Suva Grammar School

In May the British colonial government decided to resume land next to the Carnegie Library in order to build a new school. In the same year the first construction began for the new school.

The new Boys Grammar School was officially opened on 8 July. Originally, the school was established to cater for European boys, British in particular. The school used the New Zealand secondary school curriculum. Teaching staff were brought in from England, Australia, and New Zealand. The school catered for both day scholars and boarders.

The building in Selbourne St. which housed the Suva Public School from 1883 became the Girls Grammar School. Subsequently, some timber buildings were built across the road as the administration and classroom buildings, and this building became the Girls' Hostel.

During early 1923 there were plans to develop a new playground. The objective was to provide space for the scholars to play and carry out leisure activities which included sports, training and exercises.

During early 1930, there were plans to further extend the school building. Prior to the end of this year, the Boys Grammar School building was successfully extended towards the sea.  Over the next decade there were many discussions about relocating the school as the building could not cater for the increasing number of students attending the school.

Temporary buildings were constructed at a new proposed site. It was located between the school and the Grand Pacific Hotel. It was the space which was later occupied by the Fiji Travel Lodge.

After the temporary building was built in 1940, teaching and school life of Boys Grammar School was slowing moving to its new temporary site. This new site were known to old boys at Boys Grammar School as the ‘reclamation’ because it was roughly built as a temporary site. Over the next decade, Boys Grammar School and Girls Grammar School discussed merging and relocating to a single site. The ideal location suggested by the Board of Education was Nasese.

Both Boys and Girls Grammar Schools moved to their new location and was renamed Suva Grammar School. Since 1960, its students have included non-European students from all over Fiji.