College Facilities
The Canterbury campus is home to an impressive range of student, family and staff venues and facilities.
- Our award-winning Early Learning Centre for Kindy and Pre-Kindy – including Bush Kindy activities.
- Our Canterbury OSHC: Outside School Hours Care full-service facility for Before School Care: 6:30am – 8am; After School Care: 3:15pm – 6pm; and Vacation Care: 6:30am – 6pm.
- Our Junior and Senior School campus classrooms, specialist facilities, labs, digital hubs, meeting rooms and libraries.
- Our Canterbury Events Centre for large-scale functions, school assemblies and major chapel services.
- Our Canterbury Functions Centre for mid-sized catered events and P Block’s sheltered gardens for smaller outdoor occasions.
- Our Care Central student services hub offering medical care and counselling, plus the College Chaplain.
- Our Canterbury Kitchen Garden offering seasonal fruits, vegetables and herbs, alongside valuable sustainability, environmental and food services education.
- Our 33 hectares of beautiful lawns, gardens, ovals, native bushland and outdoor play areas.
- Our Yalburru Community Café and Splash & Smash Café open to the whole Canterbury and Logan Community.
- Our Uniform Shop, indoor Chapel of the Good Shepherd and outdoor Bush Chapel.
- Our many sports facilities including six playing fields, multi-purpose outdoor courts, indoor and outdoor gym, cricket nets, squash courts and two huge sports halls for netball, basketball and volleyball.
- Our new Canterbury Taipans High Performance Centre features a heated 10-lane 50-metre Olympic-size pool; heated undercover Learn To Swim pool; eight tournament standard hardcourt tennis courts; and full professional athletics precinct – including the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 400m running track; encircling long jump, triple jump, high jump, javelin, discus and shotput facilities.
- Our Performing Arts students have their own large performance centre and auditorium, dance studio, music rehearsal rooms, soundproof recording studio, outdoor amphitheatre and more.
- And there is Canterbury’s industry-standard Trade Training Centre, Functions Centre Hospitality Kitchen and Restaurant, Technology Precinct and Centre for Entrepreneurship and Leadership.
Our Aquatic Centre features the following:
- 10-lane Olympic 50-metre heated swimming pool:
Open to the public for lap swimming 5:30am – 8:00am & 3:00pm – 6:00pm Monday to Friday plus 6:00am – 10:30am Saturday mornings. - Dedicated marquee-enclosed Learn To Swim heated pool.
- Highly experienced coaching teams.
- Professional quality training programs.
- Splash & Smash Cafe.
- Large fully equipped changerooms facility with parent rooms plus indoor and outdoor showers.
- Fully open to the general public alongside Canterbury Junior School & Senior School students.
- Swimming Canterbury Taipans Memberships available NOW.
- Plenty of on-site parking.
- Use the Sport Precinct Gate via 182 Old Logan Village Road, Waterford then follow the signs.
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Our Tennis Centre features the following:
- Eight ITF International Standard acrylic hardcourt tournament-approved tennis courts.
- Highly experienced coaching teams.
- Professional quality training programs.
- Tennis Pro Shop & Splash & Smash Cafe.
- Large fully equipped changerooms facility with parent rooms plus indoor and outdoor showers.
- Fully open to the general public alongside Canterbury Junior School & Senior School students.
- Tennis Canterbury Taipans Memberships available NOW.
- Plenty of on-site parking.
- Use the Sport Precinct Gate via 182 Old Logan Village Road, Waterford then follow the signs.
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The Performing Arts Theatre accommodates 224 guests and is ideal for performances, workshops and presentations.
It can be accessed via the Easterly Street Gate with ample parking available.
The Athletics Precinct contains an impressive 400m International Standard athletics track that came to Canterbury as part of the tender process of the Legacy Asset Program after the GC2018 Commonwealth Games.
The athletics track incorporates 6 running lanes and spaces for long jump, triple jump, pole vaulting and shot put.
The Athletics Precinct can be accessed via the Sport Precinct Gate via 182 Old Logan Village Road.
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Our Bush Chapel is a perfect outdoor venue for small event gatherings, with a superb view back across the school campus. An event hire of the Bush Chapel can be paired with also hiring the Canterbury Function Centre nearby as a break out or catering location.
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The Canterbury Events Centre (CEC) is a multi-use venue, for hosting large-scale events or sporting matches. There are three multi-purpose courts inside CEC to accommodate netball, basketball and volleyball. Each court has electronic scoreboards as well as floodlighting for evening matches.
The CEC includes a stage, toilets, a mezzanine level and kitchen facilities, with ample parking in the adjoining Junior School carpark via the High Road Gate on High Road.
The Sports Hall is a multi-use facility, available for events and sporting fixtures. It has two indoor courts, impact flooring and an electronic scoreboard. It also has changerooms and toilets onsite, and ample parking nearby via the Sport Precinct Gate on Old Logan Village Road.
Our Canterbury Function Centre is perfect for hosting small-mid sized workshops, meetings and events.
The venue has flexible seating styles, an onsite bar and kitchen facilities and ample parking nearby.
The Canterbury Function Centre can be accessed via the Sport Precinct Gate on Old Logan Village Road.
Our Yalburru Community Café is located next to the Canteen and can be accessed via the High Road Gate via High Road.
The café is open from 7:00am – 12.30pm Monday – Friday during term time. It remains open between 8:15am -10:45am from Monday to Friday during the school holidays.
Our BRAND NEW Splash & Smash Café is located within the Aquatic Centre and can be accessed via the Sports Precinct Gate via Old Logan Village Road.
The café opening times are flexible but it is generally open from 3:30pm – 6:00pm Monday – Friday during term time.