CHADS LIFE

The Primary School I attended was Attadale Primary School which I attended for the maximum seven years.
I am currently Attending Aquinas College where I am studying Economics, Intro Calc, Geom and Trigonom, Chemistry, Physics, English and RE. Some of the outside school hour programs ran by the college include The Solar Car Team. I am in the A's Hockey Team in winter and I dont play a sport in summer.

Heres some histery about the college:
In 1893 when Bishop Matthew Gibney, the Bishop of Perth, invited the Christian Brothers to Perth, the city and state were just emerging from colonial status. The Bishop realised that a Catholic college was necessary to provide educational leadership for his Catholic community. Academically, Aquinas set high standards from the very beginning. In 1903, Alex Juett became the first Aquinian to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. Since then, six students of the College have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships - a remarkable achievement of which Aquinas is justifiably proud. The successes of those early students can still be seen, recorded on the Honour Boards in the College Dining Room.

During the Great War, Aquinas, like all Western Australia, suffered terrible losses - 62 of its past students laid down their lives. The name of one of them - Alaric Pinder Boor, Rhodes Scholar of 1912, is remembered in Pinder Boor House on the Mount Henry peninsula.

In 1938 the College was renamed Aquinas College and opened its doors to the first students at Mount Henry, its current site.

The years after the Second World War were hard for the College. Expanding needs had to be accommodated in the famous 'green sheds' known to a generation of Old Aquinians of those times. The new classrooms - in the Murphy Wing - were erected although the green sheds remained for some years. Headmasters came and went, but three Brothers in particular, Br Michael Francis Redmond, Br Boyd Egan and Br Basil Keogh came to represent much of what Aquinas was in those years.

Academically, the College continued to flourish, s the lists of names in the Honour Boards clearly show. During the following years he College expanded to include a Science Wing and Junior School. In 1965-68 the then Headmaster, Br JC Woodruff, completed the main building ad built the beautiful Chapel of St Thomas Aquinas.

In 1980-83, Br Redmond's memory was commemorated through the capital fund-raising appeal, named in his honour. Once again, the College community rallied around and raised a much needed $1,000,000. During the early 1980s, this money was utilised in the construction of the College day-school campus, the hall gymnasium, Senior School wing, computing centre, art rooms and manual arts centre. In the late 1980s the College built three modern boarding houses. The College's commitment to developing these new boarding houses acknowledged the support it had always received from country families - support which was demonstrated as early as the first fund-raising drive in the 1890s. Today educators from all over Australia regularly visit these facilities.

In 1987, the Christian Brothers set up the Aquinas Board of Management, responsible to the Provincial of the Order for policy, planning and financial management of Aquinas.

No other school in Western Australia can boast the magnificent facilities, sporting achievements and academic results that Aquinas has produced. Past parents, pupils, Brothers and staff have all made tremendous contributions to the development of the College.

Aquinas College has a history of which it can be proud, a history that provides a solid foundation for what will undoubtedly be an outstanding future.

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