St Augustine's College (New South Wales) - Co-curricular

Co-curricular

Two extracurricular activities are required of students at the College every year. The most popular choice among current students is to take part in two sports (usually one sport in Summer and one in Winter). Music, art, design, drama, chess and debating as well as Tae Kwon Do, ceramics and public speaking are also popular student choices.

The Red Land Society named from Australia's "red centre", and uniquely Australian and Indigenous in its focus, the "Red Land" society was another early co-curricular organisation at St. Augustine's. This was a student group founded and run from the 1970s by friar Rod Cameron OSA during his long teaching tenure at St. Augustine's College, Brookvale (1964–84). Rod Cameron had long established extensive personal relationships with Indigenous Elders throughout Australia. The Red Land group specifically fostered a sense of connection and understanding with Indigenous Australians. It did this through poetry, drama, music, performance, meetings, seminars, regular Aboriginal elder guest speakers such as Mum (Shirl) Smith, as well as travel into indigenous communities and Dreaming sites through Australia.