澳洲昆士兰州中学生的体育联盟。



QLD也和NSW一样，有中学生的体育比赛联盟。 The Great Public Schools' Association ofQld Inc 在QLD也简称GPS，一共九所学校，其中只有Brisbane State High School(BSHS) 是唯一的公校并且是混校，其它都是私立男校。BSHS只有男生才能参加GPS。

Aims and Objectives

The Great Public Schools' Association of Queensland Inc.(commonly referred to as the GPS) was established with the followingobjectives:

a) to promote and conduct various forms of activitiesbetween member schools with a view to fostering a spirit of fellowship, soundeducational practice and mutual support and assistance among schools;

b) to promote the welfare and best interests of the GreatPublic Schools of Queensland

c) to consider, deliberate upon and deal with educationalmatters and questions of common policy and principle concerning the GreatPublic Schools of Queensland;

d) to contribute to and influence the formulation andadvancement of educational policy in Queensland;

e) to exercise general supervision and control over thejoint activities of the Great Public Schools of Queensland; and

f) to do all such other things as are conducive orincidental to the attainment of the aims and objects set forth above or any ofthem.

Member Schools

The GPS Schools which are members of the Associationinclude:

Anglican Church Grammar School;

Brisbane Boys' College;

Brisbane Grammar School;

Brisbane State High School ;   

St Joseph's College - Gregory Terrace;

Ipswich Grammar School;

St Joseph's Nudgee College;

The Southport School; and

Toowoomba Grammar School

Current Activities

Sixteen GPS interschool sports and activities are includedin the annual program :

Academic Day of Excellence, Basketball, Chess, Cricket,Cross Country, Debating, Football, Gymnastics, Music, Rowing, Rugby Union,Sailing,  Swimming, Tennis, Track &Field, and Volleyball.

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另外有Queensland GirlsSecondary Schools Sports Association(QGSSSA), 也是九所学校， 是女生对应的GPS，也只有BSHS是公校，BSHS的女生参加GQGSSSA。 但还有St Peters Lutheran College是私立混校，StPeters的女生参加QGSSSA，但StPeters的男生不能参加GPS。

A Brief History

The Queensland Girls Secondary Schools Sports Association isan association of schools. It aims to provide member schools with opportunitiesto equip young women to meet and enjoy life's challenges. To achieve this aim,the Association seeks to provide quality sporting opportunities and socialinteraction within a school environment, which balances performance,participation, tradition and innovation.

1908 - The formation of an association called SportsAssociation of Secondary Schools of Queensland. Its aim was to "promote afriendly spirit between schools and at the same time deepen and strengthen theloyalty of individual girls to their own school. Members: Brisbane GirlsGrammar School, Somerville House and St Margaret's. There is some evidence tosuggest that Moreton Bay College may have participated in sporting exchanges inthese early years.

1911 - Ipswich Girls Grammar School and St Hilda's joinedthe Association.

1921 - Brisbane State High School joined the Association.

Post 1939 - (1939) St Aidan's; (1941) Clayfield College;(1945) Moreton Bay College and (1946) St Peters join the official QGSSSAcompetitions.

There have been several other schools who have been membersof the QGSSSA at some time - Girton College Toowoomba, Commercial State HighSchool, University High School, Wynnum High School and Technical College.

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QLD还另外有Associated Independent Colleges (AIC)， 也是九所学校，是一些不在GPS的私立学校，除了St Peters的男生外，还有其它8所私立男校的学生。

The Associated Independent Colleges, or AIC, is a group ofindependent secondary schools in south-east Queensland, Australia. With theexception of St Peters Lutheran College, AIC schools are all-boys schools (StPeter's secondary girls compete in the Queensland Girls' Secondary SchoolsSports Association).

The AIC was founded in 1998 as an athletic association formale secondary students. All eight colleges were formerly members of TheAssociated Schools (TAS), founded in 1956. Some colleges were originallymembers of the Metropolitan Catholic Schools Association (MCSA), founded in1934. The most prominent sports contested include rugby union,[1][2] cricketand football, as well as swimming and track and field.

Membership

Iona College, Brisbane

Marist College Ashgrove

Padua College, Brisbane

St Edmund's College, Ipswich

St Laurence's College

St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe

St Peters Lutheran College

Villanova College

TAS ： The Associated Schools

The Associated Schools (TAS) is an incorporated bodyinvolving fourteen co-educational independent Queensland secondary schools in avariety of sporting and cultural activities established in 1956 following thedisbanded Metropolitan Secondary School Sports Association in 1955, which hadbeen established in 1950.[1]