Our Campuses
In the heart of South Yarra, surrounded by Melbourne’s prestigious cultural, sporting and arts facilities and steps away from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Girls Grammar is easily accessible by major metropolitan train, tram and bus route services.
Melbourne Girls Grammar boasts outstanding facilities across two purpose-built and thoughtfully designed campuses.
State-of-the-art technology, flexible learning spaces and special interest centres allow our girls to explore our contemporary curriculum freely, in support of their learning and development.
MERTON HALL
Merton Hall is home to our Senior Years, Middle Years and Early Learning Programs. It is located at 86 Anderson Street in South Yarra.
Heritage in appearance, innovative in practice, Merton Hall is equipped with a chapel, wellbeing centre, library, specialist Art, Drama and Science Centres, assembly hall, dining hall, multipurpose sports fields and a rowing facility located nearby on the banks of the Yarra River. Each learning space is age and educational-stage-appropriate. 21st century learning dispositions focus on the importance of creativity, communication and collaboration. These skills are best developed in environments that are designed to achieve this. Classrooms may include tables, desks, clusters of seating or even cushions on the floor. Screens, interactive whiteboards and digital technology adds another layer of teaching opportunity as do breakout spaces and our Nina Crone Library. Expert librarians assist students navigate physical and digital resources and spaces are curated to enable quiet reading, small group discussion and project work or focused revision and tutor time.
Our Middle Years girls in Years 5 and 6 learn at Wildfell, which was commissioned in 2011. It features learning studios with networked environments for agile and contemporary learning experiences.
These spaces enable younger students the opportunity to effectively bridge the transition from single classroom learning (primary years model) to multi-classroom learning (secondary school model) where Science, Art, Technologies, Music and Drama are in specialist spaces that foster creativity, curiosity and a love of learning.
At the more senior levels, students have curated spaces in areas focused on English, languages and the Humanities such as Classics and Philosophy where small class sizes enable in-depth study and discourse to take place in rooms that stimulate higher order thinking and future careers aspirations.
We always recommend a tour of the campus be undertaken whenever possible. Images only go so far to showcase a campus, but being on site and experiencing the buzz of education and friendship is special.
Early Learning Centre
The Barbara Tolson Early Learning Centre at Merton Hall features beautiful and stimulating learning environments for our 3 year old and 4 year old girls. Guided by ‘intentional learning’ principles, every aspect of the space is considered to spark curiosity in the world and what it has to offer.
Boarding House
The Boarding House at Melbourne Girls Grammar is in the heart of the campus with rooms overlooking the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Yarra river or east towards the Dandenong Ranges. Most of our boarders are in Year 9 or above. There are 90 beds and our resisdents are students who come from across Australia (66%) and the world (33%). Students must be 13 years old to live in the Boarding House. In the first few years, our boarders share rooms as a way to build connection and to meet other boarders and progress to single rooms as the demands of their study program require spaces for independent study and routines.
The Boarding House has been home to generations of Grammarians and provides a safe haven and the camaraderie required to feel comfortable and know that there is always someone their to look after them. Residential staff manage the House 24/7 while the Head of Boarding lives on campus and is minutes away if needed. At the start of each day, like at home, people who the students grow to trust and confide in are there to wish each Grammarian a good day and later to hear of the learnings of the day, the exciting activities engaged in and friendships developed.
Comprised of several floors, the Boarding House offers quality lodgings including relaxation areas, study spaces, communal kitchens and breakout areas, a dedicated dining hall and modern bathrooms and laundry facilities. We have quad, triple, double and single rooms based on age.
Each day, girls spend time with academic tutors in the School library and have access to the fitness and wellbeing centre, Artemis, where they can wind down from the day, participate in relaxation and meditation programs, or simple exercise to stay fit and healthy.
Artemis Centre
The Artemis Centre hosts a 25-metre swimming pool, exceptional wellbeing environments and Gymnastics classes, Learn-to-Swim, Swimming Club and Holiday Clinic programs.
From the moment your daughter enters MGGS, she has access to the Artemis Centre, a place designed to enhance in each student the desire to be active, fit and to look after their wellbeing. There, your daughter will have the opportunity to participate in recreational, team and competitive sport. Students are invited to select a Girls School Victoria (GSV) sport to participate in weekly. Training occurs during the school week and matches are played after school hours, leaving weekends free to socialise and study as required. Sports offered are varied and cover ball sports (e.g. basketball, tennis, netball and badminton) as well as field games such as AFLW and hockey. Students also have the opportunity to join a fitness program with a dedicated coach or a yoga class to relax and unwind from the rigours of the day. Rowing, athletics, swimming and snow sports are offered at entry level and build to elite programs for students seeking high level competition at state and national titles.
The Artemis centre is also used as par of the Health and Physical Education program. Learning about healthy lifestyles, including nutrition, personal hygiene, physical fitness, emotions and social relationships is integral to each student’s wellbeing and self-confidence. Physical wellbeing contributes to each child’s ability to concentrate, co-operate and learn.
The Health and Physical Education curriculum aims to enhance each child’s perception and understanding of herself and her world though exercise and teamwork. The program acknowledges the benefits of good physical health on wellbeing, self-efficacy, confidence and the ability to engage in learning. Being active and promoting movement skills and an appreciation of a healthy lifestyle are important components of the program.
Morris Hall
Our Junior Years Program is located at our Morris Hall campus at 100 Caroline Street in South Yarra. It is a five-minute walk from Merton Hall.
Morris Hall incorporates learning studios, specialist art, music and STEM centres, as well as sustainable gardens and a beautifully landscaped recreational playground for sports and dedicated activities.
The environment is architecturally designed to promote wonder, possibility and challenge for students of the 21st century. Studios accommodate two class groups and multiple educators. This enables students to work in age and stage appropriate learning groups for reading and regroup with others for other subject areas such as mathematics. Amenities are connected to each year group space ensuring that our students are able to access their materials, wash hands if required, or break for a snack all without leaving the studio or the supervision of their teacher. Digital technologies are provided and enable the educators to enhance learning in a controlled way. At these ages the sensory and exploratory nature of learning means having access to the best learning tools and equipment we can provide. Foster curiosity, creativity, communications and collaboration at a young age alongside the formal foundations of learning is intrinsically linked to our learning spaces and resources.
We also believe in outdoor learning, connecting our girls to the natural world around them. We utilise our immediate campus spaces including the Kitchen Garden, courts, tree house and imagination zones but venture further afield to take in the benefits of the Royal Botanic Gardens and the amazing facilities in the Artemis Centre, particularly for swimming and gymnastics lessons.
The Chapel of St Luke
The spiritual heart of Melbourne Girls Grammar, the Chapel of St Luke was originally built as an Assembly Hall in 1917 and was consecrated in 1967.
Opportunities to nurture faith and spirituality and to reflect on day-to-day life, our School’s progress and a greater understanding of our collective achievements, make Chapel Services an integral and much-loved part of the students’ routine.
Services of thanksgiving and praise during Community Time, and special services of Confirmation, the induction of the Student Representative Council, and the regular celebrations of Christmas and Easter all occur in the Chapel of St Luke, marking its centrality to school life.
The Chapel of St Luke continues to be a special place of worship and thanksgiving for the MGGS community of current and past students and is a place of celebration and solace for Old Grammarians at times of baptism, marriage and bereavement.
Current and past Melbourne Girls Grammar students and their families are most welcome to contact the School Chaplain to discuss having the Anglican services of Baptism, Marriage and Funerals in the Chapel of St Luke.