Mount Gravatt State High School

Mount Gravatt State High School
Mount Gravatt State High School
Location
	Mount Gravatt, Queensland , Queensland ; Australia
Coordinates	27°32′24″S153°4′4.8″E / 27.54000°S 153.068000°E
Information
Type	State High School
Motto	Digna Petamus; (Seek Worthy Things)
Established	1960
Principal	Ross McNichol
Years taught	Years 7-12
Enrolment	1200
Colour(s)	White, black & red
Mascot	MGH Dragons
Website	Official Homepage

Last updated April 01, 2024

Mount Gravatt State High School is a co-educational government secondary school of about 1200 students in Mount Gravatt, a suburb in the south of Brisbane, Australia. The school was opened in 1960.

Gateway school

The school is part of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry Project. As such it can be officially blended (along with five other schools) as ‘Gateway Schools to the ICT Industry’. Schools involved in this project are committed to increasing and improving the various and range of technology in learning. Students are encouraged to develop their learning and stills through the application of appropriate technology in education, as in many other schools.^[4]

Sport

Sport is one of the four major pillars of the values placed on students at MGH. As such, the school has had a long history in both competing and winning in competitions internally, locally, statewide, and sometimes nationally.^[5]

Sporting Houses

Students at Mount Gravatt are placed into four distinct houses at enrollment. Students remain within these houses for however long their enrollment lasts at the school; teachers however, will rotate from year to year to support different houses. The houses are named in honor of the traditional owners of the land on which the school is built on, paying homage and respect to its language and history.

The four house names are as follows:

Manooka (Red)
Turramurra (Green)
Kittani (Blue)
Attunga (Yellow)

Sports Carnivals

The school hosts three major house carnivals between the four houses. These events are considered mandatory for students to attend.^[5]

They are:

Swimming
Cross Country
Athletics

Held annually, these events are designed to maximized for student engagement, as well as foster school spirit and general competitiveness between the students. Points for each house on the day are calculated through four criteria, with most points rewarded from Age Champion downwards:

If a student achieves Age Champion.
Students that win any event in the top 3
Students that participate in any event.
Student Attendance Count

The house with the most points will receive that specific event's shield, and have their house name engraved upon in (I.e, Manooka wins the Swimming Carnival Shield).

Sporting Successes

Mount Gravatt High has had numerous successes since its founding in 1960. More recently, the school Futsal teams have found consistent success within the QSF and other associated Futsal School Invitational competitions.

In 2023, the U14 Girls team 2nd in their conference during QSF.^[6]
In 2023, the U16 Girls team were named the 2023 U16 QSF Champions, defeating Brisbane Adventist College 5–1.^[7]
In 2021, the U16 Boys team were named Champions in the Calamvale Futsal School's Invitational.^[8]

Notable alumni

Ross Clark – poet
Simon Shirley – decathlete who competed for England
Erika Yamasaki – member of Australian weightlifting team at 2006 Commonwealth Games.^[9]

Notable staff

Ian Henderson

Awards

Comalco – Brisbane's greenest and healthiest school 2005.^[2]
WasteSMART Schools Award – Best Implementation of 'Green' Policies in a SEQ School^[10]

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