NEW OFFER: $50 Canterbury College Aquatic & Tennis Centre Student Vouchers | Valid Semester One - AVAILABLE NOW!
NEW OFFER: $50 Canterbury College Aquatic & Tennis Centre Student Vouchers | Valid Semester One - AVAILABLE NOW!
What: $50 Canterbury College Aquatic & Tennis Centre Student Voucher.
- A $50 student voucher to go towards ANY of our Centre's swimming or tennis programs.
When: Redeemable For Semester 1 | AVAILABLE NOW – Until Friday 31 May 2024.
Where: For Canterbury College's Taipans Aquatic & Tennis Centre.
Who: For ALL Currently Enrolled ELC & Prep – Year 12 Canterbury Students.
Why: To recognise and reward our wonderful Canterbury students!
If you are currently enrolled in any Canterbury Taipans swimming or tennis program with us, simply complete the form, and we will automatically credit this $50 to your family account.
If you are NOT currently enrolled in any Canterbury Taipans swimming or tennis program with us, please complete the form, and we will contact you to discuss the enrolment process and organise a FREE assessment trial.
Once registered in a program with us, we will then apply the $50 credit to your family account.
PLEASE NOTE: Our regular Terms & Conditions do apply – including notice periods and cancellation periods.
Please enjoy this reward on us…
PLEASE LOG INTO YOUR MYCC NEWS FOR THE ONLINE FORM WEBLINK.
Mr Kym McIntosh
General Manager – Taipans Sporting Club
Canterbury College
T: 07 3299 0900 | E: OR
Loud Lunch – Canterbury Rock School Concert | 1:30pm – 2:15pm Lunch Break, THIS Monday 11 March @ Arts Centre Amphitheatre
Loud Lunch – Canterbury Rock School Concert | 1:30pm – 2:15pm Lunch Break, THIS Monday 11 March @ Arts Centre Amphitheatre
What: Loud Lunch – Canterbury Rock School Concert.
When: 1:30pm – 2:15pm (Recess 2 Lunch Break), THIS Monday 11 March 2024.
Where: Arts Centre Amphitheatre – Senior School.
Who: ALL Senior School Students & Staff Welcome.
Hosts: Canterbury Rock School Bands.
Cost: FREE!
Bring your friends and your lunch and listen to some very talented music student performances.
See you there!
Mr Simon Lane
Studio Instructor | Coordinator of Rock School / Music Technology
Monday Afternoon’s 2024 First Rock School Studio Recital | Photo Gallery
Monday Afternoon’s 2024 First Rock School Studio Recital | Photo Gallery
On Monday afternoon we hosted our first Rock School Studio Recital for 2024 after school.
13 students showcased their steadily growing musical talents, presenting the pieces they have practised throughout Term 1.
We – along with their parents and carers – eagerly anticipate their improving performances in Term 2 and beyond…
For more photos, please visit our Facebook Page.
Canterbury College - Studio Tuition
Canterbury’s Studio Tuition Program is available to all students from the ELC to Year 12.
Lessons are delivered by specialist teachers in the areas of Dance, Drama and Music – Orchestra Instrumental, Band Instrumental, Rock School, Piano, Guitar and Voice.
Our teachers work with students to nurture and fully develop their abilities.
Students have one-on-one, paired or small group studio lessons which are scheduled on rotating timetables throughout the school day.
All tuition lessons take place in our modern, air-conditioned Performing Arts Centre inside purpose-built studio rooms.
Students may also elect to undertake examinations – including AMEB or Trinity for Music, plus Speech, Drama and Communication, and RAD for Dance.
Full information HERE - Studio Tuition – Canterbury College
REMINDER: 'Find The Joy' Logo - Student Design Competition | CLOSES 9am THIS Monday 11 March (Week 8) - ENTER NOW!
REMINDER: 'Find The Joy' Logo - Student Design Competition | CLOSES 9am THIS Monday 11 March (Week 8) - ENTER NOW!
Are you a keen designer or even just a little creative???
We are looking for students to design a logo for the new Canterbury College focus or theme for this year - ‘Find The Joy’.
Please create your 'mini masterpiece' design and SUBMIT IT HERE: https://forms.office.com/r/F0CK4M7xBd
The competition is open to all currently enrolled Years 5-12 Canterbury students.
Your logo must include the text ‘Find The Joy’ and reflect this joyful spirit.
DUE DATE: 9:00am THIS Monday 11 March 2024 (Week 8).
The winner will be announced at Assembly at the end of Term 1!
We can't wait to see your designs...
GOOD LUCK!
2024 Brisbane Junior Metro Swimming Championships: Canterbury Taipans Race Results
2024 Brisbane Junior Metro Swimming Championships: Canterbury Taipans Race Results
Five of our talented junior swimmers represented the Canterbury Taipans team over the weekend at the 2024 McDonald’s Brisbane Junior Metropolitan Swimming Championships.
Led by Taipans Swimming Coach Yufen ‘Crystal’ Cao, their efforts and race outcomes below are truly remarkable.
Throughout the entire Long Course summer season, these swimming club members have demonstrated an exceptional level of dedication to training and regularly attending prep meets and club swimming events.
Special mention to Brody Huckin – who was both nominated and qualified for the Brisbane Junior Championships’ 200m Freestyle, but unfortunately was unable to attend due to illness.
Next up we have the 2024 Speedo National Prep Meet coming up on the 16-17 March weekend, with four Canterbury Taipans currently nominated to swim.
Here is the event registration weblink.
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Our five Canterbury Taipans swimmers’ results across 18 race events over the weekend:
Pegella:
100m Breaststroke: Improved Personal Best by 11.84 seconds!
Vienna:
50m Backstroke: Improved Personal Best by 5.76 seconds
50m Butterfly: Improved Personal Best by 0.93 seconds
50m Breaststroke: Improved Personal Best by 1.17 seconds
100m Individual Medley: Improved Personal Best by 1.64 seconds
50m Freestyle: Missed Personal Best by just 0.34 seconds
Zara:
100m Backstroke: Improved Personal Best by 6.95 seconds
100m Freestyle: Improved Personal Best by 4.21 seconds
50m Freestyle: Improved Personal Best by 3.22 seconds
Lelia:
50m Butterfly: Improved Personal Best by 5.53 seconds
50m Breaststroke: Improved Personal Best by 4.98 seconds – Top 10 Finish
100m Individual Medley: Improved Personal Best by 12.08 seconds!
50m Freestyle: Improved Personal Best by 4.64 seconds
Keenan:
25m Butterfly: Improved Personal Best by 1.57 seconds – Top 10 Finish
25m Breaststroke: Improved Personal Best by 1.61 seconds – Bronze Finish
100m Freestyle: Improved Personal Best by 5.13 seconds – Gold Finish
25m Freestyle: Improved Personal Best by 1.73 seconds – Gold Finish
25m Backstroke: Improved Personal Best by 2.66 seconds – Silver Finish
Go TEAM TAIPANS!
Want to join us? Get started by contacting: Canterbury Taipans Aquatic Centre - T: 07 3299 0900 | E:
REMINDER: 2024 Tennis Qld Term One Super 10’s Junior Tennis Competition | TWO Trial Day Training Camps: 4pm - 5:30pm, THIS Tuesday 5 & 12 March @ Canterbury Tennis Centre - REGISTER NOW!
REMINDER: 2024 Tennis Qld Term One Super 10’s Junior Tennis Competition | TWO Trial Day Training Camps: 4pm - 5:30pm, THIS Tuesday 5 & 12 March @ Canterbury Tennis Centre - REGISTER NOW!
Dear Canterbury Tennis Families,
Please see below the Tennis Queensland message promoting their exciting Super 10’s QLD Junior Tennis Competition.
This is a great step for those young players aged 10 Years & Under seeking to play with the National Tennis Academy.
So for any Canterbury College student or Canterbury Taipans Club Member aged 10 years old or younger on Trial Day – Sunday 24 March 2024 who registers, I will be conducting TWO special Training Camp afternoons to assist with your trial preparations.
These 90-minute sessions will be held at our Canterbury Tennis Centre THIS Tuesday 5 March and Tuesday 12 March 2024 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm.
This should help you feel fit and firing for Trial Day on Sunday 24 March from 8:30am – 1:30pm at the Queensland Tennis Centre.
Yours in tennis…
Mr Charlie Tsai
Head Tennis Coach
Canterbury College & Canterbury Taipans Club
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Subject: Registrations Open For 2024 Super 10’s Junior Tennis Competition
We are thrilled to announce that registrations for Super 10’s 2024 Term 1 are NOW OPEN.
The Super 10’s competition is an exciting opportunity for 10 & Under players to compete in a team environment.
Here are the key details regarding the Super 10’s:
Venue: Queensland Tennis Centre.
Age eligibility for Super 10s is as follows: All players must be aged 10 years old or under as of the Trial Day.
Players turning 11 years old during the season will be eligible to complete the competition for that term.
Super 10’s is a Green Ball team competition targeting aspiring tournament level players.
To register and learn more about the competition, please visit our website HERE.
We look forward to seeing young passionate and talented players on the court.
Thanks for your continued support, and let’s make Super 10’s a memorable and successful event.
Canterbury College's 2024-2027 Strategic Direction
Canterbury College's 2024-2027 Strategic Direction
This week, we launched our new Strategic Direction 2024-2027.
This document charts an ambitious agenda as Canterbury moves towards its 40th Anniversary in 2027 and our 50th Anniversary in 2037.
Included in the Strategic Direction document is a reiteration of what makes Canterbury 'Canterbury' - our motto, vision, values and expectations of our students.
But within the 25 strategies, spread across 5 spheres, I hope that parents, carers and staff are able to appreciate that we are embarking on some large scale reforms and improvements to the quality of our educational product and our campus.
I am ambitious for our students and our College.
What we are doing in the school is beginning to be noticed by other schools in the sector across Australia.
The profile of our talented staff is lifting.
The breadth and development of our students across the four dimensions of a Canterbury education - Academics, Sport, The Arts, Service and Leadership -- is also lifting.
The national awards and recognition that the College has received in the past five years is testament to the inspiring work occurring across all parts of our community.
We are responding in this document to some of the megatrends impacting education across the world -- generative AI, deregulated school days and blended learning, phonics-based literacy, 'big-data', character development, sustainability and the changing world of university and work.
Strategies sit within this document which actively engage with these issues at a school level, as they will impact the experience of our students over the next decade.
Importantly, within each Sphere, we have also acknowledged that there is continuous improvement required in the operations of the College and we have been careful to capture these priorities as well.
As our Junior School nears its capacity, our Senior School does have room to grow in size.
This will happen naturally as larger numbers push through from our Year 6 cohorts every year.
But we have a generous campus footprint, thanks to the foresight of the founders and early board members at Canterbury.
It is therefore not difficult to adjust our buildings and offerings to a larger Senior School of about 1,000 students by the end of the decade.
Planning will commence in this Strategic Direction cycle for at least one new state-of-the-art building for our Senior School students which transforms and amplifies their educational experience.
As is always the case, if there are any strategies or priorities in this document that you would like to discuss with me personally, my door is always open for conversations.
Kind regards
Mr Dan Walker
College Principal
Year 6 Bridge Builders Program: Student Mediators Training | Video
Year 6 Bridge Builders Program: Student Mediators Training | Video
https://youtu.be/cXCx0LoISGs
Today, select Year 6 students participated in our special Bridge Builders Program performing Mediators Training.
They focused on equipping fellow students with the interpersonal skills to resolve conflicts on their own.
This Monday, they will apply these handy skills in the ‘real world’, by teaching younger students how to handle playground disputes themselves – without adult intervention.
Relationships are an essential part of school and life.
Learning how to make healthy friendships and manage difficult relationships are essential life skills for all ages.
Now conflict is a normal part of any community, however, unresolved or poorly resolved conflict, can cause children to feel stressed and separated from others.
It can also reduce their ability to be learners.
Some children are growing up more confident in operating technical devices than dealing with frustration, developing flexible thinking, or problem-solving challenging relationships.
So Canterbury is equipping our students with the tools to deal with everyday conflict and reduce bullying through this program.
The sessions explore the following skills:
• Understanding Choices – the difference between conflict and bullying.
• Responses – the physiological and neural reactions to conflict or bullying.
• Growing Resilience Skills.
• Managing Conflict.
We also invite parents and carers to attend our Empowered For Life: Bridge Builders Program – Parents/Carers Information Session happening THIS Monday afternoon:
What: Empowered For Life: Bridge Builders Program – Parents/Carers Information Session.
When: 4:30pm – 5:30pm, THIS Monday 4 March 2024.
Where: Junior School Library – Canterbury College.
Parking: Available via Junior School Carpark, High Road, Waterford.
Who: For ALL Junior School Parents & Carers: ELC – Year 6.
Hosts: Junior School Admin With Guest Speaker: Jocelyne Chirnside M.Ed. (Hons), Dip. T.
Cost: FREE!
RSVPs: Please RSVP by 11:59pm THIS Sunday 3 March 2024 by CLICKING HERE.
We look forward to seeing you next Monday…
Talking Taipans – Episode 02, 2024
Talking Taipans – Episode 02, 2024
https://youtu.be/5dCkTXZX48k
Welcome to Episode 2 of Talking Taipans for 2024!
In this episode, Mr Marraiya and Mr Maxfield cover...
- Highlights from our most recent TAS & JTAS Round vs Ormiston College
- Our upcoming fixture
- School uniforms when spectating
- TAS & JTAS Swimming Championships
- ELC – Year 6 Cross Country Carnival
- And the new Captains vs Coordinators Games
AND… AS ALWAYS, GO TAIPANS! 
Jasmine (Year 12) & Taylor (Year 9) Wheatley: 'Edgy And Hedgy' | Radio Appearances | December's Debut EP Release | EP Launch Tix ON SALE NOW @ Kingston Butter Factory!
Jasmine (Year 12) & Taylor (Year 9) Wheatley: 'Edgy And Hedgy' | Radio Appearances | December's Debut EP Release | EP Launch Tix ON SALE NOW @ Kingston Butter Factory!
Cranmer House’s Jasmine Wheatley (Year 12) and Taylor Wheatley (Year 9) have been pretty busy on the music entertainment front over this summer season.
It included releasing their debut EP back on 20 December 2023 titled ‘EST. 2019’ as the new band 'Edgy and Hedgy'.
To follow up, this dynamic musical duo performed two songs LIVE on air this morning (Monday 12 February) on Radio Logan 101FM at 10:15am on the Mike Bennett Show.
Two songs from their EP will also be played on Radio Logan 101FM's Songwriter Showcase this evening (Monday 12 February) around 10:15pm.
Talk about opening and closing the show!
Next on the gig calendar for this sister brother combo is officially launching their EP at the Kingston Butter Factory - 270 Jacaranda Avenue, Kingston on Saturday 16 March.
This will be a FREE event - but tickets still need to be booked online, as seating will be allocated, BY CLICKING HERE.
Canterbury students, staff and families are most welcome to attend and support Edgy and Hedgy in person!
This launch event will also feature the musical talents of Canterbury's Trio Bellissimo and recent Arts Captain - and extremely talented singing graduate - Nathaniel (Nate) Harris performing under his stage name 'N8'.
Their Spotify EP Link - EST. 2019 - EP by Edgy and Hedgy | Spotify
Their Instagram Account - @edgyandhedgy_official
Congratulations Jasmine and Taylor - unless you prefer 'Edgy and Hedgy' - and best of luck embarking on your musical careers!
PS: And just for clarification - Jasmine is Edgy and Taylor is Hedgy... :-)
