Facilities
The Dover Campus occupies 11 hectares in a central area of Singapore. Modern and well-equipped, there are a wide range of specialist facilities, including:
- the multi-purpose main hall, which seats over 400
- specifically designed rooms for art, drama, and home economics
- fully equipped laboratories for sciences and languages
- performance spaces, including two theatre halls seating 200 and 300
- technology suites to support IT and design curriculum demands
- two well-resourced libraries equipped to offer a range of services
- a dedicated University Counselling Centre staffed by full-time specialists
- music facilities include recording studios, practice rooms, a well developed Instrumental Teaching Programme and instrument hire, as well as opportunity to learn and perform on a Javanese gamelan orchestra
- extensive sports facilities including two sports halls equipped for a wide range of sports including badminton, basketball, floorball and volleyball; an Olympic-sized swimming pool; fitness centre and gymnasium; flood-lit tennis courts; playing areas - three of them Astroturf - for cricket, hockey, netball, rugby, and soccer; high-ropes course and rock-climbing walls
- two boarding houses for students aged 12 - 18 (Grades 7 - 12)
Specialist facilities at the East Campus include:
- integrated IT facilities including campus-wide wireless network and classrooms all fitted with interactive whiteboards
- sports facilities - Olympic size and learn-to-swim pools, full-size soccer pitch, four sports halls
- age appropriate, dedicated play grounds for Infant and Junior School students
- multipurpose halls
- specialist teaching facilities for Language
- dedicated specialist Learning Support staff
- theatres (tiered and black box)
- multi-purpose halls
- specialist music studios and teaching facilities
- art rooms, dark room, ceramics studio
- fully equipped design technology workshops
- drama and performing arts spaces
- home economics facilities
- two libraries equipped as state-of-the-art resource centres
- IT and computer labs
- language labs
- science labs
- modern, purpose built boarding house for students aged 12 - 18 (Grades 7 - 12)
- Infant School has 21 classrooms with an average floor area of 76 square metres and a maximum of 22 students per class
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