Points of Difference

Opportunities Beyond the Classroom

At TAS, students from kindergarten through to Year 12 have a wide range of opportunities available to them. With over 15 fixture based sports on offer and 40 plus ensembles, band and choirs, students at Toowoomba Anglican School have ever opportunity to realise their potential outside with classroom. Students participate in annual camps, tours and excursions to help enhance the curriculum. Leading initiatives, such as the Gateway Program, Options Program and the Thrive Pastoral Care and Wellbeing Program allow students to experience real-world situations in a safe and nurturing setting.

Character Education

Toowoomba Anglican School believes that the purpose of school is not simply to prepare young people for a life of tests, but more importantly to prepare them for the tests of life. Character education, when taught well, will empower and liberate young people, and help them respond to the modern, day to day challenges they face. By adopting an Aristotelian virtue ethics approach, character education should enable young people to develop character virtues and practical wisdom, which helps them decide what to do when faced with moral dilemmas. The following virtues (among others): courage, kindness, justice, honesty, compassion, self-discipline, gratitude and humanity are developed at TAS.

Future Focused Facilities

With the implementation of a Master Plan based on future focused learning, current and new buildings are developed with student learning at the forefront. An integral component of the school’s pedagogical framework is creating a learning space that isn’t restrictive, but instead, allows the students to feel relaxed and comfortable and in turn, allows them to be receptive to what is being taught.

Learning spaces have moved beyond traditional building design to create unique learning space for our students. These contemporary learning spaces will take students out of the traditional classroom structure so that they can collaborate with others or work independently. Designed with multiple breakout spaces our classrooms allow greater freedom and opportunity for students to collaborate and think independently.

Community Networks

Toowoomba Anglican School has a long standing relationship with the education ad business community. These networks have been fostered to help provide our students and staff with a wide range of professional opportunities.

The school is a long standing member of the following organisations: Chamber of Commerce, the Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise group, Independent Schools Queensland, Australian Boarding Schools Australia, Association of Heads of Independent Schools Australia, Boarding Schools Association (UK).

Toowoomba Anglican School students take part in regular excursions and networking events at major Queensland Universities and Residential Colleges and we have hosted a number of tertiary expos annually. The school also has a number of networks with local and national apprenticeship for students wishing to take a vocational pathways.

Toowoomba Anglican School has historical relationship with number of leading schools globally, including in the UK, Japan, China.