Welcome to Our Lady of Dolours School
Deciding on the right school for your child is one of the most important decisions parents will make. Our Lady of Dolours has been meeting the spiritual, educational and pastoral needs of young people of this district for just over 60 years. Read more ... Schoolhouse Rock: a musical tribute to 60 years of living, loving and learning at Our Lady of Dolours, Mitchelton
Our Christmas concert told the story of how our wonderful school came to be. It was a highly accurate (completely ficticious!) recreation of the events that led to the opening of the school." From Schoolhouse Rock Our Fabulous Festival
The working together of members of our school over the past months contributed significantly to community building within our school. Numerous groups came together to plan, create, design and problem solve. Internal Review Summit - Our School Story
To gather feedback in the areas of Social Action and Justice, Students with Disabilities, Learning Support and Reporting Student Achievement, we invite you to participate in a short survey. Please follow the links below. Parent and Community Survey | Student Survey Fit and Healthy - Come and Join Us!
Fit Club is an extension to the very successful and well attended Kilometre Club, Fit Club has an emphasis on developing core strength, balance and sprinting techniques. We use a variety of activities, including Shuttle Runs, Relays and Boot Camp style rotations, and finish each session with a good warm down and some stretching. Attendance at Fit Club counts toeards participation in Active Travel. See us in action ... Checkmate!
Opti-MINDS Honours
After last year’s amazing win, the team was ready to do our school proud and make the most of the great opportunity. They certainly did that, after placing 2nd and earning Honours. The team was very proud of their presentation of Humpty Dumpty. Keep your eyes open for fundraising activities to help pay for our experience in the State Competition. Thanks for all your support. Read More... Creativity at OLD Students were asked to let their creative minds draw, paint, print, photograph, sculpt or combine media around this year's theme of forests. Well done Hannah! 60th Birthday and Feast Day Celebrations
Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh and local state member, Kate Jones were honoured guests. Premier Anna Bligh expressed her appreciation of our school community in her letter to Mr Anthony Lucey. See more ... Faster - Higher - Stronger ... and Fitter at OLD
Year 7 Lives Social Justice
Following this, the Year 7 students from OLD slept out for the night in conjunction with the St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal. They slept in the school courtyard and experienced just for one night what it means to sleep out in the cold. $$$ for Vinnies
The whole school was involved in raiisng this money through school events, many of which were the initiative of the students themselves and promoted and organised by various groups which ran:
See more ... OLD Celebrates...Our Learning!
We were delighted to see mums, dads, grandparents, family and friends joining in the celebration. See more ... Sunday Funday
See more ... Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car!
"It's another way of saving petrol and protecting the environment" agreed a collection of families as they piled out of their car pooled grey car. As a sign of our commitment to Active Travel many wore red to school. It certainly was a Big Red Carpooling Day! See more ... Fleet of Feet
A special mention goes to Allen who finished first out of sixty competitors in the Junior Boys race and to Ethan and Liam who came second and third respectively in their divisions in the Senior and Intermediate Boys races. Allan said, "I feel really proud of myself. All my training paid off. I feel happy about people saying to me that I did a good job." Read more ... Exploring Yesterday Today
They used internet and book sources to locate their information. "It was fun to learn how to design a website and have it published where the whole world can learn from it, " said Lilly. |
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It is a great pleasure to welcome you to Our Lady of Dolours website. Thank you for taking the time to explore our wonderful story and I hope that it offers you a window to our welcoming community and the many educational opportunities we can provide for your child. 
"Our Lady of Dolours School celebrated it's 60th anniversary this year. We thought it only fitting that this milestone should be celebrated in spectacular song and dance.
Who wouldn’t want their child to attend a school with such a great sense of pride and community as was evident at our festival? A number of people on the day were commenting about what a fantastic learning environment we have here at Our Lady of
As part of Brisbane Catholic Education's Renewal and Quality Assurance processes, each year we are required to review
Come to Fit Club: 7.30am every Wednesday and Thursday morming in the MPC.
On Wednesday October, some Year 4, 5, 6 and 7 students went to the St William’s Chess tournament to compete against the following schools: SPC, OLA, St Joseph’s, St Ambrose, Ashgrove State school, St Finbars and St William’s. The day was fantastic and fun. We all had a great time playing chess all day. 
On the 16 October Clare, Maggie, Maia, Lilly, Kayla and Liam travelled to the University of Queensland to compete in the 2011 Opti-MINDS State Finals.
Congratulations to Hannah on receiving a Highly Commended Award for her artwork entered in the QIEU 2011 Awards for Excellence in Art. 
On 13 September 2011 staff and students were delighted to join with current families to welcome former priests, sisters, principals, staff, pupils and families to commemorate the history of OLD.
On Tuesday 9th August 2011, all students participated in our annual Athletics Carnival. It was a beautiful day at Mitchelton High School, and our day started with a big warm up followed by the 200m sprints. 
Year 7 students from OLD, along with Yr 7 students from St Williams (Grovely) and St Andrew’s (Ferny Grove) came together to hear speakers from Rosies, St Vincent de Paul and our local Timor Leste parish group on Friday 29th July from 6pm – 9pm. 
OLD students were proud to present a cheque for $1000 to representatives of St Vincent de Paul. 
On 21 June we held our Celebration of Learning Day. This was a wonderful opportunity for students to share their learning with their families. It was a chance to celebrate as a community and to recognise how we:
Our very active and enthusiastic P & F team organised the wonderful Family Fun Day on Sunday 19 June at Fenwick Park. The day was full of lots of great activities and featured games, a giant soccer field, food, coffee and conversation and raised $1081.00. The story of the day was featured in the 
Yes the big red car made an impact at OLD on Big Red Car Pooling Day. Being the expert active travellers that we are we revelled in car pooling. 
Congratulations to all of our fantastic students who represented OLD at the Zone 4 Cross Country Carnival on 1 June 2011. A total of forty-six of our students attended, and, looking resplendent in their new red sports uniforms, competed against approximately 500 other students from nine other local Catholic schools. 
Our Year 5/6 class undertook research on some of the explorers who contributed to the original mapping of Australia's coastline.
