About Us
Welcome from the Principal
Mr Dan Walker
Canterbury College is a coeducational Anglican Early Learning to Year 12 school, proudly serving families across Logan, southern Brisbane, and the northern Gold Coast.
Our purpose is clear. We are here to nurture and inspire confident, optimistic, and compassionate young people who are genuinely prepared for life beyond school.
Each day at Canterbury, students are known, supported, and challenged to grow across every dimension of their education. Academic learning is important, but it is not the whole story. We believe in developing capable learners, strong character, wellbeing, service, and a sense of belonging, so students leave us not only successful, but grounded and future-ready.
Our reputation as a progressive and inclusive school has been built over time through excellent teaching, strong relationships, and a commitment to improvement without elitism. We celebrate effort, curiosity, and progress, and we hold high expectations for every student, regardless of their starting point.
At the heart of Canterbury is an authentic community. Our teachers, coaches, instructors, and wellbeing teams work in partnership with families to ensure each child is supported, challenged, and cared for as they grow in confidence and independence.
Located in Waterford and supported by extensive bus routes across the region, Canterbury is accessible to families from Upper Mount Gravatt to Beaudesert, Ormeau to Greenbank.
Our fees represent strong value for the breadth of learning, care and opportunity offered to students across academic, co‑curricular, creative, physical, spiritual, and character development. Families consistently tell us that what sets Canterbury apart is not just what we offer, but how students feel here.
If you are seeking a school that combines high expectations with deep care, and ambition with humility, I warmly invite you to learn more about Canterbury College and what it means to be part of our community.
Dan Walker
Principal
Canterbury’s DNA
Academic Aspiration
Emphasis On ‘All-Roundedness’
Multicultural & Multi-Faith
Kindness & Discipline
Community
Social Justice & Service With Anglican Values
Here’s the ‘million dollar question’… What type of school is Canterbury?
Are we an academic school? A sporting school? Focused on the Arts? Pre-occupied with character development, service and leadership?
My answer to those who ask, is that we are both all of these and none of these. Let me explain…
There is no reason to think that we can or should only be capable of excellence in just one area.
I think that sells our students and our teachers short.
My emphasis as the Principal is to create an environment where each of the four dimensions of a Canterbury education is properly nurtured and resourced.
It is possible to be both a great sporting school and an award-winning performing arts school.
It is possible to expect continuous academic improvement in all our students, while ensuring their wellbeing and character development is well attended to.
It all comes down to having high expectations and having quality staff leading our student programs.
I truly believe that we offer you world-class teaching, coaching, pastoral care and wellbeing staff, who are genuine, extremely knowledgeable and compassionate.
And we provide this while maintaining high standards in uniform presentation, personal behaviour and social interactions.
Through my conversations with new parents or carers to our Canterbury Community – many of whom have long attachments to their previous schools, I know how important a holistic, ‘all-round’ education is to them for their children.
Canterbury’s ‘World Ready’ focus means that our overriding aim is to nurture and inspire confident, optimistic and compassionate young people who can navigate the world beyond our school gate.
We are proudly Logan’s leading ‘all-rounder’ private Anglican school and we take our responsibility to deliver on this ‘World Ready’ promise very seriously.
I warmly invite you to visit our beautiful Canterbury campus to see our premier coeducational school in action.
Mr Dan Walker
B.A. B.Ed. (UQ), M.Ed. (Monash) Grad.Cert. Div. MACEL
Principal
Canterbury College
