St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please discuss this issue on the talk page or replace this tag with a more specific message.
This article has been tagged since September 2006.

Saint Patrick's College, Shorncliffe

Certa Bonum Certamen, "Fight the Good Fight"
Established	1952
School type	Independent
Principal/ Headmaster	Prof. Michael Carroll
Location	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Campus	Shorncliffe
Enrollment	960
School colours	Green and Gold
Homepage	http://www.stpatricks.qld.edu.au/

St. Patrick's College is situated on the waterfront in Shorncliffe, north of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia. The private independent school was established in 1952 and celebrated its fiftieth year of operation in 2002. The school currently has nine hundred and sixty students enrolled across eight grades (Years 5 - 12). S.P.C. is one of eight schools that is a part of the A.I.C. Associated Independent Colleges and competes against such schools as St. Laurence's College, Marist College Ashgrove, Iona College, Padua College, St. Edmund's College, St. Peter's Lutheran College and Villanova College. The college's motto is "Certa Bonum Certamen" which is Latin and translates to "Fight the Good Fight".

The college now has six Houses: Coffey (blue), Mooney (green), O'Rourke (yellow), Quane (red), Ryan (white) and Kennedy (purple). Kennedy House is the newest addition to the vertical House system, with its inception in 2007.

[edit] Notable Alumni

Cheynee Stiller - Brisbane Lions AFL Player
Michael Crocker - Melbourne Storm Rugby League Player
Darren Bowley - Australian Big Brother 2006 contestant
Drew Mitchell - Queensland Reds / Australian Rugby Union player
Tony Fitzgerald - The Honourable Justice Tony Fizgerald AC chaired Queensland's anti-corruption Inquiry in the late 1980s Fitzgerald Inquiry and several other Inquiries.