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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The 2012 FAIR - Saturday 26 May 11am to 6pm
Not long to go now until the FAIR.  Much work is happening behind the scenes to make this another fantastic St Andrew's event.  We have new rides booked this year, lots of great entertainment and fabulous stalls.  The Fair will be held on the Secondary Oval this year with a new start time of 11am.
Wristbands for unlimited rides are available to purchase online here for $30.  They will be available to purchase on the day but for $35 each.
The Silent Auction - always a popular stall and open for bidding this year before the Fair on Facebook.  Click here to "like" the page and start bidding.

See you at the FAIR!

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Year 11 Student wins ASSIST Scholarship.

Congratulations to Dani Sjogren who has won a prestigious ASSIST scholarship to study in the USA for the 2012/13 school year. Dani will attend The Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a highly-regarded independent school with a focus on Liberal Arts and academia and a 110 year history that includes Academy, Pulitzer and Emmy award winners as members of their alumni.

American Secondary Schools for International Students and Teachers (ASSIST) was established in the US in 1969 to provide opportunities for young people from other countries to gain a greater understanding of the USA, its culture and traditions. In the upcoming US school year there will be 167 ASSIST scholars, 94 of them on full-scholarship, from 22 countries around the world participating, including 7 Australian students. Members of the Assist board travelled the world in the later part of 2011 interviewing around 600 shortlisted candidates, who had been selected from over 1500 applicants worldwide. “Whilst the application process and interview was challenging” Dani said, “I’m really looking forward to being part of an American school for a year, participating in as many sports and activities as I can and learning more about their culture”.  Congratulations Dani, we can't wait to hear all about this amazing opportunity.

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Year 9's are Urban Bound
Our Year 9 students are well into the Urban Bound program with half of the cohort in Melbourne and the other half working in Brisbane.  Students in Melbourne have been working hard on their investigation projects and have had a wide "big city" experience, travelling on trams and trains, going to an AFL match and the theatre, spending time at Federation Square and the Eureka Tower, working at Ormond College at Melbourne Uni and paddling down the Yarra River.  Perhaps the most humbling experience of all has been their work with the homeless, where they have worked with the St Vincent de Paul Volunteers in the Soup Vans that visit various locations around the city and distribute food to those in need. Pictured here are some students with one of the Soup Vans.

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Young Musicians Research Scholarship Program Recipient
Congratulations to Year 12 Music Extension student Micheala Becker who has gained entry into the Young Musicians Research Scholarship Program, a joint initiative of the State Library of Queensland and the Queensland Conservatorium (Griffith University). This program invites students to join with a team of researchers from the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and research specialists from the State Library of Queensland. St Andrew’s will be represented at this prestigious program for the second year running, with only 10 students selected state-wide. This is an amazing opportunity for a very well deserving recipient. Well done Micheala!

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SnAAC Shack News
Congratulations to our SnAAC Shack on recently being awarded the Gold Menu Award from the Food Smart Schools Initiative.  This award recognises exceptional menus and practices and is a very fitting testament to the work of Dmitri and staff.  This week the SnAAC Shack was even featured on Today Tonight - you can view the story here. Thanks SnAAC Shack for ensuring that we all have healthy and delicious choices!

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Layne Beachley 'inspires' Year 7
We were delghted to welcome Surfing superstar Layne Beachley to the College. Layne worked with our entire Year 7 cohort presenting an "inspire' session. Layne focussed on goal setting, individuality, creating and taking opportunities. The session was very interactive and Layne managed to work with each student. later that afternoon, a large group of girls got the chance to surf with Layne. She was certainly an inspiration - more photos are here. We are delighted that this will be a yearly event for our Year 7 cohort as they enter the Seconday school.



From our College Captain - Laura
WOW!! No words could come together to truly express how amazing working with the cast and crew of Chicago (who became family) has been over the last few months! Thank-you so much to all the cast and crew and especially all the teachers and director Miss Mackie (the best director!!) who put their heart and soul into the production over the past eleven months !! The brilliant reviews and standing ovations were just a fraction of the joy we got from stepping on the J stage over the past week! Every second of each rehearsal paid off, so thank-you once again to all the cast and crew for not only putting on the "Best school production ever at The J. Professional shows would be happy to perform as well as that" ( Mark, theatre manager at the J), but for giving the year elevens and twelve's the most amazing memory of their last school musical !! more photos here
College Captain,
Laura

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Year Six China Tour - A Trip of a Lifetime!

From Tuesday, April 10 until Wednesday, April 25, twenty-one Year Six students and four staff from St Andrew's Anglican College attended Beijing Primary for the annual Friendship School's visit. The tour group had an amazing two weeks experiencing all the sites of Beijing as well as attending classes on Chinese language, culture, sport and history. The children learned so much and had experiences that will remain with them forever. They made new friendships and gained a wonderful understanding of Chinese history and culture. St Andrew's will be hosting a reciprocal visit early in Term Three for Beijing Primary to experience life, culture and education in Australia.

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Thank you to our Grandparents
What a special morning it was when we welcomed hundreds of our Grandparents and Special Friends to join us for Chapel.  It was smiles all around as we discovered who our oldest and tallest and most talented grandparents were!  Congratulations to our students who performed for our grandparents and then welcomed them into the classrooms.  Thank you Grandparents for joining us today!  More photos from the day can be viewed here.

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Congratulations Remy Fairweather
What an incredible talent! Remy performed superbly at the Olympic trials finishing 3rd in the 400m Freestyle and 4th in the 800m Freestyle, all at just 14 years old. She also achieved two Aussie Age records, pbs, Olympic Qualifying times for two events and she still wants to train tomorrow. We are super proud of you Remy and look forward to seeing all your amazing achievements in the future.

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College Cross Country Carnivals 2012 The Primary Twilight Cross country carnival was a brilliant afternoon. The level of running ability is just incredible and the commitment, effort and determination shown by so many is what it means to be a St Andrew's student. Congratulations to all and thank you to the many families who came along to support.... a great event!  Congratulations to all Secondary students on the way you compete and represent your house - absolutely brilliant. Congratulations to Williamson house on winning the overall trophy and duck trophy- outstanding! Love the St Andrew's spirit! More photos are here

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Year 11 Commedia Dell Arte performance examination

Don't be afraid, it's just the Year 11 Drama students at their at their Commedia Dell Arte performance examination this morning! The pieces were really quite remarkable considering the limitations placed on the students to prepare their examination piece based on a list of scenarios provided ten minutes before the show! Our fabulously creative individuals demonstrated their skills, maturity and talent in the time provided.

If you would like to see this remarkable theatre, join us on Wednesday night the 21st of March at 6pm in The Studio.

 

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Leadership Induction
Congratulations to all of our 2012 Leaders who were inducted in a lovely ceremony this week. We know that you will fulfill your roles admirably and be excellent ambassadors for the College.
We were very priviledge to have Brad Carron-Arthur as our guest speaker.  What an incredible young man, himself once a School Captain, Brad is now on a mission to run from Canberra to Cape York unassisted with only what he can carry in his backpack!  His personal story about mental health and his quest to raise awareness is truly inspirational.  You can follow Brad on his website  www.bradrunsnorth.com or on facebook and donate to this worthwhile cause.  Our students really enjoyed running with Brad on the beach this morning as he heads towards Gympie.
If you missed the ceremony you can view some great footage here.

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It was oh so close!
The closest carnival in 10 years when Flinders just pipped our Secondary Swim Carnival team by just two and a half points after 100 races. Congratulations to our team on a superb day. Five individual Age champions and four Age group champions was fantastic! More information is available on our Swimming page. More images also available here

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The 2012 Charity Beach Family Fun Run
The St Andrew's Anglican College spirit was on full display at an amazing afternoon supporting ovarian, breast and prostate cancer research. Over 1000 runners completed the 5km beach run to support our community raising over $6000 for charity. Thank you to all involved who contributed to a great event. It was a great way to kick start the year, supporting our community and getting active. Thank you for your support. All the photos are available here

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Secondary Swim Carnival success

Congratulations to all swimmers for a wonderful Secondary Swim carnival. Rafter house retained the House 'duck' for incredible house spirit and Hocknull won the overall event. A huge thanks to all involved. The participation statistic from the day was huge and is reflective of what it means to be a St Andrew's student. It is credit to the wonderful house spirit and a willingness to get involved by all students that is so impressive. Congratulations to all new record holders as well selected team members. Click here to view all the photos from the day

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Dramatic Arts Go from Strength to Strength

We've just heard that not one, or two but three St Andrew's graduates have been accepted into the NIDA, National Institute for Dramatic Arts, Young Actor Studio Program for 2012.  Congratulations to Emily Wells, Julia Dawson and Max McKenzie who auditioned and were selected to be part of this program from thousands of applicants.  (Max we hear has declined the offer choosing to commence his University degree studying Nutrition and Diatetics at USC.) We hope you all have a fantastic year! It is certainly going to be an amazing year in the Drama department here at St Andrew's with rehearsals building momentum for the 2012 production of CHICAGO!  This is going to be a wow of a production involving around 100 cast and crew and presented at The J in Noosa on 27 and 28 April.  Sponsorship opportunities are available if you would like to take up a great promotional opportunity.  Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information and stay tuned for tickets, going on sale online soon!

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

Australian Success.  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 and listen to her interviewed and perform on ABC radio here.

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Happy Australia Day

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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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's Young Actors Studio Program 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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