Canterbury College: Official Microsoft Showcase School!
Canterbury College: Official Microsoft Showcase School!
Did you know only 11 schools in Australia have achieved the status of being a Microsoft Showcase School?
To be recognised, you must graduate up through the levels - starting as a Microsoft Lighthouse School, through to being a Microsoft Gold School, and finally reaching the peak with Microsoft Showcase School status.
The Microsoft Showcase School Program is an educational transformation program connected with an international community of innovative schools worldwide.
This program facilitates immersive experiences to encourage lifelong learning and streamline the evolution of fundamental future-ready skills, allowing students to accomplish more.
Canterbury College is now well into its third year as a 1-1 Student - Microsoft Surface Pro Laptop Device school from Year 4 upwards.
Once the program is fully rolled out, students will also receive a new device every three years, typically in Years 4, 7 and 10.
This will mean students are always working on a device capable of the demands of evolving digital learning opportunities.
There has been tremendous uptake and support by families and staff as our students use the Microsoft Surface Pro devices to 'power' their futures.
Of course, on simple levels, our students use their devices to research and record information predominantly using the top-end Microsoft Office package we deploy and rapid school-based data delivery.
Even in non-1-1 years, most classes leverage the 'instant and permanent' OneNote to teach and warehouse lessons.
In conjunction with MyCC, this takes teaching and learning to levels not imagined by generations past.
Many schools right across the world using Microsoft products aspire to become Microsoft Lighthouse Schools.
Schools must really use the technology and show genuine commitment to value-adding as an experience and an education to achieve this status.
Once becoming a Lighthouse or Showcase School, that school has access to worldwide networks for sharing insights and best-practices using the Microsoft Education Transformation Framework.
Each school is also allocated specific advisors and support from Microsoft to enable even more digital transformation, backed by exclusive access to offers and next-generation products.
There are numerous Lighthouse Schools around Australia, but in 2021/2022, only eight officially approved Microsoft Showcase Schools - including your very own Canterbury College.
Canterbury can take pride in knowing that Microsoft has acknowledged our dedication to exemplifying vision, innovation, and academic transformation, allowing students to prepare for their future beyond our campus - and truly be World Ready!
Mr James Jenkins, our Director of Innovation and Learning, is the staff member driving this initiative and deserves a massive thank you for his wonderful efforts in this area.
Becoming a Microsoft Showcase School isn't a destination, but rather the beginning of another exciting journey. There will be new skills to learn and new tools to embrace as we turn our ambitions in the digital learning space into reality... - Mr James Jenkins
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2022 Canterbury ELC & Prep Easter Hat Parade
2022 Canterbury ELC & Prep Easter Hat Parade
One of our favourite events of the year - the ELC & Prep Easter Hat Parade! 🎩🧢👒
Happy Easter holidays everybody! 🐣🐇
PS: So good to have parents and carers back on campus again, now that Queensland Government COVID restrictions have eased. 🙏🥳
PPS: Here are just ten photos - the full 74-image photo gallery is on MyCC and our Facebook Page for sharing with your family. 📸📷
WEEK 2: Easter School Holidays: 4-Day ‘Learn To Swim’ Intensive Program - BOOK NOW!
WEEK 2: Easter School Holidays: 4-Day ‘Learn To Swim’ Intensive Program - BOOK NOW!
OPEN TO ALL COLLEGE FAMILIES | STUDENTS | STAFF | THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
Experienced and fully qualified coaches.
Quality sport programs.
Heated 10-lane Olympic-sized 50-metre Lap pool.
Dedicated heated marquee-enclosed ‘Learn To Swim’ pool.
Large fully equipped changerooms with parent rooms plus indoor and outdoor showers.
NEW Splash & Smash Café.
THIS Monday 11 – Thursday 14 April 2022 - ONLY 4 DAYS DUE TO GOOD FRIDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY (Friday 15 April).
• For ages 3 years & up.
• Five swimmers per 30-minute class.
• Levels: Cuttlefish, Crayfish, Lobsters, Swordfish, Marlins, Dolphins, Sharks.
Morning Class Lessons - Start Times (Half Hour Sessions): 8:00am, 8:30am, 9:00am, 9:30am.
Class Option A: 4-Day Week Cost: $65 per swimmer for 4 x Half Hour morning class lessons plus 1 x FREE Term 2 lesson.
NEW Private Option B: 4-Day Week Cost: $80 per swimmer for 4 x 20 Minute private lessons from 10am onwards.
BOOK NOW - Tel: 07 3299 0900 | Email: | ONLINE BOOKING WEBLINK HERE
LOCATION: Canterbury College - Aquatic, Tennis & Athletics Centre.
- Please use the Sports Precinct Gate via 182 Old Logan Village Road, Waterford.
- Then follow the signs with plenty of onsite parking.
YOUR HOSTS: Canterbury College and Canterbury Taipans Swimming.
Canterbury College - Sports Facilities Virtual Tour
Canterbury Tiny Taipans Swim School Webpage
WEEK 2: Easter School Holidays: 4-Day Athletics Development Camp - BOOK NOW!
WEEK 2: Easter School Holidays: 4-Day Athletics Development Camp - BOOK NOW!
OPEN TO ALL COLLEGE FAMILIES | STUDENTS | STAFF | THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
Experienced and fully qualified coaches.
Quality sport programs.
Professional standard athletics running track and facility.
Large fully equipped changerooms with parent rooms plus indoor and outdoor showers.
NEW Splash & Smash Café.
Canterbury student discounts.
THIS Monday 11 – Thursday 14 April 2022
• For ages 4-10 years old.
• Includes: Running Technique, High Jump, Long Jump, Discus, Shotput, Javelin.
• All events are rotated through each 3-hour session to maximise engagement.
• Our program teaches basic skills & fitness for each event in a safe & fun environment.
• Participants need to bring a hat, sunscreen, water bottle and morning tea snack.
• Ice block provided each day after the session is finished.
Time: 8:00am – 11:00am each morning.
DAY 4 Thursday: Participants MUST pack swimming gear for a special 11am - 12pm noon swim session AND 12pm noon Pizza Party at the adjoining Aquatic Centre.
Cost: $110 for all 4 sessions OR $35 per session.
BOOK NOW - Tel: 07 3299 0900 | Email: | ONLINE BOOKING WEBLINK HERE
LOCATION: Canterbury College - Athletics Track.
- Please use the Sports Precinct Gate via 182 Old Logan Village Road, Waterford.
- Then follow the signs with plenty of onsite parking.
YOUR HOSTS: Canterbury Taipans Athletics and Canterbury College.
Canterbury College - Sports Facilities Virtual Tour
Canterbury Taipans Sport Webpage
WEEK 2: Easter School Holidays: 3-Day Tennis Camps - BOOK NOW!
WEEK 2: Easter School Holidays: 3-Day Tennis Camps - BOOK NOW!
OPEN TO ALL COLLEGE FAMILIES | STUDENTS | STAFF | THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
Experienced and fully qualified coaches.
Quality sport programs.
Heated 10-lane Olympic-sized 50-metre Lap pool.
Dedicated heated marquee-enclosed ‘Learn To Swim’ pool.
Large fully equipped changerooms with parent rooms plus indoor and outdoor showers.
NEW Splash & Smash Café.
THIS Monday 11 – Thursday 14 April 2022 - ONLY 4 DAYS DUE TO GOOD FRIDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY (Friday 15 April).
• For ages 3 years & up.
• Five swimmers per 30-minute class.
• Levels: Cuttlefish, Crayfish, Lobsters, Swordfish, Marlins, Dolphins, Sharks.
Morning Class Lessons - Start Times (Half Hour Sessions): 8:00am, 8:30am, 9:00am, 9:30am.
Class Option A: 4-Day Week Cost: $65 per swimmer for 4 x Half Hour morning class lessons plus 1 x FREE Term 2 lesson.
NEW Private Option B: 4-Day Week Cost: $80 per swimmer for 4 x 20 Minute private lessons from 10am onwards.
BOOK NOW - Tel: 07 3299 0900 | Email: | ONLINE BOOKING WEBLINK HERE
LOCATION: Canterbury College - Aquatic, Tennis & Athletics Centre.
- Please use the Sports Precinct Gate via 182 Old Logan Village Road, Waterford.
- Then follow the signs with plenty of onsite parking.
YOUR HOSTS: Canterbury College and Canterbury Taipans Swimming.
Canterbury College - Sports Facilities Virtual Tour
Canterbury Tiny Taipans Swim School Webpage
2022 Secondary Interhouse Dodgeball Competition
2022 Secondary Interhouse Dodgeball Competition
As the saying goes: If you can dodge detention… you can dodge a ball! ;-)
Here are ten photos from our end-of-term Secondary Interhouse Dodgeball Competition, with eventual winners: Those CRANMER HOUSE Wolves. 🐺🏆
Duck Dodge Duck Weave Dodge Duck! 🏐🏐🏐💨💨💨
Did you make the full 93-image photo gallery posted on MyCC and Facebook???
Years 3 & 4 Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Pizza Day
Years 3 & 4 Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Pizza Day
Canterbury's Years 3 and 4 students celebrated a term of hard work in our on-campus 'Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden' with a pizza making day last Thursday 31 March 2022.
A special 'thank you' to Mr Paul Penny and Mrs Brittany Sinclair for sharing their passion for all things 'green and growing' with these students, and creating such an engaging real-life program.
And it was wonderful to have Aunty Julie on-site to explain the connections between Indigenous culture and lifestyle and their native bush tucker - as Australia's original 'paddock to plate' farmers living entirely off the land.
Students enjoyed harvesting the ingredients they grew themselves in the garden, assembling their own pizza creations, witnessing the clay pizza ovens in action, and enjoying a delicious meal with their friends on the picnic blankets outside - all on the second last day of Term 1.
Bon Appetit - as these little 'green fingers' quickly turned into sticky 'pizza fingers'...
The full 98-image photo gallery is on MyCC and Facebook.
Canterbury's Year 8 Marvellous March Medieval Morning
Canterbury's Year 8 Marvellous March Medieval Morning
Last Wednesday morning 30 March, our Year 8 History students travelled back to Medieval Europe.
The students reinforced their specialised historical knowledge and skill sets developed during Term 1, by fully immersing themselves in an engaging Medieval Morning at the Canterbury Events Centre.
The enthusiastic team from Living History delivered fascinating information about Feudalism, the Black Death and the role of the knight in Medieval Europe.
Students enjoyed exciting opportunities to dress up in various chain and plate mail, and examine a range of replica weapons utilised throughout the Crusades era.
The successful morning concluded with well organised and safe knight duels - one touch and you were out, and had to hand over your weapon and shield to the next in line.
Congratulations to our Year 8s Rose Cook, Jordan Garner and Isabella Oxenbridge who won prizes for their outstanding costumes on the day.
Full 93-image photo gallery on MyCC and Facebook - including our three costume winners, and even our costumed teachers!
Mr Cameron Laidlaw
Head of Global Studies
Prep Indigenous Studies Incursion
Prep Indigenous Studies Incursion
Last week, Canterbury’s Prep classes enjoyed an interactive visit from Indigenous educator Mr Rick Roser.
The students had a wonderful time learning about Aboriginal culture, including body art and fire-making.
They especially enjoyed the activities being so 'hands-on'... or was that 'face-on'? 😝
Social Justice, Paper Cranes and Human Rights
Social Justice, Paper Cranes and Human Rights
As a college, we are constantly trying to do better in every aspect of our lives - both within our school community, and how we respond to the community and world at large.One aspect of this is in our awareness of social justice and human rights issues.
With such a chaotic beginning to our school year, with repeated lockdowns, flooding and mandated isolations, it is important to remember - that even with these inconveniences - we are still some of the most privileged and fortunate people in the world.
Currently, there are many places in the world where people are living under extremely adverse conditions.
The media is currently focusing its attention on the war in Ukraine, and we are witness to the pain and hardship inflicted on these people.
However, this also draws attention away from other struggles happening around the world, such as bombings in Yemen and Iraq, ongoing civil war in Syria, the continuation of conflict in Afghanistan and Kosovo, and economic and political crises in Lebanon and Haiti.
What we can often fail to remember, is that people on both sides of these conflicts suffer needlessly.
Whole families are left traumatised, and in many of these countries, hundreds of thousands of people are displaced, leaving them without food, water or shelter.
As a college, we want to be proactive around these issues, remain socially informed, and raise our collective voice in a protest for peace.
In doing so, we strive to divert the focus away from the politics surrounding these conflicts, and instead focus on the humanity behind the conflict, and the violations of human rights that occur, as nobody truly benefits in these disputes.
To kick-start this initiative, in Form class this week, we are asking everybody to fold and decorate a paper crane to be hung up in the Secondary Library.
Messages of peace, prayers and decoration are welcomed and encouraged...
Thank you for your contribution!
The Canterbury Social Justice Committee
UPDATE: Friday 1 April 2022 - New Secondary Library Paper Crane Photos Featured!