The Ravenswood Junior and Senior Schools are located on one idyllic, convenient campus set in leafy grounds over 11 acres in Gordon on Sydney’s North Shore.
World-class, award-winning facilities support, enhance and extend our students’ learning and development.
These include the Senior Learning Centre, the Mabel Fidler Building (with its celebrated Learning Resources Centre) and state-of-the-art Petre Innovation Science and Technology Centre. The Centenary Centre features a performing arts auditorium, music centre and open exhibition space.
Students also enjoy dance studios, our large, grassed sports oval, an athletics field, and tennis, outdoor basketball and netball courts.
The large indoor sports and recreation centre features a multi-purpose space for indoor basketball, netball, badminton and gymnastics, a Strength and Conditioning Centre and a 25-metre heated indoor swimming pool and diving facility.
There is a School Health Care unit onsite, staffed by registered nurses from Monday to Friday.
Ravenswood is a five-minute walk from Gordon train station and the bus interchange.
Senior Learning Centre
The Senior Learning Centre opened to students in 2020 and officially opened in 2021.
The award-winning structure was designed to complement and reflect the history of Ravenswood’s physical development, from small cottages to large, modern buildings.
Its striking, copper-clad exterior has been described as ‘lyrical’, while its bright interior is accented by jewel-like blue and yellow glass.
Senior students love the natural light that floods all floors, and the innovative study and learning spaces throughout. The Senior Learning Centre was shortlisted in the Educational Architecture section of the 2021 NSW Architecture Awards.
Mabel Fidler Building
Opened in 2011, the award-winning Mabel Fidler Building is the hub of the School, meeting the diverse needs of the School community by providing spaces for formal and informal learning, staff and student lounges, a cafeteria, dance studios and School reception and administration.
It also houses the vibrant Learning Resources Centre (LRC), a welcoming space for students and teachers, with dedicated Junior and Senior School libraries, learning spaces and innovative seminar rooms.
The open space, bathed in natural light, includes a green room that encourages student recording, photography and podcasting. Students also enjoy using a stationary bike, installed in the LRC to support a healthy and stimulating learning environment.
The Mabel Fidler Building was awarded the Sir John Sulman Medal for public architecture at the Australian Institute of Architects 2012 NSW Architecture Awards and the Interior Design Impact award at the 2012 Australian Interior Design Awards.
The building has also received the 2012 RAIA Public Building Award, the Horbury Hunt Commercial Award 2012 and the 2013 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award.
The Centenary Centre
This Performing Arts and Music facility features a 362-seat auditorium, with a generous proscenium arch stage, two spacious dressing rooms, control room, box office, large foyer space, Assembly Hall and commercial kitchen.
The Centenary Centre stages professional full-scale musicals, plays, conferences and concerts and is used for School performances and events.
The Centenary Centre also features an open exhibition space that hosts the annual Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize and a variety of student Visual Arts, Design and Technology, and Technology and Applied Studies exhibitions throughout the year.
Multi-Purpose Sports Complex
The Ravenswood campus includes a 25-metre heated swimming pool and diving facility, Strength and Conditioning Centre, athletics oval and outdoor tennis, basketball and netball courts. The large indoor sports and recreation centre features a multi-purpose space for indoor basketball, netball, badminton and gymnastics.
The Petre Innovation Centre
The Petre Innovation Centre comprises eight innovative science learning spaces including seven laboratories and a separate microscope laboratory, two new science preparation rooms, student project store and two integrated seminar rooms. All learning spaces provide convenient access to the SciTech courtyard, which activates an external space as an effective extension to classroom and laboratory-based activities.
