The Gap State High School

The Gap State High School
"Ours The Future"
Location
The Gap, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Information
Type	State Secondary High School
Established	July 1959
Principal	Russell Pollock
Enrolment	1025
Campus	Suburban
Colour(s)	Green, Grey and White
Website	www.thegapshs.eq.edu.au

The Gap State High School is located in the suburb of The Gap in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, with a student population, in 2008, of 980. The Gap State High School is an Education Queensland Secondary High School.

The school has an excellent academic, sporting, cultural, citizenship and leadership record. The school's slogan (not motto) is "Educating the whole person in a supportive, local community".

History of school

Since Opening in July 1959, the school has been prominent in academic achievement, both on a national level and state level.

The school has also been prominent in sports, in competition and co-operation with other Queensland State High Schools, and has contributed much to and gained much from the local community.

The State High School recently celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Campus

The Gap State High School's Leadership Training Centre is unique in Australia. The facility opened in August 2002 and features 22 adventure courses including indoor rock climbing and bouldering walls used to develop leadership and communication skills as part of The Gap Outdoor Adventure and Leadership Studies (GOALS) program, which is compulsory for all students. The Leadership Training Centre is open to other schools and the community, and has been used by professional athletes and by the Australian Army for cadet training. The original teachers working at the centre were trained by a past student of the Gap State High School.

The performing arts centre has an auditorium that can house up to 150 students at any one time.

Sporting facilities include one turf cricket pitch, one concrete cricket pitch, two full size soccer fields, four basketball courts, a hall for volleyball, and four tennis courts.

School facts

• The School motto is "Ours The Future" which translates to "Creating Futures" or "Forging Future Leaders" referring to the Leadership, Outdoor and Personal Development Programme.
• The School uniform and School colours are Green, White and Grey.
• The Leadership Training Centre (LTC) incorporates instruction in the activity of rock-climbing into the GOALS programme, which is for students in years 8-11.
• The School Assembly Hall, the J A Robertson Hall, is named after the Principal from 1968 to 1982.
• The School offers Chinese as a Language other than English in years 8-12, year 8 being the mandatory year: in years 9-12 a second language is optional.
• The School has a purpose built Leadership Training Centre (LTC), the only one in Queensland.
• The Gap are defending District Swimming champions after winning back-to-back-to-back titles in 2007-2008-2009.

Principals

1. Mr. Petty (1959–1963)
2. Tom Brady (1964–1967)
3. Jack Robertson (1968–1982)
4. S. Rasmussen (1983–1988)
5. Bob Guthrie (1989–1999)
6. Regan Neumann (2000 - 2006 first semester)
7. Russell Pollock (2006 second semester - present)

Former students

Politics

• Arch Bevis

Science

• Gary Foley

Arts

• Edward Guglielmino
• Andrew Stockdale

References

• Learning the ropes at school, Westside News (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), 12 June 2002, pg. 7.
• The Gap State High Celebrates 40 years of memories, 2000

External links

• The Gap State High School - official website
• Webpage for the Class of 2001