It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to The Rockhampton Grammar School website. I hope that you enjoy our website and discover a community that is caring, supportive, challenging and relevant, whilst also being respectful of the School’s history, values and traditions.
The Rockhampton Grammar School is a non-denominational co-educational school of 1350 students, catering for students from early childhood to Year 12. The School consists of a well resourced city campus, an Early Learning Centre, an aquatic centre on the Fitzroy River and an Outdoor Education Centre located 4 kilometres north of Emu Park on the Keppel Coast. It is the largest regional co-educational boarding school in Australia with accommodation for up to 360 students. RGS is structured into four separate schools (Early Learning Centre, Primary, Middle and Senior), each led by a Head of School. Student numbers are kept at a level that is large enough to support a diverse and rich curriculum, but small enough to provide proper care and attention for every girl and boy.
Our motto 'Macte Virtute Et Litteris' (Grow in character and scholarship) captures not only our expectation that every student will seek to do their very best in all that they undertake, but also the School’s commitment to the learning and development of each student. Grammar’s teaching and learning programmes are child centred and promote the deliberate development of higher order thinking processes, intelligent behaviours and actions, and a dedication to learning throughout life. Our teachers are committed to working with their students to help them achieve to the highest standard in all of their endeavours, and through partnerships with parents, we strive to make each student’s dream a reality.
At Grammar, we offer academic programmes that are challenging across all grades, and which provide a number of different pathways (OP and non-OP) that can be travelled together or separately through an innovative timetable. In addition, the School offers all our students the types of programmes that develop them both intellectually and socially as contributing members of a global society. Our co-curricular programme is balanced, providing sporting and cultural activities with local and overseas schools, as well as opportunities to contribute to the community through service projects.
While our campuses provide outstanding facilities for our students, it is the unique feeling that you get once inside the School, and the actions and behaviours of our students that set us apart from other schools. I invite you to visit the school during any school day after making an appointment with our Registrar, Debra Sullivan on 0749 360700 or Email: registrar@rgs.qld.edu.au
Phillip Moulds, Headmaster
