Life at Grammar
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Kokoda: A story of mateship
It’s an early June morning and the Grammar Kokoda contingent of 2017 stand before the Isurava Memorial for a solemn commemorative service. Our historian and guide, Gary Traynor, recounts in exacting detail the battle at Isurava and how it unfolded as over two thousand Japanese advanced along the Track towards Port Moresby. As Gary explains, it was a war conducted at very close range, given the tight confines of the jungle. Read More
New Beginnings
Sydney Grammar School was founded by Act of Parliament in 1854, after Sir Henry Parkes, the Father of Australian Federation, tabled a petition from a group of citizens concerned that the fledgling University of Sydney should have a 'nursery' to provide it with well prepared undergraduates. Read More
Breaking Good
There’s no doubt you’ve heard the news about a group of eight Grammar boys taking on the infamous Martin Shkreli, then-CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, having bought the exclusive US marketing rights to a 64-yearold drug called Daraprim and immediately increasing the price of a single dose from US$13.50 to $750. Read More
Festa ITALIANA!
This year’s biennial Music Festival wasn’t just any ordinary music festival, as Assistant to the Headmaster Rita Fin reports. In collaboration with our extremely enthusiastic Italian teachers Caterina Rupolo and Catherine Angeloni, and Events Manager Tina Demetriou, we worked together to make this a cross-departmental cultural experience and to involve as many boys as possible. Read More
Founded by an Act of Parliament in 1854 Sydney Grammar School was officially opened in 1857.
The modern College Street has around eleven hundred boys, St Ives over four hundred, and Edgecliff three hundred. Our boys now proceed from the School to a variety of Universities in New South Wales and beyond, but the basic purpose of Grammar as set out in the Act – ‘to confer on all classes and denominations of Her Majesty’s subjects resident in the Colony of New South Wales, without any distinction whatsoever, the advantages of a regular and liberal course of education’ – remains the same.
Since its foundation, the School and its old boys (called ‘Old Sydneians’) have played an important part in the history of this country.
Our Locations
The secondary school (7–12) is located in College Street in the city of Sydney.
There are two preparatory schools, one in Paddington (K–Year 6) and one in St Ives (Preschool–Year 6).
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Research the Archives
The School Archives were established in 1981 to facilitate research into the School's history.
Explore our Library
The library is named after AB 'Banjo' Paterson, one of the School's most famous Old Boys (1875-1881). It contains seating for 200 pupils in a variety of areas.
