Australian Country

tuning in to school life

anberra Grammar School (CGS) staff and students are marching to the beat of their own drum. Up until just four years ago, CGS was an all-boys school. Today, 44 per cent of its 2200 students from Primary to Year 12 are female. “We were very consciously wanting to recognise that our job is to prepare students for a dynamic and rapidly changing world,” head of school, Justin Garrick, says. “When our school was established 93 years ago, men and women were destined for different life experiences and that’s just not the case anymore.” And now, the school is undergoing another transformation, the development of a

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