This College, Ambrose Treacy College, will be a year 4 to 12 boys’ school and it will open in 2015.

The opening in 2015 coincides with the State Government’s decision to move year 7 into the secondary years of education.

 

Ambrose Treacy College will expand on the current offerings of Nudgee Junior College which for 75 years has operated as a year 4 to 7 boys’ school on its Indooroopilly campus. Nudgee Junior has a proud tradition of being a leading provider of primary boys’ education in the western corridor of Brisbane. In its 75 years of operation, Nudgee Junior has earned the reputation of being a ‘real boys’ school, where the energy of boys is nurtured, channelled and celebrated. Ambrose Treacy College will inherit this wonderful legacy, and it dreams to grow this passion for boys’ education into the secondary school setting.

From March 2013, Ambrose Treacy College is now formally accepting applications for enrolments for boys in year 7 and 8 in 2015 and beyond. It is planned that the College will grow out from an initial intake of year 7 and 8 students in 2015 and expand over the next four years to complete the full school enrolment through to the first year 12 cohort who would graduate in 2019. Parents of boys currently enrolled at Nudgee Junior will have the option to automatically rollover their son’s current enrolment into Ambrose Treacy College. Similarly parents who have lodged an application to start at Nudgee Junior in year 4 in the years ahead will be contacted to roll their enrolment application over to Ambrose Treacy College.

The College has completed a building master plan and this will see the provision of a five stream secondary school built on the Indooroopilly campus. These new buildings will complement the existing Nudgee Junior facilities. A Development Building Application has been lodged with the Brisbane City Council and it is anticipated that construction of Stage A of this exciting project will commence at the end of 2013 to realise this 2015 start.

The establishment of Ambrose Treacy College will be an exciting development not only for the current Nudgee Junior community, but for the wider community in the western suburbs of Brisbane. To-date this corridor has lacked the options of a Catholic secondary boys’ school, and the opening of Ambrose Treacy College promises to be an exciting option for families as they look for a school that will give their son a quality educational experience to negotiate their teenage years.

Work is currently underway in preparation for a January 2015 start in years 7 and 8. Enrolment interviews will be conducted for years 7 and 8, 2015. In the upcoming months we will be launching a new website that will be updated regularly as further developments occur. I look forward to keeping you up to-date on this new and exciting development.

Yours sincerely
Michael Senior
Foundation Principal of Ambrose Treacy College