Girls-Only Boarding From Year 5

At Ipswich Girls’ and Junior Grammar School, we offer girls from around Australia and overseas a stable, well-rounded educational experience in our highly supervised, supportive family environment.

For families that need flexibility and convenience, we offer casual, weekly and full-time on-site boarding for girls from Year 5 to Year 12.

As a boarder, your daughter will be safe, comfortable, well fed, highly supervised, academically and socially supported.

Our recently renovated Cribb House is a multi-level, home-away-from-home fitted with essential security features and alarmed every evening. The House stands in the middle of our campus and overlooks the city of Ipswich and the School’s extensive, landscaped grounds.

Our girls eat healthy meals planned by our nutritionist and made fresh in our Dining Hall each day.

Your daughter’s health and wellbeing are paramount, and our dedicated teachers, counsellors, nutritionist, registered nurse and experienced boarding supervisors and staff are all on hand to take good care of her.

Throughout her learning adventure she will have academic support and access to resident staff each evening to assist her with homework over a nightly, two-hour supervised study session.

We understand she will need time to herself and part of the structured life in our boarding community is down time. Our boarders are encouraged to become involved in some of the School’s many co-curricular activities and have plenty of time to socialise with friends.

Boarding will foster your daughter’s independence and personal growth under the watchful eye of our teachers and mentors. From the moment she joins us she will become part of a special, inclusive community where she will make lifelong friends.

Day in the Life

What makes our School so special is that all our girls have a sense of belonging. As a boarder, your daughter will be part of a caring, extended family. She will have fun, feel at home and make lifelong friends.

Our boarders’ days are never boring. Each morning they prepare for School then eat a healthy, nutritionist planned breakfast in our Dining Hall.

Classes, homework, study, sport, music and other interests take up a lot of time. Our boarding girls spend their spare time using our extensive range of facilities, including our gym, swimming pool, tennis courts or just relax and read a book in our beautiful, landscaped gardens.

As well, our boarders love to socialise together in our comfortable, air-conditioned common rooms or outdoors enjoying our decked BBQ area and fire pit.

Evenings are spent having dinner, doing homework, enjoying some free time and preparing for bed.

On weekends the girls have plenty of fun with sports, chaperoned shopping and day trips, quiz nights, themed dinners, movie nights and organised social events with our brother school Ipswich Grammar.

Cribb House

Set in the heart of our campus, our recently renovated boarding facility, Cribb House offers a personalised, secure, family home-away-from-home experience for up to 100 girls each year.

The House is fully equipped with comfortable bedrooms, study nooks, air-conditioned common rooms, kitchenettes and shared bathroom and laundry facilities.

Middle School girls either have their own room, or share with one other boarder while our Senior girls have the option of individual rooms. Each room is equipped with study desk and shelves, storage for personal items and wi-fi.

Our recently refurbished Reception area opens out to an expansive outdoor deck with BBQ facilities, fire pit and lush green lawns overlooking the city of Ipswich.

Security is paramount and as such the House is fitted with a monitored electronic alarm system. As an extra safety precaution, our House Reception Staff require all boarders and visitors to sign in and out of the House so we know where our girls are at all times.

Flexible Boarding

We understand that modern families need flexibility and convenience and offer a variety of after school care and overnight boarding options through our GRAMMAR PLUS program.

GRAMMAR PLUS options include: