Canberra Girls' Grammar School Junior School is a Waste Wise School
The Junior School at Canberra Girls’ Grammar School comprises a busy, enthusiastic learning environment. The School is dedicated to providing a quality education for students from 3 – 12 years. As educators we are also committed to the pastoral needs of our entire student body, and to fostering an environment where all students feel supported and encouraged in working towards their personal potential.
| We are cognisant of the needs of students at different ages and stages of their learning and development. Our purpose built Early Learning Centre (ELC) is a wonderful environment in which boys and girls, learn in their pre-school years. Influenced by the philosophy of Reggio Emilia, students are immersed in a play-based curriculum which nurtures a love of learning and positive self esteem. Emerging literacy and numeracy is fostered and the children’s development is carefully guided, along with each child’s curiosity and interests. |
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There is a natural progression from the ELC experience as boys and girls move to our Junior Primary Years, where there is a commitment and focus given to establishment and mastery of the foundation skills in literacy and numeracy and to an expansion of the offerings in specialist classes and co-curricular opportunities.
From Year 3, girls learn in an environment that specialises in the education of girls and where risk taking is supported and there is opportunity to excel. It is in the primary years that the students begin to see that strong positive role models are apparent, where higher order thinking skills are taught and where leadership is encouraged and readily available.
Our students, from those in the Early Learning Centre to our leaders in Year 6, have a strong sense of their place in the School. Each stage of schooling is distinctive reflecting the age and stage of development of its cohort, yet the boundaries are blurred. From the Early Learning Centre, where it all begins, moving through the Junior Primary Years to the Primary Years culminating at our leadership group in Year 6. At every level there is a sense of looking forward, and yet an appreciation of what has gone before. For our senior students completing Year 12 at our Senior School, their hopes and dreams for the future mingle with nostalgic memories of their early years in the Junior School.
For students the sense of belonging and connectedness to school is a critical one. It is one of the major factors that indicate the health of a school and the wellbeing of its students. By building relationships with students in earlier and later years, one also builds a sense of one’s importance in the School community. Every student is aware that there will be someone looking out for each of them, just as one needs also to watch out for others.
We invite you to visit our Junior School. Talk to our students and our staff and look at our purpose built facilities. It is then that you will gain a sense of our community and how we at CGGS care for each other. It is then that you can hear about the breadth of our curriculum and the many and varied opportunities in which our students engage.
Heather Ablett
Head of Junior School
