All Saints Anglican School
All Saints Anglican School is a private, co-educational school located in Merrimac, Queensland, Australia. It was established in 1987 under the Aegis of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane. The school is located on a 40-hectare campus in the Gold Coast Hinterland. All Saints is divided into three sub-schools: the Junior School, the Middle School and the Senior School. It has a total student body of approximately 1850 students. In 2012 All Saints celebrated its 25th year on 1 November.
Merrimac Campus
The school has two swimming pools, one indoor and one outdoor, both heated. It also has playing fields and sporting facilities including a three-storey health and physical education centre with a work-out room, indoor and outdoor basketball, tennis, hockey and volleyball courts and a golf course.The campus has a multi-level science facility with a lecture theatre for over 200 students, a music centre and a theatre space consisting of the main theatre, seating 530, a smaller theatre, a full costume department and a green room. The Holloway Music Centre has two practice spaces for band and oral rehearsals, classrooms and sound-proof studios.
House system
The Junior School consists of four different houses named after the dairy farms that were previously located near the School campus: Lyndon, Oakey, Talgai, and Clovelly.The Middle and Senior Schools together have eight houses named after School Council Members: Fradgley, McIntosh, Day, Burling, Burchill, Reeves, Hobart, and Rapp.
A variety of activities are undertaken via house based competitions including swimming, athletics, cross country, chess, singing and public speaking.
Notable alumni
Entertainment
ASAS International
The School has its own English Language Centre called International House. It gives international students the option to live either on campus in its boarding facility which houses 60 students, or in homestay accommodation while they complete short term English language courses or attend the school in mainstream classes.Extracurricular activities
All Saints offers a wide variety of extra-curricular activities including music, drama, choir and sporting activities. A variety of outdoor experiences are also offered at the School and participating students learn physical skills and leadership. As well, the School offers the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and holiday ski trips.Students may also participate in a number of language and cultural experiences and trips which are regularly undertaken to New Caledonia, France, Japan, China, Italy and Spain.
The Japanese Language Supplementary School of Queensland Japanese School of Gold Coast, a weekend Japanese school, holds its classes at All Saints. It maintains its school office in Surfers Paradise.