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single-sex and

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early learning,

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and

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and boarding school , grades = Early learning;

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, grades_label = Years , gender = , denomination =

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, religious_affiliation =

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, educational_authority =

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, slogan = , principal1 = Dr John Collier , principal_label1 = Headmaster , founder = The Rev. Alfred Barry , chairman = B J E Warburton , chaplain = Anthony Benn , location = North Sydney and Northbridge, Lower North Shore,

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, affiliations = , athletics =

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, campus_type = , campuses = The Sydney Church of England Grammar School (commonly known as Shore or Shore School) is a dual-campus

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single-sex and

early learning,

and

and boarding school for boys, located on the Lower North Shore of

, Australia. Established in 1889 by the

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, Shore has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,600 students from Year K to

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, including 200 boarders from

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to Year 12. The school is co-educational from the early learning years to

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, and these students are housed on a separate campus in

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Northbridge. The school is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the

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(JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), the

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, and is a founding member of the

(AAGPS).

History

The Sydney Church of England Grammar School was founded on 4 May 1889, and was the

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of Bishop

Alfred Barry Alfred Barry (15 January 18261 April 1910) was the third Bishop of Sydney serving 1884–1889. Over the course of his career, Barry served as headmaster of independent schools, Principal of King's College London university and founded Anglic ...

of the Sydney Diocese of the

, after the closing of the St James School in 1886. The site of the school was chosen by the first Headmaster to be the

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of the famed

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Bernhardt Holtermann Bernhardt Otto Holtermann (29 April 1838 – 29 April 1885) was a successful gold miner, businessman, politician and photographer in Australia. Perhaps his greatest claim to fame is his association with the Holtermann Nugget, the largest gold sp ...

, a

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migrant who discovered the Holtermann Nugget in the Australian gold fields. He used his new-found wealth to build a magnificent home in North Sydney which is now a boarding house of Shore. His

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s were among the first students enrolled at Shore. The St James' School Compensation Trust Act (1886) provided for the foundation of: The schools colours were drawn from Christs College Cambridge, the college of the first Headmaster along with the schools diagonal stripes. On the crest, the bible and southern cross are placed on the top row, and a shell, representative of the St James School, and the torch, the schools motto on the bottom. The

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, a piece of uniform that has become closely associated with the school, was first encouraged to be worn in 1912, before becoming compulsory in 1924. The school officially has two names, the "Sydney Church of England Grammar School" and the Shore School has long been known by the latter, however it was not until the early 1990s when the name "The Shore School" was officially adopted. The name came about at sporting matches where

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could not chant 'Grammar', as this was already done by the students of

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. Another reason for the name change was that Sydney Church of England Grammar School was shortened to S.C.E.G.S, which sounded similar to S.C.E.G.G.S ( Sydney Church of England Girls' Grammar School), the

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of Shore. The name comes from the school being located in Sydney's North Shore region.

Campuses

The Sydney Church of England Grammar School is situated on two

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(8 hectare">ha) * Northbridge (9 ha) - ELC to Year 2 and sports grounds

North Sydney

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centres and classroom blocks there are: * War Memorial Chapel (1915) * The War Memorial Hall (1953) *Ken and Joan Smith Auditorium (1994) * Basil Travers, BH Travers Centre, including the library, Boer War Memorial Library and Basketball Courts (2000) * The Benefactors Building, including the Bob Gowing

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incorporating the school

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, mainly of the accomplishments of previous headmasters to school academic and extra-curricula achievement. * The

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Building, including the art department * Sporting facilities, including one

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s, In 2016, the school announced plans for an updated gym, squash courts, basketball court, an indoor/outdoor 50 meter pool and new classrooms as a part of the Shore Physical Education Centre (SPEC). Construction began early 2018, and has completed. The Preparatory School, originally constructed in 1926, was completely renovated in March 2006.

Northbridge

An Early Learning Centre (ELC) for boys and girls in the two years prior to starting Kindergarten, as well as a Kindergarten to Year 2 learning facility for boys and girls, was opened at the Northbridge campus in 2003. With Long

Day Care Child care, otherwise known as day care, is the care and supervision of a child or multiple children at a time, whose ages range from two weeks of age to 18 years. Although most parents spend a significant amount of time caring for their child(r ...

facilities, the ELC is open 48 weeks per year. The school's main sports facility is also at Northbridge, on land bought in 1916. The school was given a choice of either buying the neighbouring "Graythwaite" property (the former home of

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), or the land at Northbridge. The school chose the land at Northbridge as

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s, of which the school was in desperate need. This campus now features six full-sized ovals, tennis courts,

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s and

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s. The grounds were opened in 1919 as a

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to the 880 old boys who served, and the 122 who died in the

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. Northbridge has been redeveloped as the previous

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s had become severely dilapidated. The $9 million redevelopment includes a new grandstand and changerooms, and was officially opened on 11 November 2008.

Houses

Curriculum

Subjects

Shore offers a wide variety of subjects. Traditionally the school is most successful in

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and

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; producing 4 state rankings in the past 2 years including first in Business Studies in 2020, as well as Mathematics; producing eighth in 2021, fifth in 2018 and third in 2017 in the Extension 1, and first place in NSW in the Extension 2 course in 2017, and Latin; producing 5 state ranking since 2016.

Rankings

Co-curriculum

Sport

Shore students may participate in a variety of sports, mainly within the GPS competition. Sports include

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. T ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically atta ...

cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ...

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can ...

surf lifesaving Surf lifesaving is a multifaceted social movement that comprises key aspects of voluntary lifeguard services and competitive surf sport. Originating in early 20th century Australia, the movement has expanded globally to other countries, inc ...

, and

snowsports Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in cold area ...

. Furthermore, the school is currently trialing new sports such as

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

and

hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

. Until the arrival of Headmaster R.A.I. Grant (1984–2002), the choice of sports available to students was very limited. For example, during the winter months, there was only rugby union unless a medical exemption was available. That changed after 1984, with sports such as tennis and soccer being made available to all students. The school's boatshed and pontoon for its rowing club is at

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on the north shore of Sydney's

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. Shore was the third Sydney school to take to the water (after Grammar and Riverview) and has been rowing in the GPS competition since the late 1890s, to great result.

Performing arts

Shore has a comprehensive

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program, including Music Ensembles and Drama productions. Music ensembles include two concert bands, two stage bands, an orchestra, three string groups and the Shore Chapel Choir, as well as a number of other smaller ensembles. The Shore Performing Arts Centre features a proscenium arch theatre with 500 seats as well as a hydroluic orchestra pit, counterweight fly system and a state of the art lighting and audio control booth, and a multi-configurable black box theatre with seating arrangements ranging from 25 to 150 seats. The centre also boasts a wide range of orchestral rooms for both performance and rehearsals. Recent musical productions include ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'', ''Oliver!,'' ''West Side Story'', ''Anything Goes'', ''A Peculiar People'' (World Premier), ''Les Misérables'', ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.'' Recent dramatic productions include ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

The Cherry Orchard ''The Cherry Orchard'' (russian: Вишнёвый сад, translit=Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by ''Znaniye'' (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate edition ...

.''

Publications

The school has a weekly

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, ''The Shore Weekly Record'', which, along with informing boys and parents of upcoming happenings and sporting fixtures and results, gives certain boys the opportunity to express their writing and artistic talents in their own section, usually the inner part of the publication. Over the years this variously-named ''"inside section"'' has fostered the

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talents of Chris Taylor from ''

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'', and provided a unique perspective on the school and the wider world. Other publications are the ''Shore Reports'' (quarterly) and the ''Torch Bearer'' (yearly). File:ShoreSchool1930.jpg, Shore building in 1930, built by

in File:Shoreview1931.jpg, View from the North Sydney campus, 1931 File:Shorerowers1932.jpg, Shore eight-oar crew, 1932

Headmasters

After the 2022 decision to dismiss Dr Timothy Peterson seeking renewed leadership, the school has appointed Dr John Collier as interim headmaster. The school is also governed by a council jointly appointed by the Old Boys' Union and the

. The school has appointed 4 different deputy headmaster's, being MJ Leeds as deputy of academics, Dr AN Mansfield as deputy of operations, RG Dudgeon as deputy of pastoral care and Dr LK Gilmour as deputy of co-curricular activities, replacing the previous deputy headmaster, Rod Morrison, having retired after 5 years as deputy. The following individuals have served as headmaster of the school: ''* denotes interim''

Notable alumni

Shore

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are commonly referred to as 'Old Boys', and may elect to join the schools

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, the Shore Old Boys Union. Shore is notable for its strong connections in banking and finance, having produced the current CEO of Challenger Ltd and Chairman of

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, while also having in the past produced CEO's and Chairmen of

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(Now

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Commercial Banking Company of Sydney The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited, also known as the CBC, or CBC Bank, was a bank based in Sydney, Australia. It was established in 1834, and in 1982 merged with the National Bank of Australasia to form National Australia Bank. Hi ...

(Now NAB), IAG, MLC,

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, Rothschild Australia to name a few. However, some of Shores most notable old boys have come from other walks of life, including: * 16

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. * Famous actor

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. * Authors:

Kenneth Slessor Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences int ...

and Russel Braddon. * Chancellors and Vice Chancellors of

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(Melville),

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(Windeyer), University of New England (Wright). * The media mogul

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. * The founders of;

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MIRVAC Mirvac is an Australian property group with operations across property investment, development, and retail services. This entity now broadens their clientele and shareholder return on investment by venturing across multiple development sectors, ...

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. *

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Winner and Former world No.1

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. * Wallaby Captains

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and David Codey. * High Court Justices: Sir William Owen, Sir Dudley Williams,

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. *

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and Chief Justice of Queensland Sir

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External links

Sydney Church of England Grammar School website

Shore Old Boys Union website
{{authority control Boarding schools in New South Wales Educational institutions established in 1889

SHORE A shore or a shoreline is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake. In physical oceanography, a shore is the wider fringe that is geologically modified by the action of the body of water past a ...

Anglican secondary schools in Sydney Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference Boys' schools in New South Wales Junior School Heads Association of Australia Member Schools North Sydney, New South Wales Anglican primary schools in Sydney 1889 establishments in Australia