Grandparents and Special Friends Day was held on the last day of Term 1 at Townsville Grammar School’s Annandale Campus. The day invites Junior School students’ grandparents and special friends back to school for the morning. Grandparents and special friends arrived in droves, many from other cities, a number from interstate and even some from overseas, to be a part of this day with their grandchildren.
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gr ammarian Guests enjoyed a classroom visit, morning tea and then were treated to a concert of musical items, featuring every student on the Annandale Campus.
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Olympic swimmers visit Although you might not know Glenn’s name, his swimming Townsville Grammar achievements include many things, most notably his representation
of Australia at both Olympic and Commonwealth levels, winning a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Glenn is also is one of only four platinum standard swimming coaches in Australia.
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E tgs@tgs.qld.edu.au www.tgs.qld.edu.au at the Swim@Grammar trainingWsession at the TGS Pool. Alicia Coutts, James Roberts and Olympic coach, John Fowlie, visited to talk to the swimmers as well as sign some autographs.
TGS student and potential future Olympian, Regan Leong, was Opening doors photographed with the Olympians and Kokoda Spirit coach, Glenn since 1888 Beringen. Regan, having recently returned from the Olympic trials in Adelaide, shared stories about personal bests with James, who was suitably impressed, given the times which Regan is achieving as a sixteen year old.
ANNUAL FOOD DRIVE Grammar donates record breaking amount of canned food
NEWS OF PAST GRAMMARIANS Weddings, births and more
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Meet our mother-daughter teaching teams
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