For over 140 years, Columba Catholic College has offered an outstanding student experience, encouraging students to be the best they can be. Columba students more than just attend; they form part of a community with a history that stretches back to the nineteenth century. With outstanding contemporary facilities across two campuses; extensive curriculum offerings focused on contemporary competencies of connection, collaboration, entrepreneurial thinking and a growth mindset; students are well equipped to be the leaders and innovators of tomorrow.
Columba is a vibrant, affordable P-12 Catholic College catering for the full needs of families and students. Being co-educational, students can find their own special niche for learning and personal growth. With a kindergarten on site, run by Catholic Kindy’s, our educational setting gives families a seamless educational and cultural experience spanning across the early, middle and senior years phases of learning. This P-12 setting gives students access to a wide range of subjects and opportunities, matched to current and emerging pathways and occupations.
Columba Catholic College students have a sense of purpose. This purpose, of being the best they can be, drives them to grab the many opportunities available, to achieve a balance between their academic, social, spiritual, sports and cultural pursuits.
Our College camping facility at Marybank, a 30 hectare property, ensures that the balance between academic rigours and time away in the great western outdoors features prominently in our purposeful curriculum and pastoral offerings.
Our twin boarding facilities on Mt Carmel Campus (for boys) and St Mary's Campus (for girls) ensure that the residential needs of both sons and daughters are met with sensitivity to their own special circumstances. We are proud of our wrap around program in boarding, where students enjoy structured weekend activities; transport to sporting and work commitments and travel to and from Townsville by College bus for weekly boarders. This sense of family and service is a hallmark of the Columba boarder.
The three Catholic traditions that formed the College – the Christian Brothers; Good Samaritan and Mercy sisters provide a model of how the Columba student treats one another, as well as the way in which students work hard to use their God given gifts, for the betterment of society. Each student is recognised as an individual, and we strive to come to know the real person inside each child as they grow, mature and develop. There is no blueprint for the "Columba student" - each child is different; we see our role as helping all of our students to become the best they can be without compromising the true nature of their personality.
Columba Catholic College is a place where children can confidently be themselves, growing in every way to become competent, confident, compassionate and successful contributors to society. This is done in a safe, nurturing and academically challenging environment with an extensive range of co-curricular opportunities.
Columba Catholic College has an enrolment of approximately 600 students.
The population of the College comprises students from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds and includes students from rural Queensland, from regional centres of Queensland, from interstate, students of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, and some in whose homes English is spoken only as a second language.
One of the ongoing challenges which the College is always endeavouring to meet is to find effective ways of meeting the range of academic needs of its students - the extremely gifted, those for whom learning is difficult, and the students of average ability for whom a creative approach to curriculum is no less necessary.
In keeping with the Mission Statement, teachers at Columba Catholic College are invited to see their vocation as a following of Christ, the ultimate teacher. In doing this, they will endeavour to provide a caring environment based on sincere relationships, to help students internalise Christian values.
In the same spirit, the College will endeavour to provide the students with a sound up to date curriculum which is aimed at developing each individual's potential in a range of areas, including academic excellence. Believing that the ideal process of education is a shared one and that faith is assimilated through contact with people whose daily life bears witness to it, the College invites parents, students and staff to share the same basic Christian approach to life.
Charters Towers is a city of 10 000 people situated 135 km south-west of Townsville. The city has a long history of providing quality education to the people of the Charters Towers community and to families from across North Queensland.
In recent years, that provision has been available to people from a wider background, including students from overseas. The city has a number of day and boarding schools, Catholic, Anglican and non-denominational, as well as State Primary and Secondary schools. The economy of the town is otherwise built on mining (gold, in particular) and on the beef industry.
In 1998, the three Catholic schools in Charters Towers amalgamated to form a single school, Columba Catholic College, operating from the three existing campuses. The new school comes under the authority of the Diocese of Townsville, through the Catholic Education Office.
Columba Catholic College shares in the mission of Christ's Church to further the coming of God's reign of Justice, Peace, Compassion and Redemption.
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