Student Life

Gardeners Road has evolved from a Primary School, Technical School, Home Science School to a Primary School with an Inclusive Unit. 

Here are some archival photographs of the students who attended Gardeners Road during this time. 

Recollections From Past Students

Sport at Gardeners Road Public School

Our original sports house teams and colours were Macquarie (Red), Wentworth (Green) , Phillip (Blue) and Cook (Yellow). These houses were named after famous Governors, Explorers and Figures of early colonial NSW. 

Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, and had a leading role in the social, economic, and architectural development of the colony. 

William Charles Wentworth (August 1790 – 20 March 1872) was an Australian statesman, pastoralist, explorer, newspaper editor, lawyer, politician and author, who became one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures of early colonial New South Wales. 

Arthur Phillip was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales. Phillip was educated at Greenwich Hospital School from June 1751 until December 1753. He then became an apprentice on the whaling ship Fortune.  

Captain James Cook FRS was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.  

In 2023 our school made the decision to change our sports houses to the Aboriginal Totems of our area.