Granville Boys High School offers extracurricular literacy and numeracy programs. Literacy and numeracy knowledge and skills are essential foundations for learning, educational attainment, personal enrichment, social interaction and future employment. Literate and numerate students better understand and negotiate their world and are able to actively participate in all aspects of society as ethical and informed citizens.
Reading Program
In Term 1 2024 Granville Boys High School introduced the Reading Program. Students are expected to bring in a book to read every day for the first 15 minutes of period 2 as a part of our strategy to improve their skills in reading and literacy.
Youth Leadership Program - Toastmasters International
Granville Boys High School engages in Toastmasters International's Youth Leadership Program. Toastmasters International is a not for profit training organisation that focuses on communication and leadership development.
As a part of the Youth Leadership Program, on Tuesdays students engage in public speaking workshops to develop their communication and leadership skills through practical experience.
In the workshop, our students learn how to:
- evaluate their own speaking ability
- prepare and deliver speeches
- give impromptu talks
- control their voice, vocabulary, and gestures
- give constructive feedback and more.
Extended Writing Program
Granville Boys High School offers an Extended Writing Program in the form of a Writing Skills Workbook for students in Stage 4 (Year 7 and Year 8) and Stage 5 (Year 9 and Year 10).
The Writing Skills Workbook contains short answer questions, peer marking process, practice activities and questions to help develop the students' skills in grammar, voculabulary, spelling, sentence construction, stucture, research, clarity and persuasiveness.
