Our modern facilities

Easy access to the city with its museums, theatres and galleries, to the beach, harbour and sporting venues and to the universities means St Catherine’s is perfectly situated. Our location provides your daughter with a rich array of educational, sporting and cultural opportunities - all just beyond our gates.

As a K-12 day and boarding school on one campus, St Catherine’s gives your daughter access to outstanding educational facilities. Being on one campus allows students to move between the two areas of the School and, whether in the Junior or the Senior School, she will use the swimming pool and the specialist areas for drama, sports, music, science, art and technology. We even have our own museum to preserve the history of St Catherine’s!

An extensive building programme in recent years has given the School a mix of well-maintained older buildings and 'state of the art 'specialist facilities.

Having completed our magnificent award-winning Sports Centre in 2002, we re-designed our main Senior School learning spaces in 2006. The Isabel Hall Wing has won architectural awards for design and for environmental sustainability. Our students tell us that both are important and we encourage them to engage responsibly with the needs of the future. It is a 21^st century environment for 21^st century learners.

The light filled Junior School's Integrated Learning Centre

The light-filled colourful Junior School, with its own Integrated Learning Centre and Library, has extensive display spaces which feature student writing, art work and projects – a wonderful insight into the richness of a St Catherine’s education.

Everywhere, the classrooms open to outside areas and to quiet withdrawal spaces. The corridors are learning areas of their own, and inside the rooms teachers and students have access to interactive whiteboards and other technologies.

The Dame Joan Sutherland Centre for the Performing Arts incorporates a drama theatre, recording studio, ballet studio, band room, and music practice and teaching areas. The theatre foyer provides an exhibition and rehearsal space, as well as an area for medium sized school functions. The Independent Learning Centre and Student Meeting Room overlook the lawns and swimming pool.

Throughout the School our high technology computing facilities are regularly accessed by students. Your daughter will have before and after school access to computing and study facilities in the Independent Learning Centre and the Senior School Library. Everywhere technology supports learning.

Set on 2.2 hectares, with mature trees and breath-taking views of the ocean

The Boarding House, Uniform Shop, Deli, Before and After School Care facilities and Staff Crèche are all on the same site. For students in Years 11 and 12 there are kitchen facilities and a Year 12 Common Room, built around a sunny courtyard. For worship and quiet contemplation, the Chapel is a focal point of the School’s Christian ethos.

Beautiful gardens and quiet niches create a sense of space, with mature trees and breathtaking views over the ocean.

The Isabel Hall Wing - environmentally sustainable and a 21st Century learning space