38 / 164
38
Business View Oceania - October/November 2017
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