St Brendan-Shaw College

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St Brendan-Shaw College is a co-educational Catholic college for students in grades 7–12. It is located in Devonport on the North-West Coast of Tasmania in Australia. The college has around about 600 students.

History

in 1960, the Christian Brothers established St Brendan's College for boys in James Street, Devonport. It was a college for boys up to Year 10. By agreement with Shaw College a certain degree of co-instruction was arranged at Years 9 and 10.

In 1969 Shaw College, for girls, was established adjacent to St Brendan's College in Devonport. Shaw was a Catholic Girls School established by the Sisters of St Joseph. The College was named after Fr Shaw who was the first Parish Priest of Devonport. By agreement with St Brendan’s College a certain degree of co-instruction was arranged at Years 9 and 10. Amalgamated with St Brendan’s College to form St Brendan-Shaw College in 1981.

In 1981 the two Colleges were merged to form St Brendan-Shaw College, a co-educational College. The College Logo combines the Logos of St. Brendan’s and Shaw Colleges, or at least elements from each. The barque of St. Brendan symbolises missionary endeavour, while the 12 pointed star on the sail is taken from the Shaw badge where it represented “Light from Knowledge". Senior secondary (Year 11 and 12) classes were introduced in 1990 and the school became the regional Catholic secondary co-educational college. Today it is a Co-educational College for years 7-12.

College Houses

The College has four Houses:

Dillon (Green)

Head of House- Rosalie McDonald

Dillon is named after Brother Dillon, the first Principal of St. Brendan-Shaw College

Griffin (Blue)

Head of House- Anton Bezemer

The Griffin block is situated at the far eastern end of the school. It is also the most southern building in the school. All the year 7 classrooms are situated in the Griffin building. It also houses the science labs.

Lyons (Red)

Head of House- Peter Stubbs

Lyons is named after former Premier of Tasmania and Prime Minister of Australia, Joseph Lyons.

MacKillop (Gold)

Head of House- Gavin Hicks

Named after Mary Mackillop of the sisters of St Joseph .

Notable alumni

Hawthorn AFL footballer Grant Birchall.
Owner of the internet Alex Pava.
AFL Footballers Jade Rawlings, Brady Rawlings and Matthew Richardson.
Cyclist Luke Ockerby

Charitable involvements

The school is active in several charitable organizations such as: St. Vincent De Paul, Project compassion, each of the houses raise money for different charities throughout the year by selling chocolates or merchandise. The school is most notably heavily involved in funding for private school in Tanzania

Athletics carnivals

Every year generally in first term the school holds an athletics carnival that last for the course of two days. There are many track and field events that always get high participation. For those are not very athletically minded there are novelty events such as cheerleding (always entertaining) and the world famous tug-of-war the points scores are generally in the thousands with the winning team receiving their name on the athletics carnival plaque.

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