Ignatius Park College

📚 BOOK WEEK 2026 // Today, our IPC community celebrated Book Week 2026 with this year’s theme, “Symphony of Stories”! 🎶📖

From Narnia, Harry Potter and Spider-Man to soldiers, crayons and so many more, our students and staff brought their favourite stories and characters to life.

It was fantastic to see so many of our IPC men and staff getting into the spirit of Book Week and celebrating the power of stories, imagination and reading. 💙💛

A special thank you to our wonderful LRC staff for creating such a beautiful and welcoming space to celebrate Book Week. Your creativity and effort helped bring the theme to life! 📚✨

🏏 NQ SECONDARY SCHOOLS CHAMPIONS // Congratulations to Ignatius Park College teams on winning the NQ Open Male A Division & Intermediate Male A Division Secondary Schools competition! 🏆

The challenge doesn’t stop here, with Iggy now set to take on the FNQ champions in a battle of the North in a little over a fortnight. Well done, Iggy! 👏

📚 MEET THE AUTHOR - TRENT DALTON // This week, our Year 11 English students had the incredible opportunity to take part in a Zoom Q&A session with international bestselling author 📖💻

Trent is the author of Boy Swallows Universe, which was adapted into the popular Netflix series, as well as All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories, Lola in the Mirror and Gravity Let Me Go.

It was a fantastic opportunity for the boys to meet the author behind the novel they are currently studying, Lola in the Mirror, and gain valuable insights into his writing, characters and storytelling.

A memorable experience that brought their English studies to life! 👏📚

🏉 COWBOYS CHALLENGE 2026 - THAT’S A WRAP // Our Cowboys Challenge 2026 season has come to an end. While the result wasn’t the one we were hoping for, our young men can be incredibly proud of their effort, commitment and determination throughout the season. 💙

A huge thank you to our incredible coaching and support staff for the time, dedication and commitment you have given to our boys this season.

We would also like to thank our 2026 sponsors for getting behind our boys and supporting them throughout the season:

👏 Brothers Leagues Club Townsville
👏 Triple M Townsville
👏 Ausfield Services
👏 EV2 Sportswear Australia
👏 Douglas Family Medical Centre
👏 RMS Engineering & Construction - Australia
👏 i4architecture
👏 Waltlec Industries
👏 Townsville Earthmoving
👏 Whitsunday Civil P/L
👏 Pacific Islands International
👏 Hello Health
👏 Boost Juice Townsville Shopping Centre

Your support helps provide our young men with opportunities to compete, develop and represent our College with pride. We are incredibly grateful for your investment in our students and our rugby league program. 🙌

Never Me, Always We.

🚀 MARS ROVERS - ENGINEERING IN ACTION // Mr Lucas’ Year 12 Engineering students have spent the term designing, developing and prototyping their very own Mars Rovers! 🔴🪐

Many students modelled their designs on the rocker-bogie system used by NASA across several of its current and previous Mars rovers.

Take a look at their impressive prototypes! 👏🔧

🏅 GREY MATTERS OLYMPICS // Yesterday, a group of our Year 11 students put service into action at the Seniors Expo at Murray Stadium! 👏

Our students helped run the Grey Matters Olympics, supporting eight aged care homes from across Townsville as they competed, connected and had plenty of fun. 🏆

A fantastic opportunity for our young men to build connections with older members of our community and experience the value of giving back. 💙

🏉 COWBOYS CHALLENGE GRAND FINAL // LET’S GO, BOYS! 🏆

It’s Grand Final time! Our boys take on Kirwan in the Cowboys Challenge Grand Final this Thursday at 10:30am at Jack Manski Oval. 💪🏉

📺We’ll be livestreaming the game in The Hall from 10:30am, giving our students the chance to come along, get behind the team and cheer our boys on! 📣

The livestream is also available to anyone with a Townsville Bulletin subscription.
🔗 https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/.../live.../league

Best of luck, men! Bring it home! 💙🏆

🎵🌏 YEAR 7 ENGLISH: UNDERSTANDING HOW ARTIST ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE // What does it mean to use your voice to make a difference?

Throughout this term, our Year 7 English students have been exploring the power of advocacy songs and poetry to raise awareness of important social justice issues. Through texts such as Dear Future Generations and Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, students examined how artists use language features, poetic devices, and powerful messages to advocate for environmental issues such as deforestation, pollution, and climate change.

Taking their learning beyond the classroom, students visited the College Yarning Circle and surrounding natural spaces to create their own advocacy-inspired poetry. Surrounded by nature, the boys reflected on the environment and crafted thoughtful poems that captured their perspectives, concerns, and hopes for the future. The experience encouraged creativity, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of how words can be used to inform, persuade, and inspire action. Well done, Boys!

🏏 QSS CRICKET GALA DAY // Our Senior and Intermediate Cricket teams are ready to represent IPC at the Queensland Secondary Schools Cricket Gala Day. 💪🏏

Senior Team: Wednesday at Endeavour Park
Intermediate Team: Thursday at Gill Park

Spectators are welcome, so if you’re free, come along and support the boys! 👏🏏

Best of luck to both teams! Play hard, play fair and represent IPC with pride. 💙