Courtesy at Trinity Grammar School

A good School provides an ordered and courteous environment for all the people who are part of its community. Fundamental to this is an attitude of respect. This attitude will manifest itself in courteous behaviour and in care for the physical environment. The following principles are worth noting:

1. Adults and children should treat each other with mutual respect.
2. Good manners should be identified with strength of character.
3. Courteous behaviour and attitudes should be consistent, no matter what the circumstances or people involved.

General Principles

1. At the beginning of each lesson students should remain standing to be greeted by their teacher.
2. Classes should stand to greet visitors to the room.
3. Students should defer to adults when proceeding in passages, corridors and through doors.
4. Students are expected to address adults using their title and surname, or to address men as “Sir” and women as “Ma’am”.
5. If approached for help, students must conduct visitors to the School to their destination.
6. When waiting for a service to begin in the War Memorial or Preparatory School Chapel, students must remain quiet and prepare themselves in heart and mind.
7. Trinity Grammar School home teams should assume a responsibility as hosts.
8. If a formal invitation includes the letters R.S.V.P. it is essential that the person invited responds to that invitation.

It is expected that parents will assist the School in teaching good manners.