Pre-Conference School Visit Program

Wednesday, 7 October 2026

0900-1215
Offsite visits

Take the opportunity while in Perth to sign up to one of the optional school tours, providing insight into what your independent sector colleagues are up to in their schools.

Places on these tours are strictly limited and often book out. Please select the tour you wish to attend when completing your online registration.

Transfers to and from the schools will operate from Crown Towers Perth. Site Tours are included in a full registration but limited to the first 30 registrations per tour.

Tour 1

St Mary's Anglican Girls' School
St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School was founded 105 years ago and moved to a 16-hectare site in Karrinyup in the 1960s. The School is rejuvenating its 1960s campus to incorporate contemporary learning spaces aligned to its strategic plan. This tour will focus on the three-storey Creative Arts and Design Centre completed in 2024, and the three-storey Science, Enterprise, Technology and Innovation (SETI) Centre which is under construction. While on the tour, the Principal and School Executive members will speak on the masterplan principles, the alignment to our School Strategic Plan, and the vision for contemporary classrooms to serve generations of St Mary’s students.

Hale School 
Founded in 1858, Hale School provides a tailored educational experience for boys from Pre-Primary to Year 12 on a spacious 48-hectare campus. Visitors will see the school’s state-of-the-art facilities, including the aquatic centre, engineering suites, music auditorium and boarding houses. The tour will highlight Hale’s purpose-designed Year 7 learning precinct, where the traditional Middle School model has been reimagined to support boys as they transition into senior schooling. Guests will also view the architecturally distinctive Junior School (opened in 2018), the new performing arts spaces incorporating House Homes and Media Studies, and the innovative Living Room attached to the Health Centre, showcasing best practice in student wellbeing support. The experience concludes with a look at the newly renovated Senior Boarding House and dedicated Year 7 boarding facilities.

Tour 2

Carmel School 
Founded in 1959, Carmel School is Perth’s only Jewish Day School and a private Modern Orthodox Jewish school offering both Jewish religious and cultural education alongside a comprehensive secular program for students from Kindergarten to Year 12. This tour provides insight into Carmel’s distinctive dual-curriculum model and the role the school plays within the wider Jewish community. Visitors will also have the opportunity to explore the Holocaust Museum located within the community precinct. Subject to interest, the program may also include a guided visit to a local synagogue, offering further cultural and contextual understanding for AHISA members.

Guildford Grammar School 
Guildford Grammar School is a leading coeducational Anglican day and boarding school for students from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12. Set across more 78 hectares on the banks of the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River), the School’s historic campus provides a distinctive learning environment where heritage, natural landscape and contemporary education come together.

Visitors will experience how the School makes purposeful use of its remarkable grounds to support learning beyond the classroom. In the Preparatory School, the Bush School program invites students into the natural environment to explore, inquire and connect with the world around them. Through regular time outdoors, students develop curiosity, confidence and a deep respect for the environment while strengthening creativity and problem-solving skills.

Outdoor learning continues throughout the School as a core part of the Guildford Grammar experience. Through structured Outdoor Learning Programs and experiences both on campus and beyond, students engage in challenge, reflection and shared experiences that build resilience, leadership and a strong sense of belonging. These opportunities form an integrated part of the School’s approach to learning and pastoral care, supporting the development of capable, grounded and community-minded young people.

As part of the visit, participants will take part in a Bush School session, offering a firsthand insight into how nature-based learning is embedded within the program. This experience will demonstrate how outdoor environments are used intentionally to support inquiry and wellbeing.

Tour 3

Christ Church Grammar School 

Established in 1910, Christ Church Grammar School is a Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12 Anglican day and boarding school for boys in Perth, Western Australia. With more than 1700 students, its Preparatory School caters for boys from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 6, and its Senior School for boys in Years 7 to 12. Boys from Years 7 to 12 can attend as day students or boarders.

Christ Church has a long and proud history in educational achievement, and with consistently strong academic results is one of the best performing, non-selective schools in the country.

Methodist Ladies’ College 
MLC is an all-girls boarding and day school in the western suburbs of Perth. It caters for more than 1,100 girls from Pre-K-12 including 90 boarders. Junior years enjoy specialist sport, music, drama, dance, chinese and art classes while senior year students access an academic centre with specialist tutors.

Iona Presentation College 
Iona Presentation College is an independent Catholic school located in Mosman Park, Perth, providing education from early learning through to Year 12. Founded in 1907 by the Presentation Sisters, the College offers co-education in the early learning and primary years, and an all-girls environment from Year 7 to Year 12. This tour will feature the striking Sr Albeus Fahey Building, a four-storey centrepiece of the Senior Campus. Purpose-built to support contemporary teaching and learning, the facility places a strong emphasis on arts, design and innovation while thoughtfully honouring the College’s Presentation heritage and the story of founder Nano Nagle. Visitors will see how the architectural themes of the Agora, the Crossing and the Lantern shape the learning environment, and how the design responds sensitively to the site’s natural terrain and surrounding buildings to create a cohesive and future-focused educational precinct.

Tour 4

Scotch College 
Scotch College is situated on 50 hectares in the western suburbs of Perth. It has approximately 1,500 boys across K-12, including approximately 170 boarders. Scotch is an IB College and a member of the Round Square group of schools. Scotch is known for its innovation, including its specialist facilities across junior, middle and senior schools which are designed to enhance student learning.

John XXIII College 
John XXIII College is a Catholic, independent, co-educational day school located in Mount Claremont, Perth, offering education from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12 to approximately 1,600 students. This school visit will include a short tour followed by a presentation in the College’s new staff common space on leadership strategies designed to future-proof the College. The session will explore the College’s Professional Growth Model and HALT program, with particular emphasis on the leadership structures and resourcing decisions that underpin both initiatives.

Tour 5

The Studio School

Different by Design: Alternative model of education with real world pathways and partnerships through The Studio School Fremantle. 

Join us for an information session a tour, designed for educators curious about alternative models of education. Explore how The Studio School Fremantle’s industry-connected approach is delivering strong outcomes for students who thrive outside traditional schooling environments. We’ll share our students’ success, showcase our formal partnership with the University of Notre Dame Australia and the university pathways it creates for our graduates, and highlight the broad range of tertiary, vocational, and career pathways our students are pursuing.