Term 2 reminder: house ties are mandatory; house morale is optional. The chapel organ has been retuned. Someone left a banana on the keyboard. Pacific Highway pedestrian crossing reverts to normal operation after Tuesday's incident. Cadet bivouac relocated to Bowman Field pending Hornsby Shire clarification. Senior Study Hub kettle: operational. Senior Study Hub kettle queue: not. Westfield lunch-run permits revoked for Year 9 until further notice. Reminder: assessment submissions in MP3 format are now strongly recommended. iCentral confirms last Tuesday's Flexischools outage has been resolved. Mufti Day raised $4,217 for the Year 7 Pastoral Care Vending Machine. Reminder: e-scooters are not permitted in the chapel, even briefly. The First XV defeated themselves in a closed-doors trial. Coach "pleased". Boarders kindly requested to stop forming their own micro-economies. The kookaburra on the front lawn has been issued a Year 12 leadership badge. The plinth on the front lawn is the site of the seventh memorial. BREAKING: Year 9 cohort discovers Year 9 cohort. A reminder that the Avenue is for pedestrian use, not for trading futures. Celebration of Learning concluded at 8:47pm. The Headmaster has notes. Year 11 Avenue trading incident now under quiet review. iCentral reminds students: closing your laptop is not, on its own, a backup. Term 2 reminder: house ties are mandatory; house morale is optional. The chapel organ has been retuned. Someone left a banana on the keyboard. Pacific Highway pedestrian crossing reverts to normal operation after Tuesday's incident. Cadet bivouac relocated to Bowman Field pending Hornsby Shire clarification. Senior Study Hub kettle: operational. Senior Study Hub kettle queue: not. Westfield lunch-run permits revoked for Year 9 until further notice. Reminder: assessment submissions in MP3 format are now strongly recommended. iCentral confirms last Tuesday's Flexischools outage has been resolved. Mufti Day raised $4,217 for the Year 7 Pastoral Care Vending Machine. Reminder: e-scooters are not permitted in the chapel, even briefly. The First XV defeated themselves in a closed-doors trial. Coach "pleased". Boarders kindly requested to stop forming their own micro-economies. The kookaburra on the front lawn has been issued a Year 12 leadership badge. The plinth on the front lawn is the site of the seventh memorial. BREAKING: Year 9 cohort discovers Year 9 cohort. A reminder that the Avenue is for pedestrian use, not for trading futures. Celebration of Learning concluded at 8:47pm. The Headmaster has notes. Year 11 Avenue trading incident now under quiet review. iCentral reminds students: closing your laptop is not, on its own, a backup.

Years 9–12

Boarding

A home away from home. Lights out at 10:00pm. Snacks confiscated at 10:01pm.

Boarding at the College offers students a structured, supportive, and surveilled environment in which to flourish across Years 9 to 12. Students are accommodated in single or twin rooms, arranged across three Houses, each presided over by Heads of House who do not, contrary to local legend, sleep.

A Day in Boarding

06:30 – Wake bell. Highly negotiable.
07:00 – Breakfast. Cereal options have not changed since 2014.
08:30 – Lessons commence.
15:30 – Sport, music, or supervised study.
18:00 – Dinner.
19:30 – Prep. Mandatory. Genuinely.
21:30 – Common room. The microwave operates at high alert.
22:00 – Lights out.
22:01 – The first noise complaint of the night.

Boarding Houses

The school operates three Boarding Houses, each with its own traditions, dynamics, and ongoing rivalry with at least one other House over a matter no one can quite remember the origin of.

Pastoral Support

Boarding students are supported by their Head of House, Resident Tutors, the school counsellor, and a series of group chats which the school chooses, charitably, not to monitor.

A Note on the Boarders' Economy

Boarders have, historically, demonstrated a creative aptitude for resource management. The school asks that any internal markets remain at a scale and frequency that do not require formal disclosure. Recent activities of concern have included Tim Tam futures, a brief but spirited "common room raffle", and an attempted IPO of a single airpod.