I am excited to launch the new St John’s Grammar School Strategic Plan (2023-2027). This five-year plan focusses on sustaining the strengths of our school as well as embracing new opportunities. It is progressive by design and aims to ensure our young people are well...
I recently attended a keynote address from David De Carvalho, CEO of Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), who used the ‘castle invasion’ scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to characterise the typical human response to impending...
What is different about the world our current teenagers are growing up in, compared to the one you did? This was the question posed by The Rite Journey leader, Ben Squire, to Year 9 students and their families on a recent balmy Australian evening amongst the gum trees...
St John’s is a growing school and is fast reaching its target enrolment number. This rapid growth over the past 5 years has brought with it positive and optimistic outcomes but at the same time for our families who invested some time ago in a smaller school, it no...
It’s probably an ambitious call to write an article with this title at this particular stage of Term 4 with student reports just around the corner. That said, there might possibly be no better time to give some air to a discussion about the purpose of ‘reporting’ in a...
St John’s Grammar has a long and proud history of being an Anglican school. Faith has been central to the School’s identity over the last 64 years as it has grown from a small parish primary school to such a well-regarded ELC – Year 12 Grammar School. Last week...
