Leadership

VASGSC Year 8 Friendship Day

We are not a team because we work together, we are a team because we respect, trust and care for each other

On Thursday 14 June, 11 of the Year 8 leaders participated in the Leadership Day hosted at our school. There were five schools in total including ours -  Melbourne Girls’ College, Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College, Pascoe Vale Girls College, Gilmore College for Girls and Mentone Girls’ Secondary College.

Participants completed three activities.  One was called “A jar full of dreams” which was where we decorated a mason jar and at the end of the day we wrote a friendly note and placed it in another jar so everyone had a kind note in their jar. Another was the “Friendly Amazing Race” where we went around the school finding clues and letters and by the end of the race we used the letters to create the word LEADERSHIP. The final activity was the “Ad for a Friend” where we created an iMovie and included all the qualities that we believed were good in a friends. The five qualities that my group did were respect, kindness, trust, caring and loyalty.

At the beginning of the day we listened to a guest speaker, Dr Romy Zyngier, a female scientist who recently came back from Antarctica. Dr Zyngier had quite an experience. She encouraged us all to follow our passion and do what we think will make an improvement in the world. Overall, l the whole day was fun and everyone enjoyed it very much. We all enjoyed lunch together and everyone had a good laugh. Everyone made friends with people from the other schools and had a very good time.

Many thanks to Ms Harvey for organising the event because we enjoyed it very much.

Elise Coward, SRC, 8G

MGSC students who participated in the Year 8 Friendship Day were Elise Coward, Mia Drummond, Rhini Geetha Ashok Balaji, Cassidy Jackson, Kelly Jenkins, Hope Maillard, Samantha Martin, Aulani McNeilly, Mia Schroen, Charlotte Stokes and Chani Thomson.

Thanks to Ms Milliken and Ms Parker for their assistance and support with this event.

VASGSC Year 10 Conference

This week two Year 10 student leaders, Tereza Nebesky and Ashli Sali travelled to The Mac. Robertson Girls’ High to attend the first of two planning days for the VASGSC Year 10 Conference to be held in September. A group of 15 students from MGSC will make-up the team working with students leaders from the other State Girls' schools.

Student Leaders from Years 11 and 12 have been invited to attend an afternoon leadership workshop on Wednesday 26 June at Strathcona in Canterbury. Students wanting to take up this opportunity need to return the consent forms to Ms Harvey by Monday please.

Ms Wendy Harvey

Director of Student Leadership & Engagement