Glenorchy Campus
The Glenorchy campus is situated in Bowden Street, Glenorchy. It is a spacious, flat campus with the towering Mount Wellington as a magnificent backdrop.
The campus is orientated around the Central Administration Office which houses the administration for the College as well as the campus administration. Classrooms, a canteen, chapel, staff rooms, library, uniform shop and offices are situated in several buildings. The large, multi-purpose Bosco Centre houses the gym, performing arts and music while the adjacent Houghton House is home to a two-member Benedictine community. Nearby is the new Southern Colleges Trade Training Centre (see below), as well as facilities for subjects including art, catering and photography.
A redevelopment program for one of the older buildings has been approved for late in 2011.
Originally, the Glenorchy Campus was the parochial Holy Name School, run by the Dominican Sisters, before it merged with Savio College (Salesians of Don Bosco) to become Dominic College, which today is one of GYC’s association colleges and now is located on one site, closer to the mountain.
SOUTHERN CATHOLIC COLLEGE TRADE TRAINING CENTRE is located on the Glenorchy Campus. This state-of-the art VET training centre was opened in 2010 to Australia-wide attention. GYC is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and is the lead College in the Southern Catholic Colleges Trade Training consortium, the first non-government organisation of its kind in Tasmania. The partner colleges are: St James Catholic College (Cygnet), Mount Carmel College (Sandy Bay), St Mary’s College (Hobart), Sacred Heart College (New Town), Dominic College (Glenorchy), St Virgil’s College (Austins Ferry) and MacKillop College (Mornington). The consortium and the centre aim to encourage a greater retention of students through to Year 12 and to help build a body of workers to alleviate the skills shortage in Tasmania. Students have the opportunity while in Years 9 and 10 to start nationally recognised certificate courses which they can continue in Years 11 and/or 12 at GYC.
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