Music

from 2022 Grammarian

by Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School

50 Year Event

FROM THE ARCHIVES

The School we now know as ‘BCGS’ began with a meeting in 1967 and soon became what was known as the Bunbury Cathedral Grammar Schools project.

Looking back through the Archives, an interested searcher will learn that this first meeting of citizens from in and around Bunbury, together with the Bishop of Bunbury, was a community gathering. In the years that followed, leading up to our School’s Opening Day in 1972, more and more people in the South West community became involved with bringing Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School to fruition.

This history has long continued throughout the last 50 years, with parents, teachers, students, grandparents and relatives of all kinds, members of the South West community, and friends of the School contributing with enthusiasm to School-Related Groups like the Parents and Friends’ Society (now Association), the Ladies Auxiliary, the Former Students’ Association – now the Old Grammarians’ Association – and the Grammar Foundation.

Long-held traditions of the past 50 years have brought this enthusiasm together for events such as School Fetes, Arts Events and Fundraising, only part of the vibrant community activities within and around our School.

When Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School opened in 1972, it was Australia’s first Independent Co-educational Primary and Secondary Day and Boarding School, an amazing innovation for its era. The innovation was a success and was the first of many that the School held as part of its ethos. The innovation of ‘cottage-style’ boarding in the 1980s, the early adoption of new technologies at all stages of our history, our successful programs of International student exchange beginning in the 1970s, and the School’s implementation of unique and effective teaching methodologies, are only some of our 50 years of transformative growth and development. As we celebrate our 50th year at Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School, we can look back on all we have achieved with admiration, and look forward to the future with confidence and excitement.