Why a school for boys?

We understand and celebrate boys

Our teachers encourage our students to grow and mature at their own developmental pace. We use teaching strategies that address learning styles specific to boys. We understand the different and complex worlds of young boys and young men preparing for university or life after College. We strive to support each individual's needs and aspirations.

We seek first to build good men

In addition to pursuing high academic achievement, we prioritise wellbeing, developing resilience and empathy, and helping to ensure that each boy achieves his best. However, none is more important than the essential goal of building good character and, by extension of helping each boy and young man make responsible choices and live an honourable life. Our commitment to character is seen here in our focus on the Christ's College Graduate.

We know that boys develop and learn in different ways

It's a simple fact that boys and girls grow at a different pace. Boys' strengths are different from those of girls. While girls generally develop earlier physically and socially, refining their reading and writing skills sooner, boys are more spatial and visual by nature, and they demonstrate a natural affinity for areas like abstract mathematics. They are also hard-wired to learn more easily through action than words.

We teach in ways that boys learn best

Our teachers have made a conscious choice to teach boys. They enjoy boys' irreverent humour and draw energy from their natural exuberance. At College, our teachers take into consideration the interests and talents unique to boys when they prepare each lesson.

We help boys discover and explore their full potential

Without the pressure of a co-ed environment, students in an all-boys school can explore the full range of their personalities and potential. Eschewing stereotypes, they discover they have many roles to play as a scholar, athlete, artist, musician and friend.

We enable boys to foster lifelong friendships

Working together in the classroom, on the playing field, or in a performance, students are united by a special bond of brotherhood. Christ's College Graduates say the friendships they develop with their peers are among the most important benefits they carry with them from College.

One of the important advantages of a boys-only education is the opportunity it presents to create a learning environment, literally and figuratively, that accommodates what boys and young men need.