Convent 

Built in 1930 and officially opened in 1931, the Convent is a heritage building that houses the Administration offices downstairs and the Year 12 Study Area upstairs.

Chapel

Built in 1890 the Chapel is a beautiful and holy heritage building. It is used for prayer and quiet reflection, along with the school's choirs. The Chapel can also be booked for weddings outside school hours.

The Sister Colette Egan Information Centre

Sister Colette was a long-standing and much-loved member of staff and at one time College Principal. She was a woman of great intelligence whose life was dedicated to the service of young women. The College Library bears her name as a mark of the great respect and esteem in which she is held.
The College Library sits in the geographical centre of the College. It is staffed by an experienced team dedicated to helping students and staff make connections with the information they need.
It is a vital, creative, energetic and friendly part of the College.
 

Range of Services

• Research assistance for staff and students, especially in the senior years
• Reference collection carefully targeted to the curriculum
• Broad general and mature fiction collection that is heavily borrowed
• Wide reading program
• Participation in the Premier's Reading Challenge
• Online resources including the Australia New Zealand Reference Centre and Encyclopedia Britannica
• Book Week celebrations are held throughout Term 4 including quizzes, games, competitions, displays and activities
• Audio-visual collection including a digitised collection available across the College network
• Multimedia equipment including laptops, digital movie cameras and digital still cameras
• Audio-visual equipment including CD players and note takers
• PCs for use before, during and after school
• Literacy-based board games
• Copying, printing and binding facilities (black & white and colour)
• Software support for students
  

Skills addressed include:

• Defining a task
• Locating information
• Taking notes effectively and efficiently
• Referencing and creating a bibliography (Harvard style)
• Footnoting and endnoting
• Website evaluation and advanced search techniques
• Using online databases
• Avoiding plagiarism
• Writing a well-structured essay
• Presenting information in written and oral form
  

Opening Hours 

• 8am to 4pm - staffed by the Library team.
• 4pm to 6pm - After School Study staffed by a teacher who is there to help students with questions relating to specific study tasks.
• During the September/October holidays, prior to the Higher School Certificate, the Library is open by negotiation with senior students who would like to come to school to study.
  

Canteen

The Canteen serves fresh and healthy food to students and staff everyday. It is open before school and at both recess and lunchtimes.

Uniform & Book Shop

Religious Education Centre

The highly dedicated Religious Staff at Stella run a well resourced religious centre. 

Star of the Sea Theatre

The Star of the Sea Theatre is a professional two tier 300 seat theatre, complete with it's own orchestral pit and lighting and sound rigs. It is used by the college's performing art students at school and also on the many music, drama and dance nights hosted by the school. It is also heavily used by professional theatre companies, to see what's on in the theatre, click HERE to visit the Theatre's website

Careers Centre

The Careers Centre is centrally located in the school, providing convenient access for all students. This facility provides information on most College, University and TAFE courses in Australia and overseas. Videos on various training establishments and careers can be viewed from the comfort of lounge chairs or borrowed overnight. Aappointments can be made for interviews or students can simply pop in for advice on UAC and other tertiary requirements. Help is also provided for career, application and interview advice

Three Art Rooms

Light and airy standard art rooms with large workbenches for practical activities such as printmaking, painting, ceramics and sculpture. The rooms are also wireless so that any technology extensions to tasks such as animation can be performed in the classroom with laptops. Each art room has a storeroom attached with all materials close on hand.

Senior Art Studio

This is an exclusive space for Year 11 and Year 12 Elective students in Visual Arts accessible to them during class and free periods. It is a large space with high ceilings and plenty of light. The studio has two G5 Mac computers and two PC computers for handy research or digital photography and video editing software. This space is accessible to other year groups one afternoon a week for Art Studio time; an open access time for any keen art student across the school.

Two Photographic Darkrooms

Elective Photography & Digital Media students have access to two black and white darkrooms with 15 enlargers in each. Traditional black and white film development and photographic printing as well as alternative techniques in wet photography are explored in safe conditions in the darkrooms. Students also produce digital photographic works and are timetabled in computer rooms to do so with the use of Photoshop software.

One Jewellery & Ceramic Studio

The specialist jewellery and ceramic workshop allows students of elective Visual Design to explore precious and non precious materials in an exclusive purpose adapted space.  Wax cast, rivetted and soldered forms can be produced in brass, copper and silver in a safe environment. This space also provides for an area where clay forms can be handbuilt and kept for drying.

Two Textile Technology Rooms

The Textile Technology rooms are fully equipped with 24 computerised sewing machines, 4 overlockers, 2 ironing boards and various equipment associated with teaching the courses. We have 3 storerooms and they are allocated according to the classes that are using the facility. Presently we teach Year 8 Technology (textiles unit) Years 9 and 10 Textiles Technology and Years 11 and 12 Textiles and Design. The rooms are in use by these classes approximately 80% of the time and other subjects use these classrooms as general purpose as well.

Two Food Technology Facilities

Both rooms are fully equipped for teaching classes of Food Technology. We have a preparation room with an assistant who does ordering, organising and general cleaning and maintenance. Currently the rooms are being used by Year 7 Technology Unit, Years 9, 10, 11 and 12 Food Technology and Years 11 and 12 Hospitality Operations.

One Drama Studio

The Drama Studio provides students with a chance to create and perform in a professional environment. The space is designed to act as educational space allowing students the room to explore the diversity of theatre. The room is fitted with stage lighting / sound / whiteboards and blackout curtains. It provides adequate facilities for an audience of 30 � 40 people. The studio has its own stage like appearance. With wooden sprung floors and access directly to the theatre, the Drama Studio is an inspiring place for drama enthusiasts.

One Dance Studio

Dance students at Stella Maris College discover the art of movement in purpose built studios designed for class and performance. The studios are equipped with mounted bars, floor to ceiling mirrors, industry sprung floors and Denon sound equipment. In addition to the learning tools the studio can be transformed into an intimate performance space. Curtains frame the parameter of the room and provide a professional setting for smaller presentations. The Dance Studio is also fitted with numerous IT teaching tools, LCD projector and an observation screen creates a dynamic learning environment.

One video production studio  

One video editing suite  

The editing suite is located at the SMC Factory. It is primarily used for video classes to edit work but can also be used for smaller design classes. This facility is used by all video classes for all pre and post production work. The students edit on 12 G5 iMacs running non-linear program packages such as Final Cut Studio Pro and iLife. In addition to these, the students integrate software packages such as the Adobe Creative Suite and Macromedia MX into their productions.

Stella Maris College has eight private practice rooms providing for both student practice and private music lessons. Over 200 students each week receive music lessons from our private tutors. Each of the practice rooms is equipped with a MIDI capable digital piano and Computer to assist students with composition and music assignments. Our Conservatorium trained teachers provide individual or group lessons, both of which are available at the College during the school days.
Students have the opportunity to learn:

Stella Maris IT Department

Stella  Maris  Collegeenjoys comprehensive, diverse and modern IT facilities. The College uses Information Technology to enhance the quality of teaching, learning and to provide an electronic environment that will facilitate the integration of the school�s many systems.  The guiding principles for the deployment of information technologies are:

• To enhance the learning experience for all students 
• To facilitate the creation and transmission of new knowledge by the students and staff 
• To enable the School's administration to provide efficient and effective support to these functions 

   

The IT facilities at Stella Maris include:

1.  A comprehensive Learning Management System which holds hundreds of multimedia rich learning courses available anywhere at any time, teachers are constantly being trained to ensure that they have the relevant skills for today's learning. 
2. A modern e-learning centre consisting of 60 PCs and two mounted projectors. 
3. 6 mobile classrooms, these consist of 30 laptops that can be used in any classroom. 
4. 100% wireless coverage in the school for these mobile classrooms. 
5. Three specialist computer labs.
   
6.  All classrooms are fitted with a teacher PC and a mounted projector.
7.  A high speed gigabit switched network that covers every area of the college.
8.  4 Smartboards, these are digital whiteboards that can use digital contents to engage learners.
9. A graphic design site, known as The Factory, this site has over 60 modern Macs and a video production facility.  
10. Over 600 PCs and laptops at Stella Maris, these computers run over 60 applications covering nearly every area of the curriculum.
11. A small team of qualified and enthusiastic IT professionals who are always trying to keep the systems running with maximum uptime and constantly looking for new technologies to enrich the learning experience.

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