What a year this has been! They said 2020 was the year of COVID-19: a year of resilience and strength of spirit in the face of lockdowns and uncertainty – but nobody would have guessed that 2021 would spring from the shadows to put us all to the test once again.
Despite the obvious difficulties and setbacks of the last twelve months, on the whole we still believe that it was a memorable and successful year. We had the most successful GPS cricket and football seasons in recent memory, and we are immensely proud of those teams as we are of all the boys involved in sport who committed to it even when it returned to an online space. Our debaters won the Senior A ISDA Competition and both Firsts and Seconds GPS Premierships. We had six pupils make it into the Science Olympiad Summer Schools at the start of 2021. Our HSC cohort collected nine “First In Course” titles – five more than the next best school – as well as taking a quarter of the State’s maximum ATARs. If anything, the unfortunate circumstances of 2021 proved above all else the tenacity of Grammar boys and our ability to succeed in all our endeavours through perseverance and motivation.
