New England Girls School and St Johns Co-Educational Junior School aim to develop accomplished, educated individuals with active, passionate and creative minds. Respect and compassion for others and the courage to act on their beliefs are developed within a Christian ethos. Throughout the 115 year history of the School, NEGS has been renowned for its superb setting; its ability to attract students from all corners of the continent and overseas; its internationalism expressed through such organisations as Round Square; its ability to meet the needs of all individual students in a caring and happy environment; its extensive pastoral care programs; its dedicated staff, many of whom gave loyal and diligent service over many decades; its expansive extracurricular program; its unique architecture; its preparedness to experiment with various educational structures including adventures into transition and junior schools; its outstanding School Certificate and Higher School Certificate results; and the retention of the traditions and values which remain basically unchanged despite the passing of time. Within these parameters the School, under its dignified and disparate principals has never lost sight of its focal point - the student.