Spacious, comfortable rooms and shared spaces ensure your child has the best possible boarding experience while they live away from home.
Frewer and Dellahale Houses are our main accommodation buildings, with students separated based on gender and year groups. Between these buildings are our recreational and common areas.
Closed circuit video surveillance is in place throughout the site. Internal phones, fire doors and alarm systems also support staff to maintain the safety and wellbeing of students.
Each student is provided with a single room that features a king single bed, reverse cycle air-conditioning, wardrobe, drawers and a full-length mirror. There is a large desk and pin-up-board for study, and shelf space for school supplies and personal items to make their room feel like home.
We also have some larger wheelchair-accessible rooms.
Our accommodation blocks have common rooms that include televisions, kitchen facilities and comfortable furniture.
There are common rooms for both junior and senior students.
The college has a big screen projector in the shared common area at the end of the dining room. This is great for video games, movie nights and watching Netflix. We also have a brand new gaming room, complete with a comfortable couch and neon lighting.
At Geraldton Residential College, we encourage your child to have a balanced life, and we offer them a variety of recreational options to suit their interests.
We have recreation rooms to accommodate music, craft, table tennis and foosball.
Outside, students can use our large grassed areas, undercover recreational area, basketball court, netball hoops and swimming pool.
Our students get involved in a range of sports and we provide playing areas and sports equipment for them to enjoy. Our supervisors encourage our students to join sporting competitions after school and on weekends, and often get out on the courts themselves.
The college has two 14-seater vans and one 24-seater bus, giving students access to other areas in Geraldton or facilities for sport or community activities. Your child can speak with college supervisors about any transport needs they have during the term. Students can book their bus runs at reception daily.
Students are welcome to borrow a college bicycle to ride to school. Parents are asked to provide a TransGeraldton SmartRider card for their child which gives them access to public transport. Using a Smartrider card, students receive a student fare on school days. Students and parents are responsible for keeping their SmartRider card safe and loaded for travel to and from school. Access information about SmartRiders from the TransGeraldton website.
Students are not permitted to drive personal vehicles while boarding at the college. Students must have supervisor and parental permission to ride in other people's personal vehicles and the driver must be an adult. A student with a current driver’s licence may only drive their personal vehicle to travel between home and the college with supervisor and parent approval, and keys are surrendered to supervisors during their stay.
Your child may be eligible for subsidised travel for their trips between home and the college. Subsidised travel provides up to 4 return trips from your home address to the college, one for each term. Discover more about the subsidy and your eligibility through the Student Subsidised Travel Scheme.
The college can provide bus transport to transfer students between the college and the airport or bus depot. We support students to book bus transfers once they arrive at the college, for example, should they need to travel home for the weekend. We need at least one day’s notice to organise a bus transfer.
Geraldton Residential College facilities
A range of comfortable, practical and student-focused facilities are provided to make students feel at home and enhance their boarding experience.
The foyer of Geraldton Residential College.
Geraldton Residential College signage in the college foyer reads: Respectful. Responsible. Caring.
Students in the dining room at Geraldton Residential College
Boarders sitting by the edge of the swimming pool at Geraldton Residential College
The beautiful, landscaped grounds around the swimming pool at Geraldton Residential College.
Boarders can have fun on the basketball court at Geraldton Residential College.
The new games room at Geraldton Residential College has computer games and old-school arcade games for our boarders to enjoy after school and on weekends.
The new games room at Geraldton Residential College has neon lighting and a big screen tv for computer games.
The yarning circle at Geraldton Residential College is under a nice shady tree and painted with Aboriginal artwork.
The wellness room at Geraldton Residential College is an inviting, comfortable space for our boarders to relax.