St Laurence's College

St Laurence's College (known colloquially as Lauries) is a private Catholic school for boys located in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was founded by the Christian Brothers in 1915.[1] The school currently has an enrolment of over 1900 students from Year 5 to Year 12. St Laurence's is a College in the Edmund Rice Tradition. St Laurence's is currently associated with the Associated Independent Colleges sporting association.

St Laurence's College
Address
82 Stephens Rd, South Brisbane

Brisbane
,
Queensland
,
4101

Australia
Coordinates27°29′09.93″S 153°01′30.58″E
Information
TypeIndependent, same-sex, day
MottoLatin: Facere et Docere
(to do and to teach)
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic
Established1915[1]
PrincipalChris Leadbetter[2]
Staff188 (teaching and support)
Years5–12
GenderBoys
Enrolment~1900 (2017)
CampusSouth Brisbane
Colour(s)Black and gold         
Websitewww.slc.qld.edu.au

Property
Gair Field, St Laurence's College, July 2010

The school's main campus is located in the inner-city Brisbane suburb of South Brisbane and houses a playing field, library, chapel, monastery, hall and six buildings with classrooms and support rooms. Three of the teaching buildings are largely subject specific as they house the visual and performing arts, manual arts and science and computing specific classrooms and laboratories.

As part of an agreement with the adjacent Mater hospital, the school's land was leased for 25 years to build a six-story car park, which now houses the college's synthetic oval on top along with a new 1500 seat auditorium.

In 2016, construction finished on a new $3 million chapel adjacent to the old monastery.

In 2017, construction finished on a $14 million sporting and science centre, which houses a gym, 2 basketball courts (or 4 volleyball courts), a 250-seat viewing area, along with 12 science and engineering laboratories and staff rooms. Which is named after the previous principal Ian MacDonald who approved the construction of the building. This building is called the STEM building located behind the Monastery.

Since 1961, the school has also operated sporting fields in the southern Brisbane suburb of Runcorn, which contains 8 playing fields and a function centre.

The school also maintains an outdoor educational facility, Camp Laurence, at Lake Moogerah, to the west of Brisbane.

Sports

The college is a founding member of the AIC sporting association along with Marist College Ashgrove, St Edmunds College, Ipswich, St Patrick's College, Iona College, Padua College, St. Peters Lutheran College and Villanova College. The sports played in the AIC include rugby union, soccer, cricket, basketball, Australian Rules Football, volleyball, tennis, swimming, chess, Water Polo, athletics and cross country.

Notable alumni

Alumni of St Laurence's College are known as "Old Boys" and may elect to join the school's alumni association, the St Laurence's College Old Boys Association. Notable alumni include:

Rhodes Scholars
  • Peter Hempenstall, 1970
  • James Maloney, 1929
Business
Entertainment, arts and the media
Politics, law and public service
Science and medicine
  • Joseph King OBE, sugar technologist and administrator[3]
  • Robert John Walsh OBE, founder of the NSW Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service and former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales[4]
Sports

See also

References
  1. "History". St Laurence's College.
  2. "Principal's Welcome". St Laurence's College.
  3. Kerr, John D. King, Norman Joseph (1905–1981). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  4. Crane, Helen Bashir. Walsh, Robert John (1917–1983). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
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