Canberra Grammar School

In the primary school, the Australian Curriculum and Early Years Learning Framework requirements are incorporated through International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.[7]

In the senior school, from years 7 to 10, the school follows the Australia Curriculum and the ACT Every chance to learn curriculum framework.[8] Unlike other schools in the Australian Capital Territory, Canberra Grammar School does not follow the ACT Year 12 Curriculum. Instead, students in years 11 and 12 have the option to study either the New South Wales Higher School Certificate (HSC) or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.[9] In 2012, Canberra Grammar became an International Baccalaureate World School.[10]

The school offers many activities outside school hours. These include sport, music and other activities.[11]

• Junior School: athletics , adventure club, ball games, basketball, chess, cricket, cross country running, drama, European handball, gardening, golf, indoor soccer, mini volleyball, multimedia, orienteering, rugby, art, swimming, tae kwon do, tennis, triathlon
• Senior School: athletics club, alternate reality club (ARC), badminton, basketball, CGS Academy (Yr 11 & 12 tutoring for younger students), chess, Code Cadets,[12] community service, cricket, cross country, Cru (Christian Group), debating, dragon boat, drama, Duke of Edinburgh awards, Equestrian Club, football (soccer), golf, hockey, mountain biking, netball, orienteering, outdoor education, rowing, rugby, sailing, snowsports, strength and conditioning, STEM Club, Sustainable CGS,[13] swimming, tae kwon do, tennis, Thucydides club, water polo,
• Junior School Music: Junior School Chorale, Junior Choir, Senior Choir, String Orchestra, Concert Band, Canberra Grammar School Stage Band
• Senior School Music is made up of two streams of performance groups:
  • The Advanced Musicians Program consists of a senior (higher level) concert band, Chamber Orchestra , senior Jazz band, senior percussion ensemble, brass ensemble and Motet. These students have high level performance opportunities.
  • The Large ensemble Program provides larger ensemble-based experiences, including two concert bands, junior (lower level) jazz band, two string ensembles, a choir, an electric guitar ensemble, junior percussion ensemble and a piano ensemble.

Many of the Senior School ensembles have done numerous tours overseas over the years including the senior Jazz band, Chamber Orchestra and guitar ensemble tour to Hong Kong and Singapore in 2019.

:See also Category:People educated at Canberra Grammar School

Academia

• Peter David Arthur Garnsey (1961)[15]
• Professor Geoffrey Garrett, political scientist[16]
• Professor Malcolm Gillies, Vice-Chancellor and President, City University, London; Vice-Chancellor, London Metropolitan University[17]
• Professor Jeffrey Grey, Australian military historian[18]
• Professor Toby Miller, sociologist[19]

Business

• Kerry Packer, publishing, media and gaming tycoon[20]
• Rowan Dean, advertising executive[21]
• Terry Snow, Executive Director of the Canberra Airport Group,[22] Australian businessman (trained accountant), entrepreneur, and philanthropist

Media, entertainment and the arts

• Richard Glover, author, journalist, ABC radio presenter[23]
• Alister Grierson, film director and scriptwriter
• Francis James, RAF pilot and POW during WWII, journalist[24] and publisher, activist against the Vietnam War
• Peter Leonard, former WIN News Canberra reader[25]
• James O'Loghlin, ABC Sydney presenter[26]
• Dan O'Malley, author of The Rook
• Fred Smith, musician, writer and diplomat
• Mark Walmsley, musician and composer for ABC children's CDs[27]

Politics, public service and the law

• Wal Fife, Liberal Party of Australia Federal member for Hume, New South Wales[28]
• Robert Piper, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the humanitarian coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with the rank of UN Assistant Secretary General
• Shane Rattenbury, Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, 2008–present and Speaker[29]
• Andrew Refshauge, deputy Premier of New South Wales 1995–2005[30]
• Richard Refshauge, ACT Supreme Court Justice[31]
• Jon Richardson, Former Australian High Commissioner to Ghana (2004–08) and Nigeria (2013–15)[32]
• Peter Webb, New South Wales State member for Monaro 1999–2003[33]
• Gough Whitlam (Dux three years running), Prime Minister of Australia, 1972–1975[34]
• Andrew Constance, New South Wales State member for Bega 2003-Current[35]

Sport

• Edward Bissaker, Junior World Champion cyclist[36]
• Bob Brown, former Wallabies rugby union player[37]
• Josh Bruce, St Kilda, Australian rules football player[38]
• Andy Friend, ACT Brumbies former Head Coach[39]
• David Gallop, former Chairman of the National Rugby League (NRL)[40]
• Rod Kafer, Wallabies rugby union player[39]
• Peter Kimlin, Wallabies rugby union player[39]
• Michael Milton, world and Australian record holder, Winter Paralympic gold medalist[41]
• Nick McDonald-Crowley, Olympic rower[42]
• Cody Meakin, Australian wheelchair rugby paralympian
• Fergus Pragnell, Australian representative rower[43]
• Guy Shepherdson, Wallabies rugby union player[39]
• Ben Treffers, Junior World Champion swimmer[44]
• Richard Freedman, Horse trainer and media personality[45][46]

Other

• Bill Birtles, ABC journalist[47]
• David Eastman, former Dux found not guilty of murder on 22 November 2018, after a retrial on a quashed murder conviction[48][49]
• Dr James Muecke AM, Australian of the Year 2020[50] Class of 1981[51]

• List of schools in the Australian Capital Territory
• List of boarding schools
• Associated Southern Colleges

• McKeown, P.J., Editor (1979). Deo, Ecclesiae, Patriae; Fifty Years of Canberra Grammar School. Australian National University Press. ISBN 0-7081-1591-8.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)