Site & Facilities
The college is situated on a sloping block of land extending back from Hardy Street in Dover Heights. The site is close by to Bondi Beach, and the college makes use of the beach where it is able. The school has uninterrupted views West to Sydney Harbour and the Sydney CBD.
The college occupies one building with three connected blocks. These blocks include the historical buildings that comprised Dover Heights Girls High School and the extensions and renovations to that site completed in 2006. The blocks are arranged down the slope from Hardy Street in the East to the fields in the West. As such, the higher floors of the school are on the Eastern side, progressing down to the lower floors on the Western side.
Block A, in levels 4 to 7, situated by Hardy Street, houses the administrative and executive offices, Technical and Applied Studies staffroom, the Social Sciences, History and languages staffroom, classrooms for History, Geography and Mathematics, Metalwork, Woodwork, Home Economics,Languages and Visual Arts rooms, a Dance Studio, The school Hall and purpose built special education classrooms. For the most part, Block A is the site of Dover Heights Girls High School in its original state.
Block B in levels 3 to 6, situated on the South of the site, houses the Mathematics, English, Home economics and Visual Arts staffroom, the staff common room, the School Library, classrooms and labs for Computing, and classrooms for English and Science.
Block C, in levels 1 and 2, is situated on the West of the site, houses the Music, PDHPE, Science, Computing and Creative and Performing Arts staffroom, classrooms for Music, PDHPE and Film, A broadcasting room and two partial levels of staff carparks.
A fourth Block is located opposite to Block B and sometimes referred to as Block D, houses the school gymnasium and the "locker room", a room with lockers.
The canteen is a small, separate building in the middle of the school.
The school also has basketball courts and one oval on the West of the site.
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