Victorian SRC Student Voice Workshop

My experience at the Victorian SRC Student Voice Workshop was very beneficial and interesting. It was good to hear other people's ideas and thoughts on what leadership is, and some different ways to be a leader. Having only a couple of schools at this conference enabled us to bond and encouraged us to step out of our comfort zones. We talked about ways to deal with problems at your school and solve the issues. We talked about wanting to become a more environmentally friendly school and ways we will try to turn this thought into a reality. This idea ended up winning the competition! Overall, I think this was a great and really fun experience as it gave us the chance to become better leaders and ways to tackle problems in our school.

Amy Sin 9D

International Women’s Day Breakfast –Mentone Girls’ Grammar

On Thursday 8 March, Issy Pilcher -College Vice Captain, Kate McMahon -SRC President and Emily James - representative from the VCE committee and I attended an International Women’s Day breakfast held at Mentone Girls’ Grammar School. We arrived at 7am with a warm welcome from the leaders of Mentone Girls’ Grammar and were directed to the food hall, where we found a large variety of breakfast foods. As we enjoyed our meal, we listened to a panel of three inspiring women; a firefighter, an entrepreneur and a businesswoman. They shared advice on how to succeed and thrive as a woman in workplaces dominated by men. Their speech’s motivated us all to strive for our potential and prove to the world how strong and independent women are and what we can achieve!

Sally Walker

College Captain

Student Leadership Training Day

Last Monday, some 120 students participated in the Student Leadership Training Day held at the College. Nia Holdenson from Melbourne University Graduate School of Education and formerly from Melbourne Girls' College assisted us with presenting the days activities. The focus of the day was on “If we always do what we have always done, then we will always get what we have always got”.

All students completed a PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting) at the end of the day and the response was overwhelming positive. Much was learned during the day about the direction student leadership at MGSC might take in the future, and certainly, how such days could be further improved.

Many goals were brainstormed and various teams acquired display board spaces around the school enabling them to communicate visually with the whole school.

The highlight of the day was observing collaboration across the college, with students brought together not by year level but by like-minded ideas and interests.

International Women’s Day Assembly

We congratulated all our student leaders presenting them with their badges at the International Women’s Day assembly. Guest presenter Professor Belinda Gabbe, a former student (1985-1990) spoke with passion about her journey and some of the influences in forging her career. Belinda was inducted into the Honour Roll for Women of 2018, just last week.

Group photos of not only leadership groups but also Primary School groupings was a fun way to end the morning. This information will be shared back with the Primary schools as a ‘where are they now’ further reinforcing the links between ourselves and our many feeder schools.

Ms Wendy Harvey

Director of Student Leadership & Engagement

2018 Student Leaders

College Captain: Sally Walker

Vice Captain: Isabel Pilcher

Vice Captain: Ruby Crofts

SRC President: Kate McMahon

VCE Committee

Emily James

Keina Sugeta

Ella Grapel

Chelsey Reindel

Madeleine McAllister

Kate McMahon

Caitlin Morris

Lauren Bentley

Natalie Desylva

Isabella Jacques

Chloe Macaulay

Alexandra Webb

SRC Committee

Kate McMahon (President)

Grace De Gregorio

Jemma Hunt

Zoe O'Neill

Samantha Cattermole

Abby Manning

Libby McQuiston

Joanna Angeletos

Ailish Byrne

Nazanin Jalali

Isla McAllister

Maia Lafferty

Amy Sin

Elise Coward

Isabella Donat

Charlotte Fitzsimmons

Cassidy Jackson

Derinsu Bulut

Giselle Ciurej

Lily Gibbon

Hannah Ross

Middle School Leaders

Sinead Garry

Nazanin Jalali

Adeena Kashif

Tereza Nebevsky

Ashli Sali

Zoe Vogelsang

Lily West

Carrie Xie

Class Captains

Zoe Nesci 8A

Hope Maillard 8B

Samantha Martin 8C

Daniella Chryssafis 8D

Natalia Borek 8E

Charlotte Stokes 8F

Chanisa Thomson 8G

Madalyn Warch 8H

Mia Drummond 8I

Irene Lambrou 7A

Charlotte Badley 7B

Lucinda Tallar-Villegos 7C

Chloe Shovelar 7D

Sarah Pilcher 7E

Dana Bahlieda 7F

Maddy Hall 7G

House Leaders

Jackson

Sapphire Harrison-Corney (Junior)

Eva Cutts House (Middle )

Olivia Jaconelli Senior Music

Emma Nicholson Senior Sport

Kenny

Lucy Walker (Junior)

Daisy Walker (Middle)

Meg Meyerheinrich (Senior Music)

Madeleine McAllister (Senior Sport)

MacKellar

Jordyn Murphy (Junior )

Charlie Anderson (Middle)

Sophie White (Senior Music)

Tash Belleville (Senior Sport )

Melba

Mia Schroen (Junior)

Mikala Clarke (Middle)

Alex Byrne (Senior Sport)

Tessa Baird (Senior Music)

Music

Ebony Anderson 12

Olivia Jaconelli 12

Emma Hicks

Amethyst Parlanti

Madeleine Salisbury

Dasha Semianenko

Navneet Bataan

April Thomas

Drama

Emily James 12

Tessa Baird 12

Isabella Cree

Hannah Healy

Gemma Maguire

Kira McArdle

Emily Howells

Mia Cramond

Cassidy Jackson

Sophie Maltarollo

Domain Leaders

Curriculum

Kelly Jenkins

Diane Luo

Aulani McNeilly

Katrina Oyarzun

Aditri Vemula

International

Alice Gibson

Shirley Shi

EAL

Vicky Cheng

Tiffany Hii

English

Giselle Ciurej

Aoife Funke

Amy Hodson

Emma Morley

French

Cassidy Jackson

Jess Marquis

Molly Nadj

Japanese

Eleena Chang

Sarah Elms

Pariya Jalali

Maisie Taylor

Health & PE

Charli Hall

Mia Bayley

Lucy Belleville

Megan Blignaut

Cara Jenkins

Acelya Ozcoban

Jemmah Paton

Humanities

Ebony Biar

Samantha Cattermole

STEAM

Lizzie Honeybone

Julia Le Domain

Izzy Pfundt

Sustainability

Camryn Grossi

Anita Lor

Shannon McFadries

Natalie Stewart

Technology

Skye Ferguson

Visual Arts

Hailey Bartholomew

Olivia Gryszan

Heidi-Sienna Jane

Gabrielle Misa

Michaela Oliver

Deneka Xavier

Mathematics

Sarisha Dhawan

Alexandra Gibbins

Samantha Hooper

Punyawee MJ Liu

Michelle Taneja

Erin Yesilagac

Science

Katie Barnshaw

Indiana Budimer

Amber Cook

Harini Geetha Ashok Balaji

Emily Howells

Sarah Killeen

Year 10 Peer Support

Lily Adams

Bonnie Appleby

Chloe Bensberg-Corcoran

Ailish Byrne

Mikala Clarke

Bianca Currie

Ruby De Graves

Sarah Dorman

Manaal El-Jari

Natasha Ford

Maya Gherini

Hannah Healy

Keely Hemphill

Nazanin Jalali

Hayley Keating

Chloe King

Eva Kovac

Madi Lalor

Diane Luo

Isla McAllister

Liv McGillivray

Sophie Oxley

Katrina Oyarzun

Emily Ryan

Saachi Shenoy

Vanessa Slamin

Hayley Thompson

Natasha Toliopoulos

Jamie Torcasio

Ainsley Van Camp

Daisy Walker

Molly Warner

Laura White

Magazine Committee

Catriona Sanderson (Editor)

Izzy Pfundt

Nicola Reeves

Christina Copeland

Isabel Schweitzer

Nazanin Jalali

Katrina Oyarzun

Sinead Garry

Samantha Hooper

Emily Howells

Freya Barry

Molly Farrer

Chloe Shovelar

Ashani Thenanennadi

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