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BUILDING CHARACTER THROUGH L E A D E R S H I P, M E N T O R I N G A N D S P O R T Our Year 12 School Captains made outstanding speeches on Founders’ Day and their words seem particularly poignant. Well done and welcome to your leadership roles, Parker and Stephanie!
STEPHANIE HANCOCK Ballarat and Queen’s Anglican Grammar School is a place where children come to be educated and grow into valued members of the community. This is the basic premise of schooling. However, here at Grammar, this foundation has been built upon so solidly that the School has become, for me, much more than the simple learning environment. It has become somewhere to question my thoughts, seek out new challenges and, most importantly, have some fun with the people who make me happy. It has become a community of which I feel privileged to be part. I am sure that when the original girls’ school, Queen’s, was first founded in 1876, no one expected it to grow to be purchased by the
Ballarat Diocese, amalgamate with the Boys’ School and become the School that it is today. Queen’s is represented in the Crest on our blazers, the Houses Krome, Cuthbert, Manifold Larritt, Hayhoe and Woodbridge, and the Queen’s Wing. The Boys’ School and Queen’s are the starting place from which we have grown. And although all this time has gone by, truthfully a whole lot hasn’t changed. If you were teleported back to the early 1900s, it is likely that the adjustments you would find would be to the hairstyles and fashions, not the sense of community or the essence of the Schools. The Grammar spirit would be just as strong as it is today. When I think of Grammar I am immediately taken back to huddling around a heater in one of the Cleaver rooms during winter, or
