Whoever said libraries are boring hasn’t been to the Senior School Library at lunchtime. Head to the Yates Room and you might stumble upon a Lego Ferrari or Ferris Wheel, […]

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Patrick Sanders, Head of the SS Science Faculty, has been nominated as one of 30 Rising Stars across Australia by The Educator magazine. Rising Stars are young up-and-coming leaders in […]

Congratulations to our Year 6 2016 Relay for Life team, who ran overnight last year (in the rain!) to raise more than $15,000 for cancer research. As a result, a […]

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Four Year 6 Art Monitors are working with boys in Years 2, 3 and 5 in the Juniors School Art Club this term. The boys have made striking clay poppies, […]

Apparently, Bill Gates did not give his children a phone until they were 14. This prompted me to perform some basic research that indicates the average age that children get […]

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Year 7 boys on the Middle school stairs in casual conversation

Friendships are a central part of our daily lives and I am always delighted to observe the connections that form as boys progress through the Middle School together. These associations […]

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Congratulations to Julian Ou (Year 12) and Sasha Parsons (Year 12), who were recently presented with Premier’s VCE Awards for their outstanding academic results in 2016. Julian received a Study Award for excellence in […]

The first questions everyone asked me when I got back from my 10-day voyage on the Young Endeavour were ‘Were you sick?’ and ‘Were you scared?’ Well, everyone was sick […]

The Generations in Jazz Festival, held annually in Mount Gambier, is billed as ‘the ultimate three-day jam session for several thousand artists at varying stages of their musical journey’. It […]

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Last week we supported Brain Week in honour of the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, a cause close to the hearts of everyone in the BGS community. On Thursday, our Senior and Middle School […]