Extracurricular Activities

St Patrick's College Townsville offers a comprehensive range of extracurricular activities, opportunities and clubs for students, all of which are listed below. While some offerings differ from year to year, our College Calendar remains full and varied.

THE ARTS

• Dance Foundations
• Dance Troupe
• Drama Club
• Photography Club - Capture @ StPats
• Choir - Foundations
• Liturgy Choir
• Senior Girls' Vocal Ensemble
• Percussion Ensemble
• Guitar Ensemble
• Concert Band
• Rock Band
• Chamber Strings
• Taiko Drumming
• Extension Visual Arts
• Townsville Wearable Art
• Community events including: Strand Ephemera; QLD Creative Generation Art Awards; Townsville Eisteddfod; Mulkadee Youth Arts Festival; Combined Catholic Colleges Musical.

STEM

• Coding Club
• Reef Guardians
• #STEM Like A Pat's Girl
• STEM Trek USA 

BLOCK SPORT

Block Sport changes each term, in 2020 these include:

• Rugby Union
• Basketball
• Netball
• Volleyball
• AFLX
• Waterpolo

SPORT & FITNESS

• Running Club
• Interhouse and Interschool athletics, swimming and cross country 
• Community events such as the Townsville Running Festival, NQ Touch Championships

LANGUAGES

• Japan Study Tour
• Japanese Conversation + Taiko Drumming
• Community events such as: Japanese Speech Competitions; Japan Festival; Townsville Cultural Festival

COMMUNITY

• Mercy Girls in Action
• McAuley Ministry
• SONY Camp
• World Challenge
• Community events such as: Vinnies Sleep Out; Mercy Works program; Mercy student conferences; Catholic Education student conferences

ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT

• Debating
• Readers' Cup
• Optiminds
• UN Youth Young Leaders Summit
• Lions Youth of the Year
• Rostrum Voice of Youth