Camberwell Grammar

Camberwell Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day school for boys, located in Canterbury, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Camberwell Church of England Grammar School was founded in 1886. In its early years, the school was housed at a number of sites in and around the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria. It has occupied its present site on Mont Albert Road on Canterbury's Golden Mile, since 1935. In 2011, it celebrated the 125th year anniversary of its establishment in 1886.The school currently has around 1600 students. The school is divided into three sections – Junior School (Prep – Year 5), Middle School (Year 6 – Year 8) and Senior School (Year 9 – Year 12).The school has eight houses, named Derham, Macneil, Robinson, Summons, Bridgland, Schofield, Clifford and Steven. The house colours are red, yellow, emerald green, blue, sky blue, magenta, orange and royal blue respectively.HistoryIn 2004, the H.R. McDonald Library and Humanities building replaced the old library block. The building includes a two storey library, seventeen classrooms and a ceramics studio.In 2007, the new Middle School, VCE, Careers and Counselling offices were opened. The new Middle School building was named the William Angliss building.At the beginning of 2013, the new Senior School building, the Wheelton Centre, was completed. It includes the new science department and science laboratories, a lecture theatre, language centres, computer pods and a new Year 12 Common Room. The new building also houses a revamped IT Center responsible for the maintenance of the school's computer network and re-imaging students' laptop computers. Currently, the school chooses to support both Windows and Macintosh computers, in the hope of diversifying the student body's current preferences. This building has replaced the Old Angliss Building, which stood for over 90 years.