The Southport School
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The Southport School is an independent
, Anglican
, day
and boarding school
for boys, located in Southport
, a suburb on the Gold Coast
of Queensland
, Australia
.
Established in 1901 by The Right Reverend Horace Henry Dixon, TSS is the oldest Anglican boys' boarding school
in Queensland and the only all boys boarding school on the Gold Coast. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1305 students from Reception to Year 12, including 276 boarders from Years 5 to 12.
The school is affiliated with the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia
(JSHAA), Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ), and has been a member of the Great Public Schools' Association Inc (GPS) since 1920.
. The Senior School is divided vertically into the twelve Houses: eight day boy Houses and four Boarding Houses. Whilst the Preparatory school is divided into four houses.
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in Chattanooga
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, United States of America
.
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
, Anglican
Anglican Church of Australia
The Anglican Church of Australia is a member church of the Anglican Communion. It was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania...
, day
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
and boarding school
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
for boys, located in Southport
Southport, Queensland
-Sport:The Southport Sharks Australian rules football club has a presence in the area, including a club and function centre.-Transport:The Broadwaterway is a foreshoreway that encourages pedestrians and cyclists to travel along the Broadwater foreshores of Southport.A ferry terminal is planned for...
, a suburb on the Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
of Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Established in 1901 by The Right Reverend Horace Henry Dixon, TSS is the oldest Anglican boys' boarding school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
in Queensland and the only all boys boarding school on the Gold Coast. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1305 students from Reception to Year 12, including 276 boarders from Years 5 to 12.
The school is affiliated with the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia
Junior School Heads Association of Australia
The Independent Primary School Heads of Australia formerly Junior School Heads Association of Australia , is an incorporated body representing the heads of independent primary schools in Australia....
(JSHAA), Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ), and has been a member of the Great Public Schools' Association Inc (GPS) since 1920.
History
The Southport School was established in 1901 by The Rt Revd Horace Dixon. The first boarding houses (Delpratt, McKinley and Thorold) were established 1909.Headmasters
| Period | Details |
|---|---|
| 1901 – 1929 | Rt. Rev. Horace Henry Dixon OBE |
| 1930 – 1935 | |
| 1936 – 1940 | Rev. Verney Lovett Johnstone |
| 1941 – 1950 | John Norman Radcliffe |
| 1950 – 1971 | Cecil Garton Pearce, OBE |
| 1972 – 1987 | John Henry Day, AM |
| 1988 – 2003 | Bruce Alexander Cook, OAM |
| 2004 – present | Greg Wain |
House system
As with most Australian schools, The Southport School utilises a house systemHouse system
The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in the Commonwealth. Historically, it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school...
. The Senior School is divided vertically into the twelve Houses: eight day boy Houses and four Boarding Houses. Whilst the Preparatory school is divided into four houses.
Notable alumni and members of the School community
The Old Southportonians Association (OSA) is the alumni organisation for Old Boys of the school. The OSA celebrated its 100 years as a recognised body in 2007.Arts, Media and Sciences
- James BlundellJames Blundell (singer)-Music:He won a Golden Guitar Award for best new talent of 1987.Blundell's eponymous first album, in 1989, followed up by "Hand It Down", which was released in the United States in 1990 following its success in Australia. Successive albums were This Road and Touch of Water. This Road included the...
- Singer - Ashley Bradnam - radio announcer for Nova 106.9Nova 106.9Nova 106.9 is a commercial radio station operating in Brisbane, Australia, owned by the DMG Radio Network. DMG Radio purchased the Brisbane FM licence for $80 million in April 2004 to complete their national network of Nova stations...
and actor - Luke Bradnam - radio announcer for 102.9 Hot TomatoHot TomatoHot Tomato is a radio station in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.The current breakfast line-up consists of Paul Holmes ex Sydney and Melbourne radio legend, teamed with Sean Flanagan, comedic writer for TV and radio. Nova 106.9 announcer Emily-Jade O'Keefe was among the founding breakfast crew...
- Sidney CottonSidney CottonFrederick Sidney Cotton OBE was an Australian inventor, photographer and aviation and photography pioneer, responsible for developing and promoting an early colour film process, and largely responsible for the development of photographic reconnaissance before and during the Second World War...
- Inventor of the 'Sidcot' flight suit - Perry Cross - motivational speakerMotivational speakerA motivational speaker or inspirational speaker is a speaker who makes speeches intended to motivate or inspire an audience. In a business context, they are employed to communicate company strategy with clarity and help employees to see the future in a positive light and inspire workers to pull...
- Ben DarkBen DarkBen Dark is an Australian television presenter.From an early age, Ben had an affinity with the bush. Born on a dam bank on 14 January 1972, he spent the first 11 years of his life on his parents' property in Stanthorpe, south-east Queensland. In 1984 Ben was sent to all boys Anglican boarding...
- television presenter, GetawayGetawayGetaway is Australia's longest-running and most popular holiday and travel television programme. Debuting on 14 May 1992, it is currently broadcast on the Nine Network and TLC...
, Nine NetworkNine NetworkThe Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia... - Sir Lorimer DodsLorimer DodsSir Lorimer Fenton Dods LVO was a pioneer of specialised health care for children who founded, with assistance from Dr John Fulton, the Children's Medical Research Foundation...
- Founder of the Children's Medical Research InstituteChildren's Medical Research InstituteThe Children's Medical Research Institute is an Australian based independent scientific research organisation created in the 1950s by Paediatricians Sir Lorimer Dods and Dr. John Fulton to "perform scientific research with a commitment to better treat, and where possible, prevent childhood... - Stewart MorrisStewart MorrisStewart Morris, OBE, was a British sailor, born in Bromley, Kent. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and won a gold medal in the Swallow class with David Bond....
- Singer member of the Ten Tenors - Nick Smart - sports journalist for The Gold Coast BulletinThe Gold Coast BulletinThe Gold Coast Bulletin is a daily newspaper serving Australia's Gold Coast region.It is published as The Gold Coast Bulletin on weekdays and the Weekend Bulletin at weekends....
- Jim Wilson - television presenter for Seven NetworkSeven NetworkThe Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
- Rod YoungRod YoungRod Young is the presenter of the Brisbane bulletin of Seven News with Kay McGrath.Before moving to the Seven Network, Rod was the face of news in Brisbane on the ABC where he began working in the late 1970s. Rod has had a distinguished career after starting in radio at station 2GO at Gosford on...
- news anchor for Seven NetworkSeven NetworkThe Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
Education
- Ian LambertIan LambertDr Ian Peter Morrison Lambert is the Australian-born Principal of The Scots College, a Sydney GPS School, and an educational author and editor.-Early life:...
- Principal The Scots CollegeThe Scots CollegeFor other schools with a similar name see Scots College.The Scots College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Bellevue Hill, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
, SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
Business and Politics
- Rob BorbidgeRob BorbidgeRobert Edward Borbidge AO , Australian politician, was the 35th Premier of Queensland, and leader of the Queensland branch of the National Party...
- Premier of QueenslandPremiers of QueenslandBefore the 1890s, there was no developed party system in Queensland. Political affiliation labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. Before the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, political parties were more akin to parliamentary factions, and were fluid, informal and... - John Moore - former Federal LiberalLiberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
Defence MinisterMinister for Defence (Australia)The Minister for Defence of Australia administers his portfolio through the Australian Defence Organisation, which comprises the Department of Defence and the Australian Defence Force. Stephen Smith is the current Minister.-Ministers for Defence:... - Bill O'CheeBill O'CheeWilliam George "Bill" O'Chee is an Australian politician. He was a National Party member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 1999, representing the state of Queensland.-Biography:...
- Queensland Senator - Matthew Perrin - former Managing Director of BillabongBillabong (clothing)Billabong International is a clothing company traded on the Australian Securities Exchange since 11 August 2000. Billabong was founded in 1973 by Gordon and Rena Merchant....
- Tom RayTom RayThomas Archer Ray was an American animator.-Career:Ray was born in Williams, Arizona. He began work at Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1937. Over the first two decades of his career, he was a junior animator who received no screen credit until Destination Earth in 1956. In 1958, he became a master...
- property developer - Glenister Sheil, Queensland Senator
Military
- Major General Robert Harold NimmoRobert Harold NimmoLieutenant General Robert Harold Nimmo CBE was an Australian soldier who served in both World War I and World War II and eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant General....
- Head of UN Military Observer Group in Pakistan & India (1952-1966) - General Sir Arthur MacDonaldArthur MacDonaldGeneral Sir Arthur Leslie MacDonald KBE, CB was a senior officer in the Australian Army, who served in the positions of Chief of the General Staff from 1975 to 1977, then Chief of the Defence Force Staff from 1977 to 1979; the professional head of the Australian Army and Australian Defence Force...
, Chief of Defence Force StaffChief of the Defence Force (Australia)Chief of the Defence Force is the most senior appointment in the Australian Defence Force . The CDF commands the ADF under the direction of the Minister of Defence, in a coequal arrangement with the Secretary of Defence, the most senior public servant in the Department of Defence.The position is a...
(1977-1979) - Vice Admiral Sir David StevensonDavid Stevenson (admiral)Vice Admiral Sir Hugh David Stevenson AC, KBE, RAN was an officer of the Royal Australian Navy, eventually serving as its Chief.-Early life:...
, Chief of Naval StaffChief of Navy (Australia)The Chief of Navy is the most senior appointment in the Royal Australian Navy, responsible to the Chief of the Defence Force and the Secretary of Defence...
(1973–1976) - Colonel Roger Bryett, Commanding officer of NORFORCENORFORCEThe NORFORCE is an infantry regiment of the Australian Army Reserve. Formed in 1981, the regiment is one of three Regional Force Surveillance Units employed in surveillance and reconnaissance of the remote areas of Northern Australia.-History:In the late-1970s and early 1980s the need for a...
, (2002–2004)
Rhodes Scholars
- Peter G Annand - 1972
- Ronald O Bennett - 1931
- Ainslie G. Ross Sheil - 1956
- Harley C Stumm - 1935
Sport
| Name | Sport | Team/Club/Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Norman Peter Norman Peter George Norman was an Australian track athlete best known for winning the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. His time of 20.06 seconds still stands as the Australian 200m record. He was a five-time Australian 200m champion... |
Athletics | - |
| Clark Keating Clark Keating Clark Anthony Keating was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Known as "Crackers" , Keating was picked up by the Brisbane Bears as a local... |
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| Brad Moran Brad Moran (footballer) Bradley "Brad" Moran is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.-Early life:... |
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Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed The Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia, playing in the Australian Football League .... |
| Trent Durrington Trent Durrington Trent John Durrington is a former Major League Baseball player. He is primarily a second baseman. In his years as a student, he attended The Southport School located in Gold Coast... |
Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... |
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| John Buchanan John Buchanan (cricketer) John Marshall Buchanan is the former coach of the Australia national cricket team and of Kolkata Knight Riders team in the Indian Premier League. John Buchanan is a King's Old Collegian and is also an old boy of The Southport School, located in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia... |
Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the... |
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
| Scott Muller | Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the... |
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| Adam Scott | Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... |
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| Shannon Eckstein | Ironman Ironman (surf lifesaving) The sport of Ironman was developed in 1964 in Australia by Mr Valentine Trainor to combine the four main disciplines of surf lifesaving into a single race; swimming, board paddling, ski paddling and running... |
Northcliff Surf Life Saving Club |
| Caine Eckstein | Ironman Ironman (surf lifesaving) The sport of Ironman was developed in 1964 in Australia by Mr Valentine Trainor to combine the four main disciplines of surf lifesaving into a single race; swimming, board paddling, ski paddling and running... |
Northcliff Surf Life Saving Club |
| Duncan Free | Rowing Rowing (sport) Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water... |
Australia |
| Josh Graham Josh Graham Josh Graham, is a former rugby union player with the Western Force and current Australian Rugby League player. He plays the position of Centre for the Gold Coast Titans.... |
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| Mat Rogers Mat Rogers Matthew S. "Mat" Rogers is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He also played rugby union at the highest levels, becoming a dual-code international. The son of the late Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks legend and CEO Steve Rogers, Mat played for the Sharks... |
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| Nathan Stapleton Nathan Stapleton Nathan Stapleton is an Australian Rugby league player in the National Rugby League, from Deepwater in the New England region of Northern New South Wales. He plays for the Cronulla Sharks. He attended Toowoomba Grammar School and The Southport School, where he competed in many sports in the GPS... |
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| Caleb Brown | Rugby Union Rugby union Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand... |
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| Luke Morahan Luke Morahan Luke Morahan is an Australian Rugby Union Player for the Queensland Reds and the Australian Wallabies. He plays on the wings or at centre.-Career:... |
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Australia |
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Student Exchange Program
The Southport School is involved in a Student Exchange Program with the Baylor SchoolBaylor School
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in Chattanooga
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, Tennessee
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See also
- List of schools in Queensland
- List of boarding schools
- Education in AustraliaEducation in AustraliaEducation in Australia is primarily the responsibility of the states and territories. Each state or territory government provides funding and regulates the public and private schools within its governing area. The federal government helps fund the public universities, but is not involved in setting...