Our students
The bits of school that happen between the lessons
Who your child sits with at lunch, whether anyone notices when they are on their own, and whether they get to lead something. These are not extras.
Student leadership
Real responsibility, not badges
School Captains, House Captains and student leaders across the school take on genuine jobs — running assemblies, representing the school to visitors, speaking for their peers in decisions that affect them, and showing prospective families around alongside the principal.
It is a demanding thing to give a twelve-year-old, and it is the point. Students leave here having stood up in front of a room and been listened to.
Buddies
A familiar older face in a very big yard
Every Foundation student is paired with a senior student. It is the smallest structural thing this school does, and families name it more often than anything else.
For the Foundation child
Someone who knows their name from week one, finds them at recess, and can be looked for when the yard feels enormous.
For the senior student
A genuine leadership apprenticeship — being depended on by a five-year-old changes how a twelve-year-old carries themselves.
For you
The knowledge that on your child’s first day there is already one person in the school whose job it is to look out for them.
Lunchtime clubs
Somewhere to belong at half past twelve
Not every child wants to run the oval at lunchtime, and the ones who do not can have a very long forty-five minutes. Lunchtime clubs give them somewhere to be — building, drawing, reading, playing a board game, or working on something with people who like the same thing.
Clubs are led by student interest and run by staff, and they change across the year. Every child has somewhere they fit at lunchtime, which is not a small thing.
Also in the yard
- Staff on yard duty in high-vis, visible from anywhere
- Buddies finding their Foundation buddy at recess
- Restorative conversations on the spot, not three days later
- Shade, gum trees and a synthetic oval that works in winter
Cyber safety
Taught, because the device is already in the house
Cyber safety is explicitly taught alongside the 1:1 iPad program — what to share and what not to, what to do when something makes you uncomfortable, and why the adult in the room needs to know about it. Students learn the habits at school so they carry them to the screens we do not supervise.
About the 1:1 iPad programAttendance
Every day counts, and it compounds
A day here and there adds up faster than most families expect — a day a fortnight is four weeks of school across a year. If your child is going to be away, let the office know. If attendance is becoming difficult for any reason, tell us early; we would far rather help than follow up.