School Life

Loyola Jesuit College aims to help every individual student to develop his or her abilities, talents and personality to the fullest possible extent, and hopes always to respond to the needs of the individual. But individual development would be incomplete and distorted if it led to self-centredness and selfishness. An important part of the education of the individual is learning to live as a member of a community, realising that the way students lead their lives affects not only themselves but also the community as a whole.

A wide range of activities is offered in an effort to give our students as broad an education as possible. As always it is those students who give most of themselves that stand to benefit more from the system.

Boarding House Structure
There are four houses in Loyola Jesuit College, namely Connelly, Loyola, Regis and Xavier. They are named respectively after the foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus, Cornelia Connelly, and three Jesuit saints: Ignatius Loyola, John Francis Regis and Francis Xavier. Each student in the school belongs to a house. The house functions as both a pastoral and sporting platform. The housemaster and housemistress, assisted by the house teachers and the house prefects, run each house jointly. A Dormitory Director and a Matron live with the boys and girls respectively. Their duties are designed to complement those of the housemasters and housemistresses.

The house system is a means of engendering a spirit of cooperation among the students by organising and encouraging competition between the houses on a basis other than age or ability. The house system is structurally unique in that it is organised vertically rather than horizontally. The system provides students of more general ability with an opportunity to make a contribution to school life and be acknowledged for doing so.

Each student is allocated to one of the four houses - ideally the same house as his/her previous sibling - but otherwise on a random basis, so that the numbers and abilities in each of the Houses are ostensibly the same.

College Dress Code
The dress code uniform underscores the dignity and seriousness of purpose with which we regard our education. Students are expected arrive in school each term wearing an approved school uniform. All students must come to class each day in clean and neat school uniforms.

The Approved School Uniform includes:

• White shirt/Blouse on navy blue trousers/skirt

• Navy blue cardigan/sweater

• House Wear: Blue and white check dress/Shirt

• Sunday Wear

• Sportswear: White T-Shirt and Navy blue shorts (both marked with the College logo)

• Foot wear: Black leather sandals with white stockings, canvas shoes, football boots