Georges River Grammar
Template:Pp-pc1 Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox school/short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
The Georges River Grammar (abbreviated as GRG) is an independent Anglican co-educational primary and secondary day school, located in Georges Hall, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school was established in 1984, as a non-selective school and currently caters for approximately 880 students from Kindergarten to Year 12.[1]
History
Georges River Grammar was founded in 1984, initially as a primary school based at St Paul's Anglican Church in Bankstown. In 1986, a secondary school, Bankstown Grammar School was commenced as a joint venture of the Anglican and Uniting churches in Bankstown. In 1988, the Uniting Church withdrew from the partnership and the Bankstown Grammar School became an independent, coeducational, Anglican school.[2][3] The name of the school was officially changed in early 2011 from Bankstown Grammar School to Georges River Grammar to reflect the reality that it draws broadly from the Georges River area, and that the school had outgrown its local name and drawing area of Bankstown.[4] It also reflected a unified identity after the amalgamation of St Paul's Choir School and Bankstown Grammar School in 2004.[5]
According to researchers, the school's outgrowing of its local area is a pattern common with religious and other independent schools in Australia, as growing enrolment in Australian non-government schools confirm that parental desire to provide the ‘best’ schooling for their children will often override factors such as the school location.[4]
The school currently has four houses – Wood, Jackson, Rossiter and Chamberlain – named for the founders of the school. Previously, it had six – Wood, Jackson, Rossiter, Chamberlain, Broughton and Barker.
In the mid-1990s, the school participated in a psychological research study conducted on the topic of self-concept. 395 students participated in the research.[6][7][8]
In 2009, the school campaigned to discourage unhealthy food and drinks, banning a number of items from school lunch boxes, and hiring a dietician to speak to parents.[9]
Notable alumni
- Avani Dias, ABC journalist[10]
Affiliation
The school is a member of the Sydney Anglican Schools Ministry Association.[11]
See also
<templatestyles src="Stack/styles.css"/>
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Bugg, Laura, and Nicole Gurran. "Urban planning process and discourses in the refusal of Islamic Schools in Sydney, Australia." Australian planner 48, no. 4 (2011): 281-291.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Marsh, H. (1994). The Importance of Being Important: Theoretical Models of Relations between Specific and Global Components of Physical Self-Concept. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 16(3), 306-325.
- ↑ Marsh, Herbert W., Garry E. Richards, Steven Johnson, Lawrence Roche, and Patsy Tremayne. "Physical Self-Description Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and a multitrait-multimethod analysis of relations to existing instruments." Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 16, no. 3 (1994): 270-305.
- ↑ Marsh, Herbert W. "Physical Self Description Questionnaire: stability and discriminant validity." Research quarterly for exercise and sport 67, no. 3 (1996): 249-264.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Navbox".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with reference errors
- Pages using infobox school with the module parameter
- Anglican secondary schools in Sydney
- Anglican primary schools in Sydney
- Educational institutions established in 1986
- Defunct Uniting Church schools in Australia
- 1986 establishments in Australia
- Grammar schools in Australia
- Anglican Diocese of Sydney
- Georges Hall, New South Wales