The evening was opened by First Nations people and featured an Acknowledgment of Country and a traditional welcome dance, followed by performances by students, staff and community members.

The school describes it as "a centre that provides support and guidance to students who are having difficulties managing their own behaviour...

The focus of the support provided in the Blue Room is to enable students to better understand their behaviour and how to moderate their performance in the classroom and in the school grounds.

According to Queensland Education Department statistics, in 2019 fewer than 15% of parents wanted their children to receive religious instruction at the school.

[32] Of students identifying as religious, the largest groups were "Christian" (no denomination), followed by Church of England (belonging to the highly liberal[33] Anglican Diocese of Brisbane) and Roman Catholic.

Only a tiny proportion of students attended traditional Bible-believing Protestant churches (the largest group amongst these being five Lutheran pupils).

Department chiefs told school principal Shona McKinlay to keep the danger secret after deciding the risk was "minimal" once safeguards were brought in.

[54][55] In 2014, a parent alleged his daughter was told to sit out the NAPLAN tests because her previous performances were poor, in order to make the school's overall results look better.

[58] In 2018, a program called "Respect — Commit To It" was introduced in an attempt to counter the high levels of abuse and violence directed towards staff by students.

[59] Also in 2018, the school was badly damaged in a graffiti attack by students amidst its International Respect Day celebrations.

In the first instance, which occurred "weeks before a federal election", the school posted flyers on its buildings and fences and also some "campaign material was distributed in the students’ homework folders to take home".

[62] In the second instance, which occurred four months later, the school was caught again, this time using its Facebook page to promote the same union campaign.

[67] In 2021, the media reported the school was put into lockdown when students brought knives on campus with the intention of fighting.

[68] A head of senior school has been accused of sexual misconduct against a student[69] and multiple incidents of bullying student-teachers but no charges have ever been laid against him.