Holy Ground Coffee

Aquinas College now has a coffee van!

Holy Ground Coffee was established to provide the Aquinas community a place to meet and enjoy each other’s company over a great cup of coffee and light snack. While it feeds the community, it also serves to empower Senior School Students with employable and life skills, qualifications and experiences – teaching them customer service, accountability, mindfulness, perseverance and how to make a coffee that’s truly holy.

Both ATAR and VET Senior School students have the opportunity to gain work experience. Earn a wage and complete a certification. Musically gifted students from across the school are given the opportunity to ‘busk’ at the Holy Ground Coffee’s pop-up location next to the hockey pavilion. The van is designed to travel around the school and to Aquinas events – meaning you’ll never be far from drinks, cakes and toasted bagels made from fresh local produce.

If that isn’t enough to sweeten the pot, proceeds from sales will be used to establish a bursar fund to assist less fortunate boys to receive an Aquinas education.

Here’s what some of our #boybaristas have to say;

“I have been working at the Aquinas Coffee Van and it has been a very enjoyable experience, through working at the coffee van it has shown me how to handle the stress of working under pressure and with all inconveniences that have come with it, mostly heat and the pressure of making coffees for students, parents, and teachers. The owner, Amanda Wilson, is great to work with and has helped me and everyone else, and in all working at the coffee van has been such a great experience.”

Charles King

“In the van it has been fun, we have been serving coffees for about 5-6 weeks now and we are told that we’re doing well and that we look as if we are extremely experienced! It has been good fun and it has tough us how to deal with stressful situations, how to work with customers and how to deal with money.” Joshua McGrath

Opening Hours:

Mon – Thurs, 6am – 11am

Friday, 6am – 2pm

Saturday, 8am - midday

Red Haze Day

Come support the red and black on 14th August 2021. The College grounds will be open for a Super Saturday event - all of our winter sports teams competing on home ground.

The day will also include live performances from Aquinas bands, activities, tours of the ground and more. So come along, wear your Aquinas colours, show your Aquinas pride and help our 2021 Student Council fundraise for their bursary gift - giving underprivileged students the opportunity of an Aquinas education.