Year 7 day students enjoy boarding house slumber party There was a lot of excitement over the weekend as Year 7 day boys swapped their usual after school Friday pick up for a sleepover at our newly renovated Walters boarding house. read more Christ Church staff gear up for Wagin Woolorama Next weekend, Christ Church Grammar School will be attending the Wagin Woolorama - a popular agricultural trade fair in WA's Wheatbelt region. read more ‘Younger’ old boys provide a future focus Our Year 12 students were joined by a number of younger old boys recently over a series of Future Focus breakfasts. read more Year 7 boys take a trip back to Ancient Greece As part of their Humanities course, our Year 7 boys have recently completed their study of Ancient Greece and included was an opportunity to create a display suitable for a museum. read more Old boys and Year 12s look to the future A panel of old boys were on campus this week sharing information about their journey since Christ Church with our Year 12s as part of the Old Boys’ Association’s Future Focus series. read more The AdVenture of a lifetime begins Our Year 10 cohort set off on Tuesday morning for their highly anticipated Venture, comprising a 11-day journey in small groups with two staff, through the bushland, majestic forests and coastal settings of the Walpole-Nornalup National Park. read more Mothers and sons share magical moment There was a wonderful turn out to last weekend’s Mothers and Sons ‘Time and Space’ event as close to 200 attendees gathered to discuss times of transition in our boys’ lives. read more Year 12 cohort bid farewell this week Our graduating Year 12s were honoured with their final assembly and a Valedictory Dinner on Tuesday. read more Top performers receive wisdom from old boy Four of our top performing students recently attended the Year 12 Student Economics Forum hosted by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI). read more The ones that didn’t get away It was tight lines these school holidays with boys from Years 10 and 11 fishing the remote coastlines of the Lacepede Islands as part of our 2017 Fishing Tour. read more The wonderful relationship between a father and son The Year 12 Father/Friend and Son Breakfast took place at Frasers Restaurant prior to the end of Term 2, drawing together over 300 fathers and sons for a very special occasion. read more House Cross Country 2017 Six-hundred and fifty boys across Years 7 to 12 took part in the annual House Cross Country last Friday afternoon, tackling a near 4km course around Kings Park under what was pleasant running conditions. read more Building healthy and strong relationships Over 200 Year 9 boys and their fathers gathered in the School Refectory last month for the inaugural Year 9 Father/Son experience, a special opportunity for fathers to discover new ways to build healthy, strong relationships with their boys. read more Top performers get a taste for federalism It was the third year top performing Year 12 Economics and Political and Legal Studies students from Christ Church attended the PwC Federal Budget Breakfast following release of the recent federal budget. read more Boys triumph at OzCLO It has been another triumphant year for Christ Church boys and their participation of The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO). This year, Christ Church had seven representing teams and fielded its first ever senior level team. read more Breakfast served, sunny side up Over 315 mothers, significant female mentors and Year 9 boys filled the School Refectory last Thursday morning for our annual Year 9 Mother/Friend and Son Breakfast. read more Making the most of sleep There are a number of things that can interfere with your sleep, including a late/delayed body clock, stress/anxiety, feeling pressured to “do it all” and undervaluing sleep. During high school, around nine hours per night is recommended (but this varies from person to person). A few nights of poor sleep won’t be the end of the world, and there are individual differences in how much sleep we need. read more WA da Vinci Decathlon 2017 Eight students in each Years 7 to 10 competed in the WA da Vinci Decathlon at Wesley College in late March. The da Vinci decathlon is an academic competition in which boys work together to complete tasks across 10 different disciplines. These include Mathematics, Science, English, Code Breaking, Art and Poetry, Cartography, General Knowledge, Creative Producers, Ideation and Engineering. read more Building our next generation of engineers Each Friday morning, our Mathematics Department run a specialist class for students from Years 10 to 12 who are on the Maths Methods or Maths Specialist pathway, and are interested in studying engineering (particularly mining engineering) at university. read more A taste of the colonial court system Boys studying Humanities in Year 8 paid a special visit to Perth’s law courts last week to experience a full court hearing process and participate in legal education activities. read more Exploring the world of biomes at Perth Zoo Year 9 boys visit Perth Zoo on Wednesday 15 February to explore the world of biomes. The boys spent time learning about and observing animals and vegetation across three different biomes which they recently have been studying; Australian hot desert, Asian rainforest and the African savannah. read more Towards the stars and beyond Our Year 11 cohort visited St George’s College last week as part of Ad Astra Day, an annual event providing boys with an opportunity to gain inspiration and guidance from a line-up of speakers. This year’s keynote speaker was former Christ Church Captain of School, Yannick Spencer (2005) who spoke to the boys about keeping things in perspective, maintaining flexibility, looking out for your friends, and accepting support. read more Students achieve global A grades read more