A crucial element of our success is the 38 motivated members of staff who work with parents to develop the whole boy - boys that value literature and numeracy skills, the ability to think for themselves, boys who build their confidence and learn how to relate to and with others, who learn and cherish moral values, boys who love a challenge and have a hunger to learn and boys who are, most importantly, happy.      

The Prep School has around 400 boys who share the campus, timetable and facilities with the Secondary School. It retains its own Library (click HERE to view the website), Art facilities and Preparatory Music Centre. The Preparatory School caters for boys and their individual developmental needs and focuses on the fundamentals of education: writing, spelling, mathematics, grammar and phonics. We encourage boys to develop personal values, virtues and emphasise the importance of a handshake and eye contact. 

Boys are engaged in a wide range of co-curricular activities which inspire learning and teamwork through a myriad of opportunities.

The Preparatory School is a Pre-Primary to Year 7 school that caters for boys from the ages of 5 to 12 with a focus on the core areas of English and Mathematics. Specialist areas and Co-Curricular activities include Art, Music, Physical Education, Sport, Library, Cultural Studies, Languages Other Than English, Robotics, Chess Club and after school Art.

The Preparatory School shares the campus, timetable and its facilities with the Senior School.

The LW Parry Preparatory School has its own Library and Art Centre and within the Music Centre there is a special Preparatory School teaching area. In 2000 an Early Learning Centre (ELC) was established as a sub-unit of the Preparatory School and covers classes from Pre-Primary to Year 3. The addition of a Pre-Primary class adds a thirteenth year to the Christ Church programme.

Early Learning Centre

The Early Learning Centre aims to provide a relevant curriculum and an appropriate educational offerings for children between the ages of five and eight in a well planned environment through rich and stimulating experiences. Close observation of children's development in social, physical and academic growth allows a program of learning to be devised which best suits individual children.

Pre-Primary

The Pre-Primary class offers a year of discovery play-based learning for boys who turn five between 1 July of the year before starting and 30 June of their year of commencement. It takes a maximum of 20 students who spend their last non-compulsory year of schooling interpreting and investigating the world about them through their senses, sharing their discoveries with adults and their peers.