“Based on developing close links with the local indigenous community and regional indigenous communities, the programme aims to maximise a relationship between the School and the community, and allow for a succession of students from the same community to come to Knox, thus making it easier for future boys to come, and also enhancing the boys as role models in their communities. The communities themselves play a large part in selecting the boys, and work with the school in doing so; this also helps to develop and maintain a sense of mutual responsibility and accountability on the part of both community and school.

Currently we have established links with the Shoalhaven Community, centred on the mid-south coat of NSW and with the Karuah / Tea Gardens communities on the mid-north coast. We have boys from both communities at the school at present.

In addition, boys from the local indigenous community have become part of the programme, and are attending the school.

Once enrolled, the boys participate in the full life of the School, academically, culturally, and in co-curricular activities such as sport. Those who are boarders, such as Kayleb Hawkins and Drew Luland, the first Australian Children’s Trust scholarship recipients at Knox, participate fully in our Whole of Life, Outdoor Education and Mentoring programs.” – Martin Gooding, Knox Grammar School