Clayfield College
Luceat Lux Vestra (Latin:"Let Your Light Shine")
Established	1931
School Type	Independent, Single-sex, Day & Boarding
Denomination	Uniting Church & Presbyterian
Key People	Mr. Brian Savins (Principal) Rev. David Bernard (Chaplain)
School Fees	AU$8,480 p.a-AU$9,880 p.a (Day School) AU$21,340 p.a-AU$22,740 p.a (Boarding School)[1]
Location	Clayfield, Queensland, Australia
Enrolment	945 (P-12)[2]
Colours	Green, Gold & Blue
Homepage	www.clayfield.qld.edu.au

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Founded in 1931, the College has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 945 students from Prep to Year 12, including 110 boarders. Boys are enroled from Prep to Year 5, and girls from Prep to Year 12.^[3] College (Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In schools in England and Wales Year Five is the fifth year after reception. ...

Clayfield College is owned by the Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association and is a member of the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association (QGSSSA),^[4] the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),^[5] the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),^[6] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association,^[3] and the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia.^[7] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Presbyterian and Methodist Schools’ Association. ... The Queensland Girls Secondary Schools Sports Association Inc (QGSSSAa) was established in 1908 and was formerly known as the Secondary Schools Sports Association. ... The Junior School Heads Association of Australia, informally known as the JSHAA is an incorporated body representing the heads of independent primary schools in Australia. ...

History

Clayfield College grew out of the Brisbane Boys' College (BBC) which was founded in 1902. In 1906 BBC moved to Bayview Terrace, Clayfield. The school moved again in 1930 to its present location at Toowong as the school had outgrown the campus. Subsequently, in 1931 Clayfield College was founded on BBC's former site as the primary school department of Somerville House. The secondary school was established in 1935 and Clayfield was separated from Somerville House. Brisbane Boys College (BBC), founded in 1902, is an all boys school located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ... The commercial centre of Toowong contains several commercial buildings, including the Toowong Village office tower (background) which contains the Toowong Village shopping centre. ... A primary school in Český Těšín, Poland. ... Somerville House is an independent, boarding and day school for girls and is located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ... Secondary school is a term used to describe an institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. ...

In 1939 Clayfield opened its boarding school and chose its motto Luceat Lux Vestra, which may be translated from Latin to "Let Your Light Shine". Clayfield began its house system in 1946 with four houses – Campbell, Gibson, Radcliffe and Youngman, with Henderson incorporated soon after. Ashburn house came later in honour of Clayfield's first principal: Nancy Ashburn. For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... The House System is a traditional feature of British schools, similar to the collegiate system of a university. ...

Clayfield's first principal Nancy Ashburn retired in 1964. Opened the same year, the college’s library was named after her. A science building, a new boarding house, an assembly hall and a separate primary department were built in quick succession. Another boarding house, the music centre, and new classrooms were constructed in the 1970s and 1980s. The college Chapel was built in 1985. In 1997 Clayfield’s Physical Education Centre was built on the former site of the Savoy Theatre and named after the college’s second principal, Ida Kennedy who retired in 1990. The classrooms and boarding house were refurbished and expanded in the 1990s, and Clayfield bought the Turrawan Private Hospital and converted it into a boarding facility. For other uses, see Library (disambiguation). ... Boarding House is a privately owned house,in which individuals or families on vaccation, holidays, deputition,transfered on temporary duties, on some particular training,short&mediun tenure visitors,working professionals & lodgers,rent one or more rooms sets for one or more nights,sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and... Assembly Hall can refer to multiple different arenas. ... A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ... Physical education (PE) is the interdisciplinary study of all area of science relating to the transmission of physical knowledge and skills to an individual or a group, the application of these skills, and their results. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ...

Curriculum

Year 8 students must study core subject: English, Mathematics, Science, Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE), German, Japanese, Visual Art, Music, Drama, Health and Physical Education (HPE), Information Technology (IT), Personal Development (PD) and Christian Education (CE). English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology... For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ... Physical education (PE) is the interdisciplinary study of all area of science relating to the transmission of physical knowledge and skills to an individual or a group, the application of these skills, and their results. ... Information and communication technology spending in 2005 Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ...

In Years 9 and 10, students choose two electives from language, arts and business courses as well as continuing to study most of these core subjects.

English and Mathematics are compulsory for all students in Years 11 and 12. In addition, students elect to study 4 subjects ranging from Arts (Drama, Music, Visual Art), Business (Accounting, Business Communication and Technologies, Legal Studies), Languages (Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean), Sciences ( Biology, Chemistry, Multistrand Science, Physics), Social Sciences (Ancient History, Economics, Geography, Modern History), Physical Education (Health, Physical Education) to Technology (Information Technology Systems). It has been suggested that Accounting scholarship be merged into this article or section. ... Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology (from Greek: βίος, bio, life; and λόγος, logos, knowledge), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the study of living organisms utilizing the scientific method. ... For other uses, see Chemistry (disambiguation). ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... “Ancient” redirects here. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... Modern history describes the history of the Modern Times, the era after the Middle Ages. ...

English as a Second Language (ESL) is offered throughout the Senior School to students from non-English speaking backgrounds.

Co-curriculum

Sport

Sports offered by Clayfield College include artistic gymnastics, athletics, badminton, cricket, cross country, hockey, netball, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, touch football, and volleyball. Artistic Gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which competitors perform short routines (ranging from approximately 30 to 90 seconds) on different apparatus, obviously less for vaulting (see lists below). ... A womens 400m hurdles race on a typical outdoor red rubber track. ... This article is about the sport. ... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ... The term cross-country, when used by itself, can refer to: Sports Cross-country running, a sport in which teams of runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain Cross-country skiing, a winter sport for skiing Fell running also known as hill running and mountain running... Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round disc called a puck, into the opponents net or goal, using a hockey stick. ... A Netball game in Australia Netball is a sport similar to and derived from basketball, and was originally known in its country of origin, the United States, as womens basketball. Invented by Clara Gregory Baer[1], a pioneer in womens sport, it is now the pre-eminent women... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Soft ball is also a sugar stage Softball is a team sport popular around the world but especially in the United States. ... Swimmer redirects here. ... For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... The name touch football may refer to several similar but unrelated games. ... For the ball used in this sport, see Volleyball (ball). ...

Notable alumni

• Elizabeth-Anne Stuart Abell OBE - Former Chief Nursing Officer of the Queensland Department of Health; Florence Nightingale Scholar 1960^[8]
• Lesley Ann Brydon (née Barker) - Executive Director of the Advertising Federation of Australia^[9]
• Marilyn Ann Darling (née Skinner) - Chair of the National Portrait Gallery; Member of the Old Parliament House Governing Council; Deputy Chair of the Gordon Darling Foundation; Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003^[10]
• Tania Major - Youngest person elected to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; 2007 Young Australian of the Year^[11]
• Sen. Jan Elizabeth McLucas - Federal Shadow Minister for Ageing, Disabilities and Carers; Senator (ALP) for Queensland^[12]
• Elizabeth Perkins OAM - One of the first women to reach the rank of Associate Professor at James Cook University; Member of the Literature Board of the Australian Council; Founding editor of "Literature in North Queensland"^[13]
• Hon. Justice Margaret Anne Wilson QC - Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland; Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003^[14]

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References

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See also

• List of schools in Queensland

According to the Education Queensland website, there are, or have been, at least 2185 registered schools in Queensland. ...

External links

• Clayfield College website