Padua College, Brisbane - Co-curricular Activities

Co-curricular Activities

All boys attending the College are required to represent Padua in co-curricular activities. The College offers students the opportunity to participate in debating and public speaking events, chess competitions and music and drama programs. In addition, the College also enters teams into the Associated Independent Colleges competition for the following sports: Swimming, Water Polo, Cricket, Volleyball, Rugby, AFL, Football (soccer), Tennis, Basketball, Golf, Athletics. Chess and Cross Country.

Padua College (5-12 boys school) Mt Alvernia (8-12 girs school) and st anthonys(prep-4 for the boys and prep- 7 for girls the parish school), these 3 schools come to gether to create the FCIP, Franciscan Colleges Instrumental Program which is the major musical groups on the hill with many instrument to play and learn and there are many orchestra to play in. These 3 schools are well known as the FOTH, franciscans on the hill.

All boys are encouraged to compete in the College's annual Inter-House Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics Carnivals. Padua College has its playing fields on a 73,000m2 site at Elliot Road Banyo for cricket, rugby and soccer. Padua has an ongoing rivalry with their northside counterparts in the AIC St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe (SPC) due to both being of almost equal sporting talent and of their close vicinity to each other. The Northside Challenge is a sporting challenge between the two schools for Rugby and Soccer. In the First XV rugby Padua are the current holders after defeating SPC in round 6 of the AIC competition, and in process become AIC First XV premiers. In Soccer SPC are the holders after defeating the Padua First XI convincingly in the same round.

Padua has a well-equipped Music Department which includes a recording studio and sound-proof drum room. Tuition is available in all orchestral instruments. The orchestras at the college are generally of a high quality and a wide variety of instruments are available for student hire. Students are frequently encouraged to take up viola as the high prevalence of students who quit provides a large amount of instruments for hire. Students are encouraged to become members of the Concert Bands, Big Band, String Orchestras and Symphony Orchestra. All Year 8 students study piano and guitar as part of the ordinary school curriculum. Music is taught as a Board Subject in Years 9 through to 12. Every alternate year the boys and girls from Mt Alvernia and Padua College produce a stage musical. Recent productions have included Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Les Misérables, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Oliver!. The latest collaborative production between the two schools is High School Musical: The Musical!, released in May 2010.