The visuals throughout are from a stunning mobile created by the children in the CGGS Early Learning Centre for Founders’ Day 2025. The artwork represents our school value, Inclusion. Each individual strand of beads represents the unique talents and gifts of each member of the CGGS community. When woven together the strands are a collective expression of community, belonging and joy.
A 100-year legacy of creating a world where the young never stop believing anything is possible.
For a century, generations of students from across the globe have experienced an expansive, holistic education at Canberra Girls Grammar School (CGGS).
Founded in 1926 by the Anglican Community of the Sisters of the Church, trail-blazing women, whose spirit of fearless leadership, lived faith, visionary thinking, unwavering resilience and a deep passion for learning lives on.
CGGS is an award-winning, independent school, with a reputation for excellence in academic outcomes, consistently resulting in exemplary NAPLAN, BSSS and IBDP scores. The School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School and Canberra’s first and only continuum school, offering the Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP) across Kindergarten to Year 12, with a choice between the ACT BSSS and IB Diploma as the graduating credential.
From the heart of the nation’s capital and spanning three campuses, CGGS provides a world-class educational and co-curricular offering. The School is co-educational from Early Learning to Year 3, then female-focused through to Year 12. CGGS boarders live onsite at the Senior campus in our historic Boarding House, enriching and further diversifying our community.
CGGS values the whole child—all are encouraged to be involved in a range of pursuits in, and beyond the classroom. Students have many opportunities to nurture existing talents, discover new interests and develop their skills to become well-rounded, informed and contributing young people.
At CGGS, students exceed even their own expectations.
Our PURPOSE
CGGS exists to graduate fiercely independent young women, confident in their purpose, courageous in their choices, ethical in their actions and capable of shaping a hope-filled future.
Our students face an increasingly uncertain and complex world with the unrelenting, rapid pace of change in all facets of life. The evolving, contemporary context requires our young women to be adaptive, resilient and confident in their human capacity to learn, re-learn and un-learn for the future they will co-create.
Keeping hope high for a better world is at the heart of our approaches to teaching, learning and caring. As we crest our first century, our obligations to our current community and the generations that will follow are deeply considered and deliberate.
We appreciate the importance of knowing our students and staff well to ensure all are safe, seen and supported to flourish. Our direction is purposeful, people-focused and place-based so that all are prepared and poised to ignite their possible.
The School is committed to a rigorous education that will prepare students to be the curious, skilled, determined thinkers and problem-solvers the world needs.
With the Brindabella Ranges as our backdrop, and the Anglican faith as our foundation, we move forward, towards a hope-filled horizon.
Learning at CGGS is purposeful, holistic, rigorous and engaging with a focus on personal excellence and meaningful contribution.
Our students, staff, parents and carers co-create a community of care and accountability where the values of CGGS are visible and lived, and all can grow and thrive.
The spaces where we live and learn and the experiences they enable will elevate, energise and empower deep learning, active participation and thoughtful reflection.
Preparedness for the future requires bold, collaborative action, informed by diverse perspectives, and enacted with imagination, creativity and disciplined planning.
Learning at CGGS is purposeful, holistic, rigorous and engaging with a focus on personal excellence and meaningful contribution
Refine our approaches to teaching and learning to ensure we enact a coherent program of experiences that provides strong foundations and space to stretch and grow.
Design and implement intentional, evidence-based interventions to ensure students are met where they are in their learning and progress towards greater competence and independence.
Create a scoped and ageappropriate ethical framework to foster critical and creative thinking and to inform principled action and service to the community.
Develop a CGGS Learner Profile and Portfolio that showcases students’ individual strengths and supports their agency to reflect on and document their developing skills, learner attributes academic achievements and co-curricular interests.
Our students, staff, parents and carers co-create a community of care and accountability where the values of CGGS are visible and lived, and all can grow and thrive
Prioritise health and wellness for the thriving of all students and staff through the development of a whole-school approach to flourishing—mind, body and spirit.
Connect our staff across campuses with collegial collaboration, quality professional learning, action research and streamlined processes to consolidate our one-school approach, ensuring a consistently excellent standard of teaching, learning and caring.
Strengthen the home-school partnership with experiences and communications that equip and inspire our families to support their child and young people.
Engage our alumnae in the life of the School with outreach, events and curated opportunities to connect with each other and to enrich student learning with their professional knowledge, skills and personal stories.
The spaces where we live and learn and the experiences they enable will elevate, energise and empower deep learning, active participation and thoughtful reflection
Develop a framework of principles for effective governance, environmental stewardship and sustainable development with actionable targets and measures.
Celebrate the School’s place in the ACT and Australia and continue to contribute to the community of which we are an integral and enduring part.
Connect CGGS to the world with global experiences that position students and staff as culturally literate, internationally minded and service-oriented contributors.
Ensure our facilities are fit for purpose and regularly reviewed with an evaluative process that underpins an ambitious and futurefocused master plan.
Preparedness for the future requires bold, collaborative action, informed by diverse perspectives, and enacted with imagination, creativity and disciplined planning
Invite and embrace the sharing of diverse views and experiences, empower the voices of our children and young people and engage them in the decisions that affect them.
Explore opportunities with tertiary and cultural institutions, as well as industry, to build an educational ecosystem that supports academic and experiential learning and adds value to the research base that will inform next generation educational practice.
Optimise the responsible use of technology by maintaining a secure, reliable and user-friendly IT environment that facilitates actionable data, ethical use of AI and ICT systems that serve the School’s educational and operational needs.
Deliver strategic financial management that balances future investment and long-term sustainability with our goals for educational excellence for all students in the here and now.
We acknowledge the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples as the traditional keepers of the land on which we gather.
We are inspired by their wisdom, spirituality and experience.
We particularly acknowledge the wise Indigenous women who have shared language, country and culture. We commit ourselves to actively work alongside them for reconciliation and justice.
