Knox Grammar School has been awarded a 5 Star Innovative Schools 2021 Award by The Educator.
This award recognises the School's innovation in teaching and learning across its three campuses.
In this dynamic, complex and rapidly changing world, schools must ensure that their students are confident and competent in the use of new innovative technologies and can move into the future with courage and agency. Across all three campuses at Knox Grammar School, we are committed to empowering our students to own and lead the learning, take informed risks and maximise the incredible potential of new technologies.
At Knox Preparatory School, the students have been exploring and experimenting with AR and VR to deepen inquiry learning experiences. Students use an extended reality (XR) web platform to take control of their learning and showcase their skills and competencies in virtual environments in real time. Our students are creators and curators of the content in these virtual platforms and they work collaboratively to develop future-focused dispositions and a highly agile skillset.
Putting this into practice, students from across the grades have facilitated live events in virtual environments, delivering tutorials to educators at a range of conferences around the world. They have run digital and design technology workshops at the 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network and at the International Society for Technology in Education Conference. The students connected with participants globally and engaged educators in professional learning experiences, resulting in other schools adopting these technologies.
In the Senior School, enabling students to be more agentic has been the driver for the Certificate of Global Competency. This certificate achieved through the accumulation of micro-credentials, recognises that students are more than a grade. It validates the passion, knowledge and skills that students already have, encouraging them to be agentic, committed citizens who are altruistic and have the courage to move beyond their comfort zone. Our students are now fully engaged in the curation and demonstration of their skills and achievements within and beyond school.
More importantly, a team of students collaborated with teachers and parents in the design and implementation of the certificate. This student team drives the dissemination of information to the student body, produces promotion materials and is the key advisory body for any needed changes or additions. Learning Creates Australia has acknowledged the importance of this certificate in their search for new student credentials.
Two powerful examples of how the Certificate fosters agency and innovation are the student led conferences that occurred in 2020 and 2021. The STEAM expo that featured industry partners and universities sharing innovative technologies was completely devised, led and run by students. A public school principal, his executive team and their local member attended the event and asked the STEAM student team to mentor them and their students. The second student designed and led cross-sectoral event, was the ‘Leading Wellbeing: A Student Perspective’ that attracted students from 20 schools and featured student-led workshops.
Knox is committed to ensuring that its Pre-K-12 students are innovative agents of change with the ability and the will to positively influence their own lives and the world around them.
30 May 2025
The Prep School hosted Old Boy Alex Richter (OKG20) for our bi-annual Ride With Richter fundraiser, to support SpinalCure Australia’s impactful neurostimulation research.
26 May 2025
We are delighted to announce that Knox students Ryan (Year 10), Harry (Year 11), and Summer (Year 11) have represented New South Wales with distinction at the 2025 National Schools Debating Championships (NSDC), held 11–18 May.
26 May 2025
For the annual Anzac Service and Parade, CUO Abbey, Senior Cadet Under Officer, reflected on why we commemorate Anzac Day. She spoke of a ceremony of tradition, where we remember sacrifice which continues to shape our two nations, as well as the young men that fought for one another and something greater than themselves.
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