Canberra Girls Grammar School
School in Canberra

Our school builds positive relationships with students and their families to ensure a secure educational experience that is based on support, openness and trust. We value our powerful co curricular program and the myriad opportunities cogs students have, to encourage the best in every child. Students need to learn a core of knowledge that will provide the common understandings and language needed to be capable to work with others in a variety of contexts and thrive the research and analytical skills to find and use information when it is required. We aim for the superior quality possible in terms of teaching and learning, pastoral care, range of opportunities and the School’s physical environment. During any given week, there is a range of Chapel services for students, staff and the School community to engage in. As portion of the school’s continuing commitment to education, cogs provides an extensive professional development program to ensure the teachers at the school are teaching students based on the latest teaching research. She has extensive experience as a classroom teacher from preschool to Year 6 both in the UK and at cogs. The Senior Team at the School, led by the Principal, works closely with the Board to plan our strategy for the future. Canberra Girls Grammar School (cogs) employs approximately 250 full time, portion time and casual staff comprising teachers and support staff including teaching assistants, administrative staff, Boarding House staff, nurses and ground maintenance staff. cogs encourage staff are integral and highly respected members of the cogs community. They support, foster and empower others to accomplish the superior in education of cogs students. We aim to seduce the superior staff in order to provide a expansive range of opportunities for our students. Library sessions focus on developing information literacy skills and are planned collaboratively with class teachers as a partnership in the teaching and learning of the Units of Inquiry involved in the Primary Years Progamme. The library houses a range of technologies for research, communication and presentation purposes. The Senior School library provides a range of information services including: Canberra Girls Grammar School (cogs) Early Learning center (EC) provides our youngest students with a welcoming, nurturing and safe environment, which is designed to face their needs and provide them with time, space and opportunities to explore the world and discover their unique store within it. PrePrep is the second year offered in the EC, providing an educational program for children who are four to five years old. We trust that young children must feel safe, secure, respected and supported in their learning environment. We believe polite and appropriate communication with children is of particular importance. We value the important role that family plays in the life of each child. We trust that relationships are fundamental to the healthy being of our staff, students and families. Staff within the School thrive professional relationships to encourage the best interests of each child. We believe that the environment is the third teacher. We value the opportunity we have to be a definite influence on young children’s well being, development and education, and embrace the opportunity to urge parents carers in the care and education of their children.

Housed in the used St John’s Rectory (plebe House), the Anglican Community of the Sisters of the Church had answered a request from Bishop Redford of the then Diocese of Goulburn, who saw a need for such a school in the small community designated as the fresh federal capital. It was no accident that this was impartial one day earlier the opening of Parliament House by the Duke and Duchess of York, when good dignitaries were in town. The School came close to shutting down due to mishap in the rural community which supplied much of its enrollment. However, it was rescued by the determination of Canon Robertson, and later by a dedicated group of parents and friends, who took the dramatic step of purchasing the School from the Sisters in 1935. Shops stopped trading after the announcement of peace and workers and school children carried flags and sprigs of the blooming bush land wattle through the streets. The acceleration of Canberra’s development saw the expansion of suburbs and all their associated services. These were also years of growth in education, and the Girls' Grammar School shared in the expansion of schools, both government and private, to face the enrollment demands for the generation of baby boomers. In 2004, the School opened its Hasty Learning center for three and fouryearolds and it now caters for 1,600 students across its senior and junior campuses. A fresh threestorey classroom block was completed for the start of the 2011 school year. In 2012, the magnificent, award winning Science Wing at the Senior School was opened. The cogs Archives were establis