Matthew Flinders Anglican College is recognised as one of Queensland’s leading academic schools, offering extensive bespoke curriculum and co-curricular programs with exciting opportunities for academic excellence, character development, leadership and community engagement. The College’s vision is to provide its students with a dynamic education and caring community to achieve excellence in learning and life.
Founded in 1990 in Buderim on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, Flinders is an independent co-educational college of more than 1,400 students from Prep to Year 12. The Flinders Early Learning Centre supports 120 families with children through creative and caring Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten programs inspired by the Emilio Reggia experience.
OUR MISSION
Through transformational learning experiences, Flinders students are inspired to achieve academic excellence and nurture their wellbeing while developing a profound sense of humanity. This motivates them to create positive change in the world around them.
ACADEMIC RIGOUR AND PERSONAL BEST
The College fosters a vibrant learning environment that promotes exceptional scholarship and a culture of deep learning and engagement. Students are supported to develop and thrive as learners and leaders, with the ability to gain enterprise and technical skills and build their character and competencies to lead and contribute to making the world a better place.
TOP ACADEMIC RESULTS AND INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Senior assessment results attained each year place Flinders students, both individually and as a cohort, in the highest levels in Queensland. Outstanding results in the Queensland ATAR system and NAPLAN are the outcome of excellent teaching and student endeavour. The Flinders Primary School and Secondary School continue to achieve the top NAPLAN results on the Sunshine Coast. In 2024, Flinders was honoured to be awarded by The Educator a 5-Star Sustainable Program Award for its Flinders Farm program and a 5-Star Innovative School for the third year in a row. Flinders was also named an Excellence Awardee for ‘Innovation in Curriculum Design’ for its Year 9 Year to RISE program at the Australian Education Awards. The College is an Apple Distinguished School and in 2023 was named Australian Primary School of the Year (Non-Government) at the Australian Education Awards.
FLINDERS’ CARING AND ENGAGED COMMUNITY
The Flinders community is caring, connected, inclusive and engaged. Students are actively supported to uphold the College values of Compassion, Courage, Integrity and Respect. Through the Christian character of the Anglican foundation, the College promotes the spiritual and moral development of each student, based on compassion and service. Parents, friends, board members, volunteers and graduates work to support the students and grow the College across the Flinders Parents & Friends, Flinders Foundation, Old Flinderians’ Association alumni network and Round Square global school network.
PERSONALISED AND REAL-WORLD LEARNING AT FLINDERS
Flinders is regularly cited as one of the top schools at local, state and national levels. In 2025, the College introduced two bespoke and rigorous frameworks to guide the Primary and Secondary Schools: the Flinders Teaching and Learning Framework and the Flinders Wellbeing Framework. Informed by evidence-based research, both frameworks aim to meet the explicit needs of students as individuals and to enable them to flourish as they grow through each age and stage of their development, from Prep through to Year 12 graduation.
Students at Flinders embrace the transformational learning experiences offered through the innovative and bespoke Primary School and Secondary School curriculum programs, which are based on design thinking and entrepreneurial pedagogy. These programs prepare students for tertiary study and beyond, empowering them to become problem seekers and solvers who learn through a classroom culture and environment that promotes relationships, autonomy, mastery and purpose.
QUALITY TEACHING
Flinders prides itself on providing quality teaching as one of the cornerstones of effective education. To achieve this, the College builds the capacity and capability of Flinders staff to thrive and lead learning, committed to a genuine environment of care and respect for our students. Teachers are experts in their field, with exceptional depth of knowledge and passion for the subjects they teach.
RICH CO-CURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES
Students at Flinders also achieve highly commendable results and explore their passions through a range of dramatic arts, music, sports and community programs. The College is a member of the Round Square global school network, which gives students the opportunity to participate in student exchange, community service and community engagement programs. Through these exciting experiences, students become more informed and engaged citizens who are attuned to their environment, take responsibility for themselves and their actions
and serve their community.
OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM
The Flinders Outdoor Education Program supports students from Primary to Secondary to develop their character and skills – building resilience, growing as leaders and strengthening their relationships. Opportunities are offered through our Curriculum Camps Program and Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards. Outdoor education also provides our students with a sense of peace and self-efficacy as they connect with the natural world.
QUALITY FACILITIES
Flinders is well-known for its quality facilities. The College’s charming rainforest-fringed campus is set on 22 hectares in Buderim, just 10 minutes’ drive to pristine coastal beaches. Flinders has a state-of-the-art Performance Centre, which includes a multi-purpose 600-seat theatre with professional staging. There is also the newly refurbished music precinct, a drama theatre and cafe which is open to the public and the state-of-the-art Infinity Centre to support design thinking, entrepreneurship and innovation. Sports facilities at Flinders include two superb floodlit sports ovals, an indoor Sports Centre, Fitness Centre and the Flinders Aquatic Centre with 25-metre outdoor pool and learn-to-swim school, among other impressive facilities. Our students access our quality facilities on-site during school hours but also beyond the school day via our extensive co-curricular program.
FLINDERS MASTERPLAN AND MODERN FACILITIES
The Flinders Master Plan is providing agile and modern new learning spaces and facilities with richly integrated technologies. New facilities include the two-storey Infinity Centre for students to work flexibly across a range of disciplines, including Design and Technologies, Visual Art, Digital Technologies and Business. There is also the Flagship Centre for Years 5 and 6 students, the Wonderarium learning centre in the Primary, and a new Junior Primary Nature Playground.
The College is also advancing the second phase of the Flinders Master Plan (2025-2029) to design and complete its Secondary School Science Precinct and Primary School Classrooms for Prep-Year 4. There is also a three-phase rollout of a Sports Precinct and facilities to align with the momentum and opportunities presented by the 2032 Olympics in Southeast Queensland. This state-of-the-art facility will equip students with cutting-edge physical training and recovery resources, fostering enhanced athletic development, improved sporting performance and a lifelong appreciation for health and wellbeing.
The College’s half-hectare Flinders Farm was recently awarded a Sustainable Programs Award by The Educator. The Flinders Farm is for students, staff and families to use as a vibrant, hands-on learning hub and to develop as an enterprise. The farm has citrus orchards, vegetable gardens, productive beehives, ducks and chickens, and Erol the emu who came to the College as a chick more than 20 years ago.
BOOK YOUR TOUR AND APPLY
There is so much to see and enjoy at Matthew Flinders Anglican College. We invite you to join us for our Open Day on Tuesday, 25 March 2025 or for a personalised tour, and discover it for yourself.
To book your place at our Flinders Open Day or a personalised tour or apply to Flinders, please visit our website here or contact our Admissions Team on 907) 5477 3260 or .
CONTACT
WEBSITE: http://www.mfac.edu.au
PHONE: 07 5477 3200
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LOCATION:
1-47 Stringybark Road, Buderim, Queensland, 4556, Australia