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Documentary 2021

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Follow the lives of seven students who spend a year boarding at one of the oldest and most elite boarding schools in the country, Geelong Grammar.

Documentary 2021

PG

Starring Sunny Handy, Xyz King, Chloe King

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

As the 2020 school year starts at the prestigious Geelong Grammar School, Indigenous students travel thousands of kilometres interstate, leaving their families and homes behind.

26 min · 7 July 2022 PG
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Xyz, Chloe and Marlley face personal challenges as the school year begins, and must leave boarding school and return home; Jaycee travels home to her Aboriginal mission in regional Victoria.

25 min · 14 July 2022 PG
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Students face the ups and downs of remote learning after COVID-19 shuts the school down; Tahlia appreciates being closer to her family in Darwin; Sunny feels more pressure about his Year 12 exams.

24 min · 21 July 2022 PG
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

The Year 12 exams begin in Geelong; Xyz King begins the infamous Timbertop final marathon; Marlley does not return to school from Broome.

24 min · 28 July 2022 PG

Sunny Handy

Self
Xyz King

Self
Chloe King

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Marlley McNamara

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Tahlia See

Self

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DOCUMENTARY

Follow the lives of seven students who spend a year boarding at one of the oldest and most elite boarding schools in the country, Geelong Grammar.

Information

Studio: Special Broadcasting Service
Released: 2021
Rated: PG

Languages

Original Audio: English (Australia)
Audio: English