Malvern Grammar School
| Caulfield Grammar School | |
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Caulfield, Wheelers Hill and Malvern, Victoria Australia |
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| Coordinates | 37°52′34″S 145°0′11″E / 37.87611°S 145.00306°ECoordinates: 37°52′34″S 145°0′11″E / 37.87611°S 145.00306°E |
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| Type | Independent, Co-educational, Day and Boarding |
| Motto |
Latin: Labora Ut Requiescas (Work hard that you may rest content) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Established | 25 April 1881 |
| Principal | Rev. Andrew Syme |
| Vice Principal | Mr Ashleigh Martin |
| Key people | Joseph Henry Davies (founder) |
| Enrolment | 3,035 (K–12) |
| Colour(s) | Blue & White |
| Slogan | "More than a school" |
| Website | www.caulfieldgs.vic.edu.au |
Caulfield Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later. The school amalgamated with Malvern Memorial Grammar School (MMGS) in 1961, with the MMGS campus becoming Malvern Campus.
Caulfield has three day campuses in Victoria, Caulfield (Years 7–12), Wheelers Hill (Kindergarten–Year 12), and Malvern House (Kindergarten–Year 6). It has an outdoor education campus at Yarra Junction, and a student centre in Nanjing, China where the Year 9 internationalism programme is conducted. Caulfield is the only Melbourne-based APS school to provide boarding for both boys and girls, with 95 boarding students, and is the second largest school in Victoria, currently catering for approximately 3,000 students.
Joseph Henry Davies, who had served as a missionary in southern India, purchased the site for the school — it was adjacent to the Elsternwick railway station, and had been a small lolly shop — for £25 on 16 April and employed his sister and two brothers as teachers. Davies' aim was "that the School should be a thoroughly Christian one" that looked to render "Christian service".
Although the school was originally located in Elsternwick, it is thought to have been named Caulfield Grammar School because Caulfield was the regional locality — and the geographical boundaries of Melbourne's suburban areas were not strictly defined or precisely named at the time — also, it is significant that the vicar of St Mary's Anglican Church in Caulfield had provided Davies with support when opening the school. Davies had gone to India under the auspices of St Mary's, having been a member of the church for several years before that.
Caulfield Grammar School was founded on 25 April 1881, by Davies, with just nine pupils. Davies' original intention was to commence classes on Wednesday, 20 April 1881; however, due to circumstances that were never clearly explained, Davies postponed the school's opening, at the last minute, until Monday, 25 April 1881.
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