Posted on 15 March 2019
The National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (NDA) is an opportunity for the whole school community to 'take a stand together' against bullying.
Posted on 12 March 2019
Early on Sunday morning we farewelled twenty students and two teachers from our sister school in Japan, Kanagawa Gakuen. Although many tears were shed as the visitors boarded the bus, everyone has many happy memories of the visit.
Posted on 05 March 2019
Students from all over the campus came together this morning to enjoy a free pancake outside the Chapel to celebrate Shrove Tuesday and Chaplaincy at OC.
Posted on 01 March 2019
Our new Centre for Learning and Innovation opened to the school community at the beginning of the year. It has been wonderful seeing our students, parents and staff begin to embrace the facility for learning activities, events and social gatherings. It has certainly become the hub of the school community!
With so much happening, we will be providing regular updates to showcase the spaces, learning activities and the numerous events occurring in the building.
In each update we will include a spotlight learning area to highlight how this space supports teaching and learning in the 21st Century.
Posted on 28 February 2019
We recently held the Creating a Culture of Reading Volunteer Workshop in the CLI and are happy to welcome a number of new parents to the volunteer program this year. This event always reminds me of the importance of involving our parents in their children’s learning and especially, in ways that they can encourage a love of reading at home.
Posted on 25 February 2019
This year the Social Justice Committee are focusing support for the Redlands Community Centre program ‘Homeless United’. The support gained from Ormiston College will go towards making a positive difference to the homeless youth in Redlands.
Posted on 08 February 2019
On Friday 8 February, staff and all students from Year 1 to Year 12 made their way across campus to gather in the Somerset Sports Centre for the very first whole school assembly for 2019, celebrating the Prefects’ Investiture and Presentation of the Year 6 Student Leaders.
Posted on 07 February 2019
Every two years a burgeoning wave of excitement starts to flow around campus. When that happens, you know that it is a College Musical year!
Posted on 17 December 2018
Ormiston College is delighted to share the academic results of the 2018 Year 12 Graduates, who will now progress to tertiary education on an exciting journey towards their future careers.
Posted on 16 November 2018
Excitement was in the air in the Somerset Sports Centre today as students from Prep to Year 12, plus teaching staff and the parents and families of our Year 12 cohort, gathered to farewell the Seniors of 2018.
Posted on 02 November 2018
The traditional Year 12 Tree Planting Ceremony, this week, once again marked the beginning of a number of special occasions which celebrate and recognise the contributions of the Seniors during their time at the College.
Posted on 22 October 2018
In the September school holidays, 17 Japanese students from Year 10 and Year 11 travelled to Japan as part of the biannual Japan Tour.
Posted on 11 October 2018
Year 10 Visual Art students enjoyed seeing the ‘Redland Art Awards’ at the Redland Art Gallery recently.
Posted on 26 September 2018
In the last week of term, Senior Secondary Drama students across Years 10, 11 and 12 impressed their audience of family and friends when they presented their assessment-based work.
Posted on 19 September 2018
On Tuesday 18 September,128 students from 14 different schools competed in three hours of fast, furious and fantastic chess at Ormiston College’s biennial chess competition.
Posted on 04 September 2018
At OC Night of The Proms, the Headmaster revealed that Ormiston College will present MARY POPPINS: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL in 2019.
Posted on 01 August 2018
Lunch times last week at Ormiston College saw our Senior College students make the most of popular visiting universities.
Posted on 30 July 2018
Posted on 25 June 2018
On Thursday 14th June, Year 10 Japanese students embarked on a fun-filled adventure to the Gold Coast.
Posted on 22 June 2018
The Ormiston College OCTAVE ensemble has made it to the Ensemble Championships Final (school division) of the AUSACA 2018 Australian A Cappella Awards.
Posted on 20 June 2018
The culminating Year 10 Visual Art student experience was held on Monday night at the Shared Space Gallery. Students exhibited their work from across Semester One.
Posted on 19 June 2018
This week, a group of passionate Drama performers across Years 7 to 12 put on an exceptional show when they presented "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Lingo Lin Theatre.
Posted on 13 June 2018
After a couple of years absence from the German Film Festival and the cancellation of the event last year, 2018 brought a renewed opportunity for high school students to experience German language and culture on the big screen.
Posted on 28 May 2018
It was wonderful to so see so many of our Secondary School students interacting and enjoying the arts during International Arts Week.
Posted on 18 May 2018
Year 10, 11 and 12 Visual Art students enjoyed a day at Brisbane galleries on Thursday, May 17.
Posted on 04 May 2018
Year 10 students participated in the Career Industry Professional Talks which were held on Thursday 26 April in the Somerset Sports Centre’s Hall of Fame.
Posted on 04 May 2018
In our first year of involvement in the University of Queensland Science Ambassador program, a record twelve students were accepted from Ormiston College. These students were awarded with their badges on assembly on Friday 4 May.
Posted on 20 April 2018
Former Ormiston College Prefect, Niamh Conway, returned to our college last week to address Year 10 Business Management students.
Posted on 16 April 2018
Prefect, Oliver Breadmore, has demonstrated what it means to be a leader not only in our community but much further afield.
Posted on 13 April 2018
Dried up dams and dusty, parched fields were the introduction to the sheep and cattle country of northern New South Wales for eleven of our Secondary School students and two teachers who took part in the Duke of Edinburgh Jackaroo and Jillaroo experience.
Posted on 19 March 2018
The Year 11 mentors guide, support and advise the Year 7 cohort as they begin their secondary journey.
Posted on 13 March 2018
Ormiston College continues to lead the way through its continual introduction of innovative pedagogy.
Posted on 13 March 2018
The TAS Swimming Team were treated to the annual Headmaster’s Breakfast last week.
Posted on 13 March 2018
On Saturday 3 March, Ormiston College welcomed twenty Japanese students and two teachers from our Sister City School, Kanagawa Gakuen in Yokohama, Japan.
Posted on 06 February 2018
An outstanding 34% of graduates achieved an OP of five or better; 72% achieved an OP of 10 or better and 95% of the 123 graduates achieved an OP score of 15 or better. A remarkable and well-earned result for the Class of 2017.
Posted on 16 November 2017
This year's Speech Night was another wonderful celebration for the students of Ormiston College.
Posted on 02 November 2017
The Sports Awards Evening was held on Wednesday 1 November. The exciting evening ran very smoothly, providing everyone involved with lots of fun and entertainment.
Posted on 01 November 2017
The Year 11 Mentors of the 2017 did a wonderful job. They continually guided and supported the Year 7 group as they made their transition into secondary school.
Posted on 12 October 2017
Ormiston College takes innovation to a whole new level.
Posted on 11 October 2017
Drama challenges students to role-play and learn practically through the senses. Drama is also a subject that supports holistic development. Drama provides real-world learning experiences that strive to prepare students for the twenty first century.
Posted on 09 October 2017
On June 19 this year, a lucky group of eighteen students and three teachers journeyed to Hervey Bay airport, where they boarded two small planes for the flight to the tiny coral cay called Lady Elliot Island at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.
Posted on 05 October 2017
Commencing in Week 2, the Social Justice Committee will begin project 'Give it up for BABI' to help support and fundraise for a BABI Youth Centre to be refurbished.
Posted on 03 October 2017
Throughout last term, regular checks were being made on the snowfalls at Perisher, so the perfect skiing season came as no surprise to 49 of our Year 12 students and
accompanying staff.
Posted on 13 September 2017
On 8 September the Ormiston College OCATVE ensemble consisting of Alena Olds, Chiara Gay, Emily Pearson, Molly Snaylam, Kyle Bryant, Matthew Garnett, Thomas Whyte and Fraser Todd, made their way down to Melbourne in order to compete in the AUSACA 2017 Australian A Cappella Awards. This festival saw the best school a cappella groups from around the country battle it out to be crowned the AUSACA Australian A Cappella Champions.
Posted on 13 September 2017
Both staff and students were fortunate to have Dr Gary Stager, one of the world’s leading experts and advocates for computer programming, robotics and learning-by-doing in classrooms, visit our College recently.
Posted on 05 September 2017
Our Debating teams did us proud this season.
Posted on 16 August 2017
Four Ormiston College teams entered this year’s RoboCup Junior Queensland Championships held on 12 and 13 August at the University of Queensland. In this exciting and challenging competition students brought home two trophies.
Posted on 11 August 2017
Ormiston College was pleased to be informed recently that George Storey (Year 12) has been awarded an Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) Education Award.
Posted on 09 August 2017
Wow! What a wonderful selection of music activities and achievements!
Posted on 21 July 2017
Wednesday 12 July our Year 11 and Year 12 girls participated in a ‘Girl Essentials’ workshop presented by Enlighten Education.
Posted on 19 July 2017
The Coolum hills were filled with the sound of music from Friday 14 July to Sunday 16 July as students from the Ormiston College Chorale went to choral camp.
Posted on 19 July 2017
Year 10 Art students recently held an art exhibition showcasing their Semester 1 work.
Posted on 19 June 2017
International Arts week was recently celebrated by staff and students with the focus for the week on ‘Sustainable Living’.
Posted on 26 May 2017
The Computational and Algorithmic Thinking Competition is run by the Australian Mathematics Trust to promote logical and algorithmic thinking. This competition is a one-hour problem-solving competition which seeks to identify computer programming potential, although no prior programming experience is necessary.
Posted on 08 May 2017
This term, Year 12 students are studying texts such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, J.R.R Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring and Ian Fleming's Casino Royale with a view to why and how texts are adapted to film. The purpose of this unit is for students to consider how literary texts written in the past can connect with people who live in contemporary times. Currently students are working on their character monologue oral task. Within this context, we were very happy to host a performance of The Australian Playhouse's The Great Gatsby.
Posted on 31 March 2017
As part of the Semester theme ‘Studies of Hope’, students are conducting an investigation into an aspect of the Apartheid era in South Africa.
Posted on 30 March 2017
The Lecture Theatre was filled with a very enthusiastic audience who were thoroughly entertained by the high quality and very funny speakers.
Posted on 24 February 2017
As the mercury continued to climb earlier this week one would reasonably think that activity would be kept to a minimum, simply for self-preservation. Ormiston Humanitarians are made of much sterner stuff than that!
Posted on 13 February 2017
During the first few weeks of the school year, all students from Year 7 through to Year 12 attended, an Elevate Education study skills seminar.
Posted on 09 February 2017
You may be of an age to remember when disco was king and a Saturday Night Roller Disco was the highlight of the week. Our Year 11 Geographers had the chance to revive the glory days of skating last week in an engaging study of urban development and business planning.
Posted on 06 February 2017
On Monday 13 February, the English Department will be hosting a new event, Shakespeare on the Green. Production Company Shake and Stir will perform ‘Great Shakes’ which recontextualises Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet.
Posted on 23 January 2017
100% Success for Ormiston College Class of 2016!
Posted on 18 November 2016
Today the Seniors of 2016 were fondly farewelled on their final day of their schooling journey with two special ceremonies.
Posted on 07 November 2016
The Australian Mathematics Trust 2016 Awards Presentation has held on the evening of Friday 4 November at King's Christian College on the Gold Coast.
Posted on 07 November 2016
Last week the Seniors of 2016 participated in the traditional Tree Planting Ceremony outside the Junior Arts Centre and Year 6 classrooms. This ceremony marked the beginning of a number of special events which celebrate and recognise the contributions of the Seniors during their time at the College.
Posted on 04 November 2016
At 6.30am on Wednesday 26 October, four teachers and 71 Year 11 Biology students departed on an exciting two-day field investigation to Hasting’s Point, New South Wales, where a number of different Ecosystems exist.
Posted on 20 October 2016
Year 10 students who have been studying Shakespeare this term were entertained by the Shake & Stir Theatre Co.
Posted on 12 October 2016
Year 10 and 12 Visual Art students enjoyed a recent excursion to the Redland Art Gallery in Cleveland.
Posted on 15 September 2016
Two Ormiston College Year 12 Visual Art students had the pleasure of displaying their work in the Creative Generations Exhibition, showcased at the Redland Art Gallery recently.
Posted on 14 September 2016
Lan Fang was presented with an Award of Excellence
Posted on 14 September 2016
Posted on 01 September 2016
An anticipated event, held annually at Ormiston College, is the Moot Court. An activity designed to provide simulated court proceedings that are close to real-life situations, for Year 11 students who are undertaking Legal Studies.
Posted on 15 August 2016
Year 10 and 11 Visual Art students enjoy excursion to GOMA
Posted on 20 July 2016
The expertise and equipment of local studio photographer, Jason Buck, were shared at an intensive workshop for Year 11 Visual Art students.
Posted on 23 May 2016
Year 12 Form Classes visit the Prep to Year 3 Junior School classes at lunch time in an activity they call Backyard Bonanza.
Posted on 27 April 2016
Students studying Geography in Year 11, undergo an investigation into the crime profiles of Brisbane and its surrounds. On 27 April, we welcomed Crime Stoppers representative Paul Fitzpatrick to the College.
Posted on 15 April 2016
In February, Year 9 and Year 11 STEM students attended two workshops at QUT. The workshops were tailored to enhance and support the national curriculum’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning areas through practical application.
Posted on 04 March 2016
At the end of 2015, current Year 12 student David Winten travelled to Washington DC in the United States for an exclusive and private tour of the Pentagon.
Posted on 26 February 2016
Year 11 and 12 Art students participated with creativity in action during their recent visit to the Asia Pacific Triennial 8 at QAG/GOMA.
Posted on 26 February 2016
Year 10 art students enjoy a vist to the Redlands Art gallery
Posted on 19 February 2016
College Captains Tess Photinos and Ryan Watson attend Dinner held at QUT for Student Leaders from Independent Schools across Brisbane.
Posted on 19 February 2016
On Friday 12 February, the Year 11 Art students were visited by Bianca Mavrick, Contemporary Jeweller and Designer.
Posted on 12 February 2016
Teachers from the Mathematics, Science and Technology Departments were learning how to Code using MATLAB. In the digital world of the future, it will be advantageous for students not only to be familiar with how to use computers, applications and programs, but also how to instruct computers to function in a particular way through coding.
Posted on 12 February 2016
Posted on 05 February 2016
The entire College assembled in the Stadium of the Somerset Sports Centre to share in the annual ceremony that recognises the investiture of our College Captains and Prefects and our Year 6, Junior School Leaders.
Posted on 03 December 2015
Over recent weeks the newly elected 2016 Ormiston College Leaders have started their planning for the new year.
Posted on 20 November 2015
Only on very special occasions does the entire student body come together: Friday 20 November was one such occasion. The Sports Stadium in the Somerset Sports Centre was full to capacity with students from Prep to Year 12, plus teaching staff and the parents and families of our graduating Year 12 cohort. All gathered to share the celebration of Final Assembly with our departing Year 12 students.
Posted on 20 November 2015
As is tradition for Year 12 German students, they finished their final German lesson by decorating Gingerbread houses. The artistic flair, or meticulous planning, is part of the joy of making these little houses covered with lollies.
Posted on 19 November 2015
On Thursday 19 November, the Year 12 cohort headed back to where their schooling began, spending time with the Junior School students and pausing to reflect on their own years at primary school.
Posted on 17 November 2015
On Friday 13 November, the Year 12 students worked collaboratively to install their work from throughout the year at the annual Year 12 Graduate Art Exhibition.
Posted on 09 November 2015
The Year 11 Mentors of 2015 have played a significant role in guiding the Years 7 and 8 students through their journey into Secondary School.
Posted on 06 November 2015
On Wednesday 4 November the Year 12 cohort gathered for the annual Tree Planting Ceremony.
Posted on 23 October 2015
Year 11 Camp could be described as a week-long adventure where things change. No longer just ‘the Year 11 cohort’ on camp we were a connected community made up of friends.
Posted on 09 October 2015
The Southern Courtyard came back to life at the start of this week as the Year 12s resumed their usual lunch time positions.
Posted on 09 October 2015
An exciting new opportunity to represent Ormiston College arose for Georgia Carrigan (Year 11), to attend the Chrysalis International Leadership Youth Conference held at Emmanuel College, University of Queensland during the July holidays.
Posted on 09 October 2015
The Ormiston College Business Department offers its Legal Studies students the opportunity to commence their tertiary studies early through participating in the STARTQUT program.
Posted on 09 October 2015
Alexander Muirhead (Year 12) was one of only 20 school students throughout Queensland to receive the Peter Doherty Award for outstanding senior mathematics and technology.
Posted on 09 October 2015
