INSPIRATION CENTRAL

Churchie has upgraded its boarding facilities with inviting new spaces to inspire boys to reach their full potential.

CHURCHIE HAS REDEFINED the boarding experience, with fully refurbished accommodation designed to enhance the school’s boarding program and help boys become accomplished young men. Alongside our health centre and new dining room, situated on the largest inner-city school campus in Brisbane, Churchie boarding truly is an experience like no other, where boys are fully immersed and supported in their development.

Churchie’s Gerald and Goodwin boarding houses now feature enhanced privacy with full-size individual rooms for every boy, including larger rooms with king single beds for senior students. Bathrooms are modern and built with privacy in mind, and the décor of each house is welcoming and light-filled, with heritage features and colour schemes to remind the boys of their shared heritage and bond.

Opportunities for socialising, group meetings and shared study have also been increased with a variety of wellappointed common spaces inspiring boys to connect, learn and grow. Each boarding house includes a kitchen, perfect for preparing a snack, enjoying some weekend cooking or celebrating a birthday.

The new boarding accommodation marks the latest in a series of upgrades to Churchie’s boarding precinct in recent years. A new purpose-built health centre and refurbished dining room and kitchen in the heritage-listed School House add to the world-class facilities that cater to the needs of every boy. And being situated on an expansive 22 hectare campus, boarders take full advantage of Churchie’s unique proximity to the city while having all academic and sporting facilities on their doorstep.

As Churchie boarders, all boys receive the highest level of care from a dedicated core team of specialist staff who live on campus with their families, including the director of boarding and a housemaster, assistant housemaster, housemother and resident master for each house. They are further supported by a network of teachers, nurses, catering staff and academic and counselling staff across the school, who are united in their commitment to the best care for Churchie’s boarders.

Ultimately, it is the combination of expert staff with worldclass facilities that provides the environment within which boys grow into accomplished young men. Churchie’s mission, the making of men, ensures every element of the school collaboratively supports each boy’s journey. The new boarding houses at Churchie are the latest development within a culture of continuous improvement dedicated to ensuring Churchie boarding offers the very best.

Take a virtual tour at churchie.youtour.com.au to view our new facilities, or visit us in East Brisbane to see them for yourself (for tour bookings, visit churchie.com.au/enrolments/school-tours). We are also visiting locations near you across Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory, with ‘on the road’ locations and enquiries at churchie.com.au/ontheroad

“MY FAVOURITE THING about school is definitely the tech shed… just working with my hands.” Meet Will Bryant, a SCOTS PGC boarder and boy from the bush who’s about to embark on his senior years of schooling at SCOTS PGC, where he receives an education that suits his style of learning and supports his objectives of securing trade skills through a school-based apprenticeship, while also allowing him to complete Year 12.

“We’ve made loads of things in our Industrial Technology Skills class. I’ve already made a chair in woodwork and now I am doing a coffee table. We also made a toolbox, fire brazier and fishing rod. I think industrial tech is great because it teaches us life skills and business skills. We treat the tech shed like a business, so we have to plan and calculate what materials we need to use with the least amount of scrap.”

The Bryant family live at their property, Cytherea, which is 80 kilometres from the township of Mitchell in outback Queensland. Bill and Shelly Bryant have three children: Matilda, Will and Phoebe. They chose SCOTS PGC as a boarding school for many reasons. It was important to keep their children together in a co-educational setting but also be >