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Discover a 100-year spirit of educational excellence, connection and opportunity. Canberra Girls Grammar School was built on a foundation of determination, resilience and visionary thinking. In 1926, at the request of Bishop Lewis Bost….
Now, almost 100 years later, St Gabriel's is known as Canberra Girls Grammar School. The school building where the Foundation stone was laid is now the Boarding House, one part of two state-of-the-art campuses in Deakin. The student population has risen from tens to over 1,300.
- What Changed in 1944
- Access Did Not Get Fairer
- Why It Did Not Boost Social Mobility
The 1944 Act was the culmination of long-term aspirations of Boards of Education in England and Wales to open secondary educational opportunities to all social classes on equal terms. For decades prior to 1944, grammar schools had already formed an important part of secondary education, but there were significant structural impediments to achieving...
Our research examined whether or not the 1944 Act made a difference to children who would have been disadvantaged in the earlier era because their parents would be unlikely to be able to pay the required secondary school fees. We compared the chances of gaining a grammar school place among boys and girls with managerial or professional fathers comp...
Leading observersin the 1950s noted that poorer working class families were worried that their children would have to forego earnings if they remained longer in secondary education. They were also worried about inadequate maintenance grants. Also, some families did not want their children to enter the sort of occupations typically linked to grammar...
CGS grew from its humble beginnings as Cooma’s Manaro Grammar School at the start of the 20th Century before transferring to the vast sheep paddocks of early Canberra. It was a far cry from the bustling capital city of today.
Canberra Girls Grammar School (CGGS) is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, located in Deakin, a suburb of Canberra, the capital of Australia.
The CGGS Archives were established in 1987 to serve the history and research needs of Canberra's oldest independent school. The Archives see the assembly and preservation of records relating to the School and its associated bodies.
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Canberra Girls Grammar School (CGGS) is an independent non-selective Anglican school with its origins in the 1920s and a current enrolment of approximately 1 600 students. Spread over two campuses, the school is co-educational from Early Learning to Year 2 and girls only from Years 3 to 12.
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