 12 who achieved incredible success over the holidays. Mia is now recognised as one of the top up and coming music performers in Australia after winning the Peoples Choice award at the recent Telstra 2012 Road to Discovery Final at the 40th Tamworth Country Music Festival. She thoroughly earned her place at the event after making it through Regional heats then State heats and finally making the top 10 performers. Look out world..Mia has arrived. You can follow her progress here

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2012 Road to Discovery final at the 40th Tamworth Country Music Festival achieved

Australian Success
The College would like to congratulate six of our outstanding students who achieved phenomenal success over the holidays. The following stiudents have achieved National recognition - Louise and Kye Evans - Australian Sailing team, Tiana Soggard Andersen Australian Water Polo team, Brodie Modini Australian Athletics 1500m Athletics Champion, Remy Fairweather broke Hayley Lewis' 22 yr old swimming record. Brittany Cashman Australian Surf Lifesaving Flags Champion. I am sure the entire community extends their warmest congratulations to these students and their families on their incredible achievements. for more information go here

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Information for starting school.

 

2012 is a very exciting year in the life of the College as we celebrate our tenth year of operation. We look forward to sharing this milestone with our wonderful community.

School Hours 2012 (whole College):  8:30am – 3:00pm

Please note that Secondary will commence each day with House Groups at 8:30am and finish at 3:00pm (not 3:05pm).

 

A Reminder: Shoe and Hair Requirements

We are very proud of our uniform and we expect all students to arrive on the first day back in the correct uniform. Shoes are to be black,  leather lace up school shoes with a minimum of 1cm rise in the heel but not high heels.  They can not be skate or surf or ballet type or black leather runners.

Boys hair must be neat and off the collar and not able to hang over the eyes.  Girls hair must be neat and if long, tied back with navy, white or red ribbons or scrunchies. Please also remember the College policy on jewellery and make-up. We thank you for your assistance in upholding our wonderful image.

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Outstanding Academic success
The College is amazingly proud of all our Year 12 students who have achieved success at so many different levels. In terms of statistics:

• Five students achieved an OP 1, which is an outstanding result.  Congratulations to, Tom Shannon, Ellen Foster, Aprile Wenke, Sterling Tebbett and Georgia Harman. This equates to 10.6% of our cohort, one of the highest percentages in the state.
• 21% received an OP of 1 or 2, far above the state average of just under 6%.
• 34% received an OP of 1  - 5.
• Our most remarkable statistic is that our OP 1 – 15 result, often used by the media to rank schools in terms of their Year 12 results, is 100%.  In our collective experiences of education in Queensland, 100% is extremely rare and usually only achieved in small schools with enrolments less than 10 in Year 12.

As these results come out, we also begin to hear of other offers made to our students.  Our boys College captain (Sam Johnson) was the recipient of an $83,000 scholarship to undertake Engineering through the University of NSW Co-op program.  Emily Wells was selected out of thousands of applicants to attend NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, in 2012.  Shaun Cornish has been invited to start as an apprentice chef at the Hyatt Coolum which is a very rare occurrence but an opportunity that Shaun will undertake with real passion and commitment.

These results are testament to the hard work of our Year 12 students, but also the support of their parents in encouraging them throughout their education.  It is certainly a wonderful result and the combined efforts of so many people is what enables students to achieve.

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Remy creates History
Congratulations to St. Andrew's student Remy Fairweather who has created Australian swimming history when she broke one of the longest standing age-group AUSTRALIAN records being held by Hayley Lewis for 22 years !!! The record is now Remy's. The event was 14 years Girls 400m Freestyle in a time of 4:10.55, this also got her a bronze medal in the OPEN State 400m FINAL. She is now the fastest 13 yr old and 14 year old ever in Australian swimming history in this event. On behalf of everyone at St. Andrew's - congratulations Remy - We are very proud of you. Here is an audio file of her coach being interviewed on ABC radio about Remy

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Water Polo - Queensland teams announced
Congratulations to six St. Andrew's students who have been selected in the Queensland U14 Water Polo squads announced today. They are Nic Porter, Dylan Coolican, Juliano Cerasani, Cameron Boldy, Fraser Hopkins and Jacqui Sjogren. a wonderful achievement and thoroughly well deserved after performing brilliantly at the Queensland Water Polo Championships.

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Year 4-6 Awards
It was a wonderful evening of recognition and celebration as the College recognised every student in Year 4-6 for their outstanding contribution to the College. It was a fun filled evening with terrific musical performances. Congratulations to all recipients. We also farewelled Mrs Sharon Lollback, a foundation staff member and Deputy Head of Primary School. Our best wishes to Sharon as she takes up her new position as Principal at the Lakes College for 2012.

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Celebration of Learning
Congratulations to our Prep - Year 3 students who celebrated a great 2011 and performed at a wonderful Christmas concert. Congratulations to all Prep - Year 3 students on a wonderful year and thank you for your outstanding contributions to the College. Thank you to the many families who supported this great event. More images are available here

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Swimming carnival
Congratulations to our Year 3-6 swimmers on a wonderful carnival . The spirit, enthusiasm and talent was fantastic. A huge thanks to the students, staff and families for their great support. More images and video production is available here

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2012 Stationery Packs

Officemax are no longer able to guarantee delivery of book packs by the beginning of term 1.   These can still be ordered on-line from Tewantin Newsagency from the following link.

 

https://www.tewantinnews.com.au/bookorders/index.cfm

 

Alternatively, the following local newsagencies have also stocked St Andrew’s stationery items if you would like to purchase these from their store.

• Coolum Village News
• Peregian Beach Newsagency

The stationery list is available here.

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Secondary awards 2011
Congratulations to the Secondary students on a fantastic year. The awards presentation was wonderful as the College was delighted to acknowledge the amazing academic achievements, endeavours and successes of so many in academic subjetcs, aspects of citizenship, community involvement, spirit and leadership. Congratulations to St. Andrew's Dux for 2011, Tom Shannon. Thank you to the award sponsors. The sense of spirit and passion for St. Andrew's was very much evident. More photos are available here

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