Ready For The World
Canberra Grammar School endeavours to shape Curious, Creative, Confident and Compassionate Citizens of the World. This year, we offered the opportunity to a number of students from the Class of 2024 to reflect on their schooling journey. More than just celebrating final scores at year’s end, Canberra Grammar School wishes to celebrate both successes and experiences shared at our School, whether they be academic, co-curricular, or personal growth achieved throughout their time here.
As part of CGS’ 𝑃𝑖 𝐷𝑎𝑦 celebrations, our Year 10 and Year 6 students came together in teams to tackle a host of math-based activities and challenges! Students participated in a scavenger hunt looking for, and measuring, circular objects around the School, then calculating pi based on their measurements. They then enjoyed math-based card games and board games, as well as some math-based art. It was a wonderful opportunity to bring our Primary and Senior students together and learn about pi in a fun and engaging way, while also providing a valuable mentoring opportunity to our older students. ... See MoreSee Less
Congratulations to Year 5 student Philippa! Philippa was selected for three ACT teams last year: hockey, swimming, and track and field, and was awarded the 12&U All-Rounder award from School Sport ACT this past week in recognition of her accomplishments. ... See MoreSee Less
Our Year 8 students participated in ‘Smashed’ last week, an engaging and thought-provoking workshop designed to explore the topic of risk-taking behaviours, with a particular focus on underage drinking.
This workshop forms part of our Wellbeing programme, which aims to support students in developing their social and emotional capabilities by helping them understand real-life situations where these skills are required to make informed and responsible choices.
A big thank you to Smashed Australia for sharing their expertise and engaging our students in such an important conversation. ... See MoreSee Less
As part of Year 2’s Who We Are Unit of Inquiry, students took part in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 2 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐸𝑔𝑔𝑠-𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡! Students were tasked with caring for a hard-boiled “Egg Baby” for a whole day. The challenge was to keep their Egg Baby safe while still participating in all learning, break times and activities. Throughout the experiment, students were encouraged to demonstrate the Learner Profile Attributes of being caring, balanced and principled. It was a fun experience for students, learning and reflecting upon their responsible choices ... See MoreSee Less