Brisbane Grammar School

boys with similar status to the school prefects. “We also have leaders within each of our 10 house families, all of whom set the all-important tone for the junior boarders,” Williams-Jones continues. “We like to try to look for opportuni- ties for each boy to be in charge. We feel it essential that each boy gains a meaningful understanding of what it is to be a leader.” Connections and progress While certainly a leading school in Queensland and Australia, it is clear that there is little egotism in its atti- tude. Carroll explains to us the school’s refreshing outlook, an outlook which inevitably spurs it on to continuing ex- cellence: “We are proud of what our students achieve at school and in their lives af- ter graduation, but we are always work- ing to do things better.” Carroll clarifies that the school achieves this through a persistently collaborative atmosphere. By motivat- ing its staff through professional de- velopment, the school always sees the positive trickledown effects befall its students. The other side to this collaborative