Senior School - Ipswich Girls' Grammar School

Whatever your daughter's future goals and dreams may be, we are here to support her along the way.

In the Senior Years, we aim to inspire, challenge and instil the confidence necessary to ensure your daughter is well-equipped to thrive in her adult life.

Our Years 10, 11 and 12 girls are getting ready for the world outside secondary schooling. They move from Middle School to our Peter Phillips Senior School Complex equipped with our university-style Katherine C Carter (KCC) Lecture Theatre. This is just one of the facilities that prepares them for tertiary learning.

Guidance for career paths is offered through our comprehensive Careers Education program. Through the program, our girls develop the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions in their senior phase of learning and life beyond the School.

In Years 11 and 12, the school commits to supporting students' diverse aspirations, whether it is further academic study, VET programs, or careers in various fields. The support includes personalised biannual reviews with educational professionals to track progress towards the QCE and prepare for tertiary education. The school also supports English as a Second Language (ESL) learners with specialised teachers and promotes global citizenship through international and national study tours.

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The first year of Senior School marks significant change as the girls access a rich array of electives that continue to develop their academic ability and allow them to experience platform learning aligned to many of the new senior subjects.

Alongside English, Mathematics, Science, and Health and Well-being subjects, we offer our girls a broad, balanced liberal education through electives including: Health Education; Exercise Science; Arts - Music, Visual Expression and New Media, Film and Stage Arts; Design; Investigating Science; Humanities - Ancient and Modern History, Geography; Business - MYOB and Entrepreneurship; Languages - Chinese, Japanese, German; and Technology – Design.

Through lesson experiences, home study, research, reflection and collaborative work, your daughter develops powerful ways of working and ways of thinking, emphasised by each discipline. Often, it is within this extended learning landscape that an IGGS girl's university, career and future aspirations start to take shape.

To nurture our girls as global citizens, we have school tours overseas to countries such as Japan, China, South-east Asia, Germany and the United Kingdom and, closer to home, Tasmania. The girls also learn from visiting study tours from China, Japan and Germany where our guest students share classes, conversations and culture for a week, month or term.

During this year, our girls also have the opportunity to start vocational education and training coursework. We have qualified VET trainers on staff who are able to facilitate training in a range of vocational courses in the daily timetable. Certificate II in Hospitality (RTO 30310) students use the IGGS’s on-site Phoenix Function Room providing them with with multiple, relevant opportunities for real-world experience to meet the practical demands of the certificate coursework. Students may also opt to study the Certificate III Information Technology as part of the school timetable or to commence a Tafe at School vocational course with an external provider. The Diploma of Business can also be studied alongside other subjects through Axial Training who provide a trainer to run this course on campus. Students who demonstrate particular aptitude may choose to commence their Senior Studies by studying an early commencement subject of Chemistry or a language.

Whether our girls want to go onto further study at university, complete a VET program or pursue a career in Sport or the Arts, we are here to support, nurture and inspire them to realise their dreams. Students may also opt to commence tertiary study early, either through a Head Start course or the UniSQ UniPrep course.

In the Senior years, we provide an extensive academic curriculum, broad range of activities and an array of leadership opportunities all designed to develop your daughter’s talents, skills and confidence.

We provide personalised one-to-one interviews twice per year for each and every student with a member of the Executive Team – Deputy Principal, Dean of Studies, Dean of Students or Careers Counsellor. These consultations are incorporated as part of our commitment to holistic education and also serve to review your daughter’s academic progress towards the Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) and tertiary entrance standards, to ensure she is well equipped to achieve her goals and can step confidently beyond the school gate.

During these years, we continue to nurture our girls as global citizens with international and national study tour opportunities.

Digital and internet technologies offer our girls huge learning potential and we encourage them to become empowered learners in an increasingly social and digital world.

Every student is provided with a personal device as part of our 1:1 Laptop Program.

Ready access to technology means our girls are highly engaged in learning and more creative in the work they produce. They communicate more with teachers and curriculum materials are easier to access. Ultimately, they are equipping themselves with 21^st century skills that will empower them to transition to higher education and life beyond the School’s gates.

We recognise that with growing access to technology, there is a need for vigilance around its proper use and, as such, all students are required to abide by the Appropriate Use of Technology policy.

Ipswich Girls' Grammar School is an accredited Registered Training Organisation (RTO: 30310) and follows policies and procedures compliant with the standards for RTO's under the VET Quality Framework (VQF).

We offer the following qualification on scope: