Year 10 Agriculture & Horticultural Class | Photos
Year 10 Agriculture and Horticultural Class | Photos
Our Year 10 Agriculture & Horticultural Class got their hands dirty this morning as they planted some tiny greens.
Chives, capsicums, rosemary, parsley and lettuce! 🫑🥬🦋🐛
We can sense our Canterbury Hospitality classes utilising these growing sprouts in the future!
Check out more of the photos HERE.🌱🥗🌮 @sakgf
RACQ's Driver Distraction Program @ Canterbury 🚗🚦
RACQ's Driver Distraction Program @ Canterbury 🚗🚦
RACQ has launched a state-wide campaign to increase awareness of distractions whilst driving. 🚘🚸🚙🚧🚦
Today, they presented our Year 11 and selected Year 12 students with vital information regarding the risks involved when attempting to multitask or rapidly shift focus between two things.
In the recent 2022 RACQ Annual Road Safety Survey, they found that:
🎧📟 64% of drivers said they used a hands-free mobile phone behind the wheel
📱almost 32% said they used a hand-held phone
🍔🥤 74% said they ate and drank
🛰️🗺️📍 and nearly 60% viewed or entered GPS settings while driving
RACQ's Driver Distraction Program is a great way to educate drivers on how we can minimise our risks and keep everyone as safe as possible.
Thank you, RACQ! 🙏
Year 1 Home Reading: Some Changes & Easy-To-Follow Wonderful Advice!
Year 1 Home Reading: Some Changes & Easy-To-Follow Wonderful Advice!
Dear Parents and Carers,
You may notice some changes to the readers and reading activities that your child is bringing home this year.
Children require substantial practice to develop their reading skills to the point of fluency.
10-15 minutes of practice at home with a supportive adult can make all the difference!
This can enable children to apply letter-sound knowledge to reading simple texts.
The readers that your child will bring home will contain words that they can ‘sound out’.
You will notice the vocabulary in these books is very controlled.
This is because at this early stage of the reading process, words need to follow regular sound-symbol patterns, so that children are given opportunities to work out words for themselves, with your support.
Some of these decodable books may look ‘easier’ than some of the books your child may have received previously.
However, teachers have conducted thorough assessments that have identified your child’s instructional level, so that learning occurring in the classroom, is then consolidated at home.
If your child is still learning letter-sound correspondences, a reader may not be appropriate for them yet.
If this is the case for your child, you will receive other phonics activities to work on, until such time that they are independently blending some simple words.
Guessing words from a picture or from context should not be encouraged.
Instead, encourage your child to look at the letter-sound combinations and think about the sounds they represent.
When your child gets stuck on a word, encourage them to have a go at sounding out the word.
If necessary, demonstrate what this looks like first.
Please do not prompt your child to guess a word or use the picture to help them - reading is not about guessing.
This may have once been the case - however, current research indicates this is not an effective reading strategy for children.
Should you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher or myself directly -
Yours faithfully
Christina Jasem
Head of Literacy Development (Prep – Year 6)
Canterbury Outside School Hours Care | Opening Earlier From 6:30am: From Monday 20 February!
Canterbury Outside School Hours Care | Opening Earlier From 6:30am: From Monday 20 February!
Dear Parents and Carers,
Following feedback from our community, I am happy to announce that as of Monday 20 February, Canterbury's Outside School Hours Care service will be open for Before School Care from 6:30am.
Information regarding this service, as well as links to register and book, can be found here on the OSHC MyCC Page: WEBLINK.
Yours faithfully
Michelle Leftwich
Head of Junior School
Celebrating National Pizza Day @ Canterbury
Celebrating National Pizza Day @ Canterbury
🍕🍕🍕 As fate would have it, today is National Pizza Day and lucky for us, it's also Italian Thursday on the Canterbury Canteen menu!
What are your favourite pizza toppings? 🍖🐽 + 🍍?
#nationalpizzaday
More photos can be found on our Facebook page HERE.
Canterbury Tennis Centre: Adult & Family Casual Options & Prices - Cardio Tennis Sessions | Family Social Tennis Nights | Adult Social Tennis Mornings | Tennis Logan Fixtures
Canterbury Tennis Centre: Adult & Family Casual Options & Prices - Cardio Tennis Sessions | Family Social Tennis Nights | Adult Social Tennis Mornings | Tennis Logan Fixtures
Cardio Tennis Sessions: Tuesday Evenings 6:30pm - 7:30pm* | Thursday Mornings 8:30am - 9:30am.
Cost: $15 Per Person Per Session | Casual Bookings - ALL General Public Welcome!
*Leading into our Canterbury Cardio Tennis: 6-Week Summer Challenge! | 6:30pm - 7:30pm, TUESDAYS From 14 February - 21 March: FULL INFO & REGISTRATION WEBLINK HERE!
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Family Social Tennis Nights: Wednesday Evenings 7:00pm - 9:00pm.
Cost: $12 Per Adult Per Session | $5 Per Child Per Session | Casual Bookings - ALL General Public Welcome!
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Adult Social Tennis Mornings: Friday Mornings 8:30am - 10:30am.
Cost: $12 Per Adult Per Session | Includes FREE Hot Tea OR Coffee @ Our Splash & Smash Cafe | Loan Rackets Available | Casual Bookings - ALL General Public Welcome!
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Tennis Logan Fixtures: Thursday Evenings (Various Times).
3 Divisions Available | 2 Players Per Team | 2 Sets Singles Matches | 1 Set Doubles Matches.
Play for the mighty Canterbury Taipans in this Home & Away Tennis Logan League.
Membership Cost: $80 Per Year - Adult Competitive Membership.
Game-Day Cost: $20 Per Player Per Game-Day.
Includes End-Of-Season Trophy Presentation & BBQ.
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Canterbury College Taipans Tennis Centre
- Use the Sports Precinct Gate via 182 Old Logan Village Road, Waterford - Logan City.
- Plenty of onsite parking available beside the tennis courts.
Features
- Eight ITF international standard and Tennis Queensland tournament approved acrylic hardcourt tennis courts.
- Experienced and fully qualified coaches providing professional sport and training programs.
- Private one-on-one or group tennis paid lessons.
- Large fully equipped changerooms with parent rooms, plus indoor and outdoor showers.
- Tennis Pro Shop.
- Splash & Smash Cafe.
ALL Enquiries – Mr James Rapkins, Canterbury Tennis Program Manager: T: 07 3299 0900 | E: | ONLINE BOOKING WEBLINK.
Canterbury Cardio Tennis: 6-Week Summer Challenge! | 6:30pm - 7:30pm, TUESDAYS From 14 February - 21 March @ Canterbury Tennis Centre: REGISTER NOW!
Canterbury Cardio Tennis: 6-Week Summer Challenge! | 6:30pm - 7:30pm, TUESDAYS From 14 February - 21 March @ Canterbury Tennis Centre: REGISTER NOW!
What: 2023 Canterbury Cardio Tennis | 6-Week Summer Challenge!
Each Weekly One-Hour Session Features: Tennis Skills Drills | Fun & Fitness Games | Speed Ladders | Skipping Ropes | Mini Weights & More…
When: 6:30pm – 7:30pm, Tuesdays x 6.
TUE 14 FEB | TUE 21 FEB | TUE 28 FEB | TUE 7 MAR | TUE 14 MAR | TUE 21 MAR - FINALE.
Where: Canterbury Tennis Centre – Canterbury College: 182 Old Logan Village Road, Waterford.
- Fine Days: Court One | Rainy Days: Squash Courts.
- Use Sports Precinct Gate via Old Logan Village Road.
- Plenty of onsite parking beside the tennis courts.
Who: FOR ANYONE AGED 16 YEARS & OVER | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Hosts: Canterbury College Taipans Tennis Centre.
Cost: $70.00 Per Person - Covers Full 6-Week Cardio Tennis Skills & Fitness Program.
BOOK NOW – T: 07 3299 0900 | E: | BOOKING WEBLINK HERE UNDER TENNIS.
More Details:
- You MUST have a step tracker and calorie burn tracker on your Smart Watch.
- Please bring your water bottle and exercise towel.
PRIZES: FOR Most Steps Taken AND Most Calories Burned during the 6 x one-hour Cardio Tennis sessions.
Exercise activity conducted outside these sessions do not count – only the six totals added up at the end of each Tuesday night session, for the grand total steps and calories burned, by the close of the Tuesday 21 March Finale.
Prizes include Canterbury Taipans Aquatic & Tennis Centre credit vouchers and special merchandise.
Please spread the word and join up to challenge your family, friends, staff or colleagues in the local Waterford / Logan Community.
And let’s all get super fit during Summer!
Congratulations! NEW QLD Representative School Sport Program 19 Years Netball Coach: Our Deanne Hamilton
Congratulations! NEW QLD Representative School Sport Program 19 Years Netball Coach: Our Deanne Hamilton
Congratulations to our Director of Netball, Mrs Deanne Hamilton, on being appointed as the NEW Netball 19 Years Coach of the Queensland Representative School Sport (QRSS) Program.
Mrs Hamilton has led Canterbury's Netball Program from strength to strength - winning the 2022 QISSN Netball Cup, as well as making history by winning both the Cup and Shield double in the 2022 Vicki Wilson Championships for the first time ever!
In the same year, we were also awarded Netball Queensland's School of the Year.
We wish Mrs Hamilton all the best with her added representative responsibilities above her senior ongoing College role.
Canterbury Taipans Gaming Club Update
Canterbury Taipans Gaming Club Update
Canterbury Taipans Gaming Club is back and stronger than ever in 2023 with an expanding collection of board, card and tabletop games. 
This term, our Years 7 - 12 students have been boosting their game skills, card decks and friendship levels in the newly renovated Secondary Library. 
Nothing beats playing board games with friends... unless it's landing on someone's hotel-laden Boardwalk property in Monopoly. 
Photos can be found HERE on our Facebook page.
Canterbury Creators and Innovators Club Update
Canterbury Creators and Innovators Club Update
The Canterbury Creators and Innovators Club allows students to get creative, problem-solve and learn new skills as they explore real-life situations in a safe and supportive atmosphere with experienced Robotics and STEM teachers. 
Check out what our students have been up to during Term 1.
