Geelong Grammar

[kellyjamie]

Hi can anyone give me any comments on geelong Grammar? good or bad

Thanx:wubclub:

[Guest mandy&Jem]

Sorry cant help, but would love to know what Geelong Grammer is! Or more importantly whether i NEED to know what it is? lol.

 

OMG.....Embarrased. Thought it was some new Australisn way of speaking! I.L.M.A.O.......Yep very. Embarrassed!!!!!......Ive just done some quick research and found out it is a grammer school......well durr......i hear you all reply......lol.......

 

Okay situation remains the same, still cant help, but i love the idea of the positive psychology that they proffess to teach by, sounds brilliant to me........Good luck with your Quest! -X-

[Guest Andy Thomas]

One family whose children go to The Peninsula School in Mount Eliza have just moved their kids to Geelong Grammar. The reputation of the school is that good that they have bought a house in Geelong to live in during the schook terms just so the kids can go to school there, in the holidays they will come and live back in their main residence in Mount Eliza.

 

I have heard the kids talking about it and it is supposed to be one of the top schools in Victoria.

 

Andy

[connaust]

Geelong Grammar part of the APS is fine, good mix of day goers and boarders, Prince Charles did a term there at Timber Top their campus in the mountains.

 

The best is Scotch College in Melbourne, has the most old boys in Australian Who's Who....then again I am a bit biased...

[Quoll]

In Aussie terms it is rather like asking "tell me about Eton". Very prestigious (along with Scotch of course!) and will probably set you back $15-20K pa in fees and add ons. I am sure there are scholarships which would be hard fought for if you have a particularly talented child. Also in Geelong is Geelong College which has slightly lower fees but still in the thousands.

[Guest gabi1959]

Hi there,

 

I had my son at both Geelong College and Geelong Grammar

He was very young at the time.

He started kindergarten at Geelong College when he was three. He was only there for 6 months - hated it. There was an old battleaxe who ran the place. She was vilke and thank God she is no longer there. During the cold winter moths she woulkd allow the child to get wet - and I mean , saturated and never changed them. My son was always sick. She woulkd not let the kids ack inside because she had just ckeaned the rooms, so these poos children would have to spend most of the day outside. I also turned up unanounced, andthere were using my sons sleeping bag for the other children to slepp in as they were too lazy to check names- not very hygenic as children do dribble quite a bit.

 

I puthim into Geelong Grammar. After 2 years there, they couldn't pick up on the fact that my son needed glasses and couldn't see well. He was behind in his reading. It was when I tok him out of there and put him in a plain old State Scholl, that they actually picked up on the problem.

He also was nearly 6 had had to slepp with the younger children, because at Geelong Grammar, the 3,4,5 year old chidren all do the same thing.

Alos I was paying extra for music lessons and one of the teachers who would take the younger children, was not picking up my son for his lessons. I discovered this and stayed back to see if it was true and in fact it was. I asked him why and he said he had been busy so I was paying for lessons that my son never received. Not an apology nor a reimbursement - nothing. Thieves morte like it

 

I am however, putting him back into Geelong Grammar as their high school carriculum is great and I want him to experience Timbertop.

 

So, avoid primary school like the plague, but put your children into Corio Senior School.

 

Any way I hope this will help prospctive parents.

 

Cheers,

 

Gabi