09 May 2024
The digital version of our Autumn 2024 SGS Magazine is now available.
15 Dec 2023
The young men of Grammar’s 2023 cohort have achieved excellent HSC results.
16 Aug 2023
It is a pillar of the School’s strategic aims to ensure that we engage the wider community of Grammar so far as possible in the post-COVID era. Under the direction of our Director of Community Ms Sharon Ditmarsch, great things are now happening.
01 Jun 2023
Since retiring from her position as Headmaster of St Ives, Mrs Rowena Lee has continued to share her passion for books and reading with teachers, parents and students.
30 Mar 2023
St Ives boys had an exhilarating 25 minutes of hiding from the Year 6 Cowper boys and there were many excited and sweaty boys that returned to the classroom after the event!
30 Mar 2023
St Ives Drama master Melanie Wheatley recounts the resounding success of this ambitious interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
30 Mar 2023
Nicholas Wu (Year 6) reports on the St Ives Football Tour to the Central Coast and Tamworth where they encountered some strong local teams.
24 Mar 2023
The St Ives Preparatory relay teams enjoyed an outstanding athletics season, with both the Junior and Senior teams performing exceptionally well in 2022.
17 Jan 2023
Our dear teacher, jazz musician and friend Mr Vladimir Khusid sadly passed away after his long and terribly stoic battle with cancer.
23 Aug 2022
Year 6 St Ives boy Harvey Todd is commended for his efforts this Athletics season.
23 Aug 2022
The energy was high for our final game of senior rugby this season against Tudor House as Mr Audas led us onto the field for his last game coaching Grammar rugby after 34 years.
22 Jun 2022
Such was the excitement this week for the Grand Final of our ‘Chase the Lion’ Book Trivia Competition. Boys were literally jumping out of their skins! It is a hotly-contested annual event.
02 Jun 2022
After a term and a half of discussing characters, practising movements, learning lines and rehearsing scenes, the Year 6 boys presented Pirates Ahoy!
02 Jun 2022
Congratulations St Ives Preparatory 4x50m Freestyle Senior Relay Team!
31 Mar 2022
St Ives Prep had a fantastic day at the CIS Swimming Carnival yesterday. Five boys further qualified for the State Carnival, the largest number that St Ives will send to the State Carnival in a long time. Our congratulations to these formidable swimmers for their consistent and impressive effort in the pool.
31 Mar 2022
St Ives Preparatory offers a unique five-day Preschool programme for deeply curious boys who are driven by special interest and a thirst for understanding.
16 Mar 2022
Outstanding efforts were shown by our boys at the IPSHA Swimming Carnival this week.
03 Mar 2022
Around the world, mathematicians (and of course we here at SGS) got excited about the line-up of twos that was Tuesday 22nd February 2022, with every class and grade incorporating activities that had something to do with ‘two’.
25 Feb 2022
News Flash! Mrs Scott’s Sci-Fi club is back! Sci-Fi Club (short for Science Find-out) has been designed for Year 2 boys who love their science explorations and need more time to explore, imagine, invent and create.
21 Feb 2022
These little boys have just played their first ever game of Cricket, and they won! Well done to our U9s and to all boys challenging themselves on the sporting fields.
17 Feb 2022
Introducing "Leo Invictus", our unofficial School Song, composed to reflect the five values found in Carrington’s Code: Respect, Courage, Integrity, Empathy and Initiative.
17 Feb 2022
A sublime Maffey Strings performance of the Concerto Grosso in D Op. 6, No. 1 (Largo & Allegro) by Arcangelo Corelli recorded for Presentation Day 2021. Conducted by Mr AB Vickers, with soloists Jack De Ravin, Michael Hu and Joshua Yun.
17 Feb 2022
We farewell our outgoing Director of Music, Mr Martin Smith, after his extraordinary tenure (2002 – 2021).
11 Feb 2022
With much excitement, we celebrate the start of a new school year, warmly welcoming the boys into our two Kindergarten classes at St Ives Prep.
09 Feb 2022
Oh, yes please! Some of our boys just LOVE Maths, so not surprisingly, they formed a Maths Club.
09 Feb 2022
A new extra-curricular club was formed for the boys in Kindergarten to Year 2. VATE, an acronym for Vocabulary, Art, Technology and Engineering, offered our boys a broad scope of enriching explorations.
09 Feb 2022
From a very early age, children are curious and inquisitive learners – seeking to understand and question the world around them. Therefore, it is fitting that inquiry-based learning is an integral part of the boys’ education when they commence at St Ives Preparatory.
04 Feb 2022
There are many elements of chess that appeal to Grammar boys. The game is strategic, open-ended, competitive, and underpinned by logic.
24 Aug 2021
On Friday 13th August, St Ives boys enjoyed a Screen Free day of learning.
20 Aug 2021
Social and emotional development is at the heart of the Kindergarten programme at St Ives Preparatory. Our aim is for boys to be confident, happy, and socially connected.
06 Aug 2021
In Term I, Director of Music at St Ives, Martin Smith OAM, organised a new initiative for the boys.
06 Aug 2021
Director of Studies, Mrs Clare Greenup, brings us up to date on St Ives Preparatory’s very own Reading Challenge.
06 Aug 2021
Mr Matthew Crerar reports on an innovative leadership programme that is helping to shape boys’ characters through practical service to others.
17 Jun 2021
Here’s a little reminder of the joy and enthusiasm that was on display.
21 May 2021
Building, testing, and racing billy carts presented our Year 5 boys with an exhilarating opportunity to take on Earth’s natural forces and each other!
21 May 2021
Grammar boys are readers; you can find them anywhere and everywhere engrossed in a book! It should therefore come as no surprise that they just love spending time in the Library. It is indeed a ‘happy place’ for many of our of boys at St Ives.
17 May 2021
Our School Code, Carrington’s Code, provides a strong moral platform for the School.
11 May 2021
Year 6 boy, Monte Cairns, represented the NSW Combined Independent Schools (CIS) Sports Council at the NSW Primary Schools Sports Association AFL Championships held in Polding, Byron Bay in early May.
11 May 2021
On Saturday 1 May, Cowper Field was host to 700 players in the U10 and U12 Sevens Rugby Competition.
02 Feb 2021
St Ives’ major production was to have been Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical, ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’.
02 Feb 2021
Our Year 6 boys have been tinkering as they have been learning how to craft wood with their hands, in a new workshop, which was a gift of the Parents’ Association.
24 Nov 2020
The Night of the Notables Project is a complex, multi-layered unit which acts as a fabulous culmination of the boys’ Primary years.
20 Nov 2020
Last week, boys in Years 4 & 6 enjoyed a day out at the beach, participating in the Surf School at Long Reef.
13 Nov 2020
Outdoor Classroom Day is a global initiative that we, here at Sydney Grammar School, have enthusiastically taken on for the last two years.
02 Nov 2020
St Ives boys celebrated Book Week with a busy few days of activities and talks, culminating with the annual Book Week Parade.
30 Oct 2020
The boys and teachers have been mesmerised watching two mural artists create an enormous painting of Carrington the Lion as it unfolded across metres of brick wall over the past week.
29 Oct 2020
Year 6 enjoyed the final few days of Term 3 with an in-school camp.
29 Oct 2020
Year 5's Goldfields Learning Celebration was the culmination of their study of 19th Century Australia and, in particular, the discovery of gold and how that shaped our country.
29 Oct 2020
Over the past three weeks, Year 4 have been working hard on their inquiry project. This project ties in closely with our Geography Unit Sustaining Our World, where we identified unsustainable practices in the 21st Century.
27 Oct 2020
During Term 3, Year 2 have been busy planning and constructing a Games Arcade, made predominantly from cardboard and recycled materials. This work formed part of the Science topic of ‘Push and Pull’, culminating one Friday when their Games Arcade opened for business!
16 Oct 2020
Preschool - Year 2 Director & Science Teacher, Mrs Michele Scott shares an exciting way that our Youngest SGS Scientists are getting ready for the future at St Ives Preparatory School.
25 Sep 2020
After many years of observing boys naturally gravitating towards digging, fossicking, climbing and collecting, an inspiring natural playground was constructed for the boys of Sydney Grammar School St Ives Preparatory.
23 Sep 2020
During the weeks when Grammar boys were undertaking lessons online, St Ives Art master, Mr Andrew Cranna conducted a daily series of Art lessons entitled the Drawing ‘BOOM’ Challenges.
23 Sep 2020
What began as a one year appointment in 1983 became a wonderful 32 years of teaching.
23 Sep 2020
Sportsmaster, Mr Brett Townley-Jones, reports on all the action from this year’s Swimming and Cross Country carnivals.