Oxford Falls Grammar School

Oxford Falls Grammar School

For Greatness. For Excellence. For Christ.
Location
NSW
Australia
Information
Type Independent, Co-educational, private, Pentecostal, Day
Established 1984
Founder Dr Phil Pringle
Headmaster None
Grades K - 12
Enrolment 1200
Campus 6 hectares/10 acres
Colour(s) Junior Navy and Grammar Green          
Affiliations Christian City Church, Christian Schools Australia, Combined Independent Schools, Christian Schools Sports Association, Peninsula Independent Schools Association
Website www.ofgs.nsw.edu.au

Oxford Falls Grammar School is a private, co-educational K - Year 12 non-denominational Christian school in Oxford Falls, Sydney, NSW, Australia. The school is set on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of landscaped grounds on Sydney’s northern beaches. Incorporating a four-stream infants school, three-stream primary school and a triple-stream senior school, the school community comprises approximately 1200 students, from over 600 families, and 120 staff members. The school is a member of Christian Schools Australia and also has membership of the Christian Schools Sporting Association (CSSA) and the Combined Independent Schools (CIS).

The current headmaster of Oxford Falls Grammar is Rae Doak as 'acting headmaster'

Current School Executive

Past School Executive

Facilities

Set in a picturesque, semi-rural local in Sydney's North, Oxford Falls Grammar School is designed to maximise learning and opportunities. Modern resources and exceptional facilities include two full sized ovals, a small oval, an indoor gymnasium and basketball court, a large auditorium, a state of the art theatre with retractable seating, and a Performing Arts Centre incorporating purpose-built Dance and Drama studios, music tuition rooms, a production studio, an acoustic music room, an electronic music studio, and a dedicated concert and stage band rehearsal room and a cafe.

Sport

Oxford Falls Grammar School competes in many sports including at state and national levels.

Sports teams at Oxford Falls Grammar include:

Basketball is one of the main sports played in both the Junior and Senior schools. Teams have gone on to reach national levels and have competed at events such as The National Christian Schools Basketball Championships. The school is well represented at local and state Rugby, Soccer and Netball gala days. Aussie rules is a popular sport in the Junior school and Oxford Falls Grammar is very successful in competitions; reaching the 2006 NSW Finals in the Paul Kelly Cup. The school competes in swimming, diving, athletics and cross country events at Metropolitan, CSSA State and CIS State levels. Swimmers have gone on past CSSA State level to the annual National Christian Schools Swimming Championships. In 2005, a number of students competed in the Pacific School Games and brought home a number of Gold medals.

PISA sport is also offered and includes T-ball, senior girls softball, senior boys cricket, boys and girls soccer, girls netball, boys rugby league (mod-league)and mixed AFL.

The School is a member of Combined Independent Schools (CIS) which allows a highly competitive pathway for individuals in a large array of sports.

Performing Arts

Oxford Falls Grammar School is highly regarded in NSW as a leading Independent School in the area of Performing Arts. The number of students involved in our extra-curricular Performing Arts Program represents two-thirds of students in the School.

Opportunities for students include:

OFGS has one of the largest music tuition studios in Sydney with over 600 students weekly receiving private music tuition during school hours.

Students sit the International TRINITY music exams on traditional instruments, and Rockschool International exams on contemporary Rock and Pop instruments including vocals.

Examiners are flown out from the UK in Term 4 to assess the students on their individual exams.

Academic

Students can also participate in Extra curricular Latin, Maths Challenge, Maths Olympiad, Chess Club, Informatics Competition and Olympiad, The da Vinci Decathlon, The Great Engineering Challenge, Science Olympiads, Tournament of Minds, Writing Competitions, and the Model United Nations Debating and Public Speaking Programs and the Debating Team.


See also

Alumni

Charlotte Best, Australian actress

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