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.
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.
- AFL Footballers Jade Rawlings, Brady Rawlings and Matthew Richardson.
PE Department
The PE department includes several teachers: Mr A. Aherne, Mr S. Ryan, Ms R. Innis, Ms R. Sushames, R. Hubble (netballer extraordinare)and Ms J. Strawbridge, harold muchkin, harry hupid and the famiklle and legendary Matthew Ridgeway as our quarter back PE (Physical education) is a compulsery subject in years 7-10 and an optinal non Pre-Terchiary subject in years 11-12. Often one of the less stressful subject enjoyed by most students.
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 charites throughout the year by selling chocolates or merchandise. The school is most notably heavaly 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 there name on the athletics carnival plaque.