News and Events

Welcome to the John Paul College online, interactive newsletter – ‘Burgundy+Blue’. Each week, the community will have access to all the news from across the campus in addition to Mrs Karen Spiller’s Principal’s Voice.

While their peers were dreaming of Easter eggs over the last school holidays, 46 of Queensland’s brightest Year 12 students were dreaming up solutions to real world problems during STEM internships at QUT.

John Paul College Principal, Mrs Karen Spiller (OAM) has today received her Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) from His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC at the Investiture Ceremony at Government House in Brisbane.

Games wrap-up: across the 11 days of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, the John Paul College family united to cheer on four alumni athletes and their display of athleticism, humility, courage and sportsmanship.

Look out for Genevieve LaCaze (alumnus 2006/07) at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Genevieve will be competing for Australia in the 3,000m steeplechase. In the video below, she talks about her formative years at John Paul College and her rise to become Australian champion and a dual Olympian.

Congratulations to Year 11 student, Blake Jones who has been selected in the U18 Australian team to compete at the 2018 Albert Schweitzer International tournament in Germany at the start of April.

On the eve of the selection trials for the Australian Commonwealth Games swimming team, we wish our five John Paul College competitors all the very best.

Could this be the world’s most idyllic workplace? Dr Ashton Gainsford (Class of 2007) commenced a new job this month – The University of Queensland’s Research Station Manager on Heron Island, an evergreen coral cay surrounded by 24 hectares of coral reef at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.