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. Parking lots are for decoration only. Use will lead to collapse of infrastructure. The Borker Red Bin Association would like to remind students that the red bins around the school are strictly staff only. Any student use is grounds for expulsion. Canteen prices for the large special have risen by 70 cents in the past 3 years. Student Driving Code of Conduct now in effect. Permission forms available from Reception. See news for details. 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. Parking lots are for decoration only. Use will lead to collapse of infrastructure. The Borker Red Bin Association would like to remind students that the red bins around the school are strictly staff only. Any student use is grounds for expulsion. Canteen prices for the large special have risen by 70 cents in the past 3 years. Student Driving Code of Conduct now in effect. Permission forms available from Reception. See news for details. 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. Parking lots are for decoration only. Use will lead to collapse of infrastructure. The Borker Red Bin Association would like to remind students that the red bins around the school are strictly staff only. Any student use is grounds for expulsion. Canteen prices for the large special have risen by 70 cents in the past 3 years. Student Driving Code of Conduct now in effect. Permission forms available from Reception. See news for details.

Years K–6

Junior School

A nurturing foundation in literacy, numeracy, and the unspoken hierarchies of the lunchtime handball court.

The Junior School represents the formative years of a Borker education. Here, children acquire the tools they will rely on for the remainder of their lives: phonics, basic addition, the firm conviction that their first-choice handball court is "downball", and an early appreciation for the politics of a shared paste table.

Programme

Our Pre-Kindergarten through Year 6 programme is grounded in the NSW syllabus, supplemented by the school's distinctive co-curricular offering: choir, instrumental music, fundamentals sport, and an eight-year incremental introduction to losing.

Pastoral Care

Each year level is supported by a Pastoral Care Coordinator, an experienced teacher, and a single laminated copy of the Junior School Code of Conduct. Behavioural matters are managed through restorative conversation, parent communication, and, in extreme cases, "the bench by the office".

Year 6 Leadership

The Year 6 Leadership programme equips senior Junior School students with badge-related responsibilities, one (1) opportunity to address an assembly, and a foundational understanding that authority, in the end, is mostly performative.

Lunchtimes

Lunchtimes in the Junior School operate on a delicately maintained equilibrium. Trade negotiations over Tiny Teddies remain the most volatile sector of the playground economy. The school does not intervene unless tears are recorded.