St. Augustine's College, the oldest operating Marist school in Queensland is a Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys in Cairns. It also operates as a boarding school for girls who attend St. Monica's College. Our aim here at St Augustine's is to provide each boy with an environment in which he feels welcome and secure, where he can pursue his dreams and develop his talents with both confidence and purpose, and where his full human growth - spiritual, academic, physical, emotional and vocational - can be nurtured. At St Augustine's we believe that at the heart of a boy's movement through adolescence is the development of a healthy self-esteem. Boys need to feel positive about who they are, so that they can grow into confident, articulate and compassionate young men who will live their lives with purpose and optimism. The College's broad range of curricular, co-curricular and pastoral programmes all begin with this premise. Therefore, the chief priority of "Saints" is to ensure that each of our students feels known and known well. We take to heart the first rule of the founder of Marist education, St Marcellin Champagnat, that "to educate a child properly, first you must love him." Our goals over the current five year planning period are summed up in our planning publication, "The five years 2007 to 2011 are planned as the second half of a defining decade for St. Augustine's College. It will be a time during which the College will have creatively re-imaged itself, and strategically re-positioned itself, to secure its place as the school of choice for Far North Queensland families seeking a superior contemporary Catholic education for their sons. These five years will see the completion of a targeted staff recruitment initiative, an imaginative capital development programme, and a considered curricular expansion. Above all, the College seeks to be a place that is alive with the gospel of Jesus Christ lived out in ways that engage and excite 21st century youth. As Marist students, they will be men of..