Student Leadership

L   Learning Together

E   Empowering Others

A    Achieving Goals

D   Discovering Potential

EAL Leader, Senior School 

I am Annie, an EAL leader of the Senior School. I joined this big loveable family last year, but the passion and love of mine for this amazing school is no less than anyone else's. As an international student, I know exactly what culture shock is like and how Australia as a friendly, diverse country has given us all this help and care. I understand the difficulties students who have different cultural backgrounds are going to face, but the most important thing that always fills my heart is the endless thankfulness and gratitude to my friends and teachers who selflessly give me so much help and love. In this very last year of my high school life, I really want to actually take action and contribute my own power to the school I love and make other students feel the kindness that I feel. I will try my best to make our school a more beautiful place.

Annie Zhou (Year 12)

EAL Leader, Middle School 

My name is Hanwen Liu and I am honoured to be an EAL leader. I have been at Mentone Girls' Secondary College for half a year and have found that our school is inclusive. I'm allowed to make mistakes and correct them, and to learn and grow happily. The teachers and students are all awesome and enthusiastic. I like sports such as swimming and cycling and I love art, music, reading and playing the piano.

English as an additional language (EAL) refers to the learners' first language not being English. I believe study should be associated with interests and we should study and participate in recreation together. As an EAL leader, I will unite classmates, learn efficiently with them, and I will communicate with teachers and students. This year I want to organise some interesting and useful cultural activities. Let us study through playing. Hope all of you enjoy school-time.

Hanwen Liu (Year 10)

GRIP Leadership Conference

Earlier this month selected Middle and Senior school leaders attended the GRIP Leadership Conference at Melbourne Convention Centre, alongside a number of students from a variety of Melbourne-based schools. 

The conference focused on nurturing confident, thoughtful and team-oriented leaders through guided discussion and team building exercises.

The themes that were discussed included the importance of communication, empathy, trust and support in a community in order to lead efficiently. The event encouraged us to evaluate ourselves as leaders and to find and work on our weaknesses.

The conference offered electives, such as how to grow student involvement in group events and offered opportunities to speak to fellow leaders to exchange ideas and stories from our schools.

A number of ideas and strategies were shared with us, from techniques used by world famous leaders and demonstrations of strong leadership in film, as well as events developed by other schools that have helped enhance their school spirit.

The day was broken up by group activities and games run by Loud Noises, a fun and energetic duo that offered a break from the content of the lecture. The duo used engaging and humorous games that taught important skills such as trust, teamwork, and encouragement that allowed us to get to know other leaders.

Overall, Ruby and I found the day to be engaging and very encouraging to us as leaders who are developing our skills, and it has given us so many new ideas that put our fellow students first with their best interests in mind.

We are so excited to put our new skills to the test!

Amethyst Parlanti

College Captain

World Vision Youth Conference

Last year, a large group of our students attended the World Vision Youth Conference and many went on to lead MGSC’s efforts with the Backpack Challenge.  This year's conference is at the World Conference Centre on 23 May. The focus of the conference is building leadership skills and developing student ability to make change happen. A group of up to 20 students will be able to attend this year.

Please let Ms Harvey or Ms Sharpe know if you are interested.

A reminder to all student leaders to regularly check emails and team classroom for important notices.

Wendy Harvey

Director of Student Leadership & Engagement