Co-education enables young people, both male and female, to live and learn together in an environment of mutual respect and understanding. When they work together in the classroom, our male and female students can learn from each other intellectually and socially, and experience broadened opportunities to explore topics through gendered perspectives.
In the twenty-first century, inclusion and equality are the benchmarks of a healthy workplace. Students who have been educated in a co-educational environment and within a boarding community such as ours, leave our School as confident and resilient young adults, strengthened in their capacity to develop meaningful relationships and well prepared for life beyond school.
Many of our boarding families live great distances from our School, and desire for their children to live, learn and be well together. Having one school that their children, sons and daughters, can call their own is crucial.
This strong sense of family continuity and connectedness enriches our entire school community, as well as benefiting the experience for siblings, to have the support of a brother or sister boarding alongside them.
One of the greatest features of the educational experience at Geelong Grammar School is for the opportunity to form meaningful and lasting relationships with friends from all parts of Australia, indeed the world. Learning and living in a co-educational context allows healthy friendships to flourish in a natural setting, building a wider, more diverse network of friends of both sexes, and fostering an enduring network of friendship and support.