Student Leadership
Student Leadership Conference (SLC) held by Alliance of Girls’ Schools, Sydney – January 13-15 2019
SLC 2019 is an annual leadership conference for girls organised by the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia. This year was the 20th conference that has been run, with attendees from all states of Australia as well as New Zealand, the Philippines, America and Zimbabwe. Meg, Georgia and myself represented Melbourne Girls College in Sydney in January 2019.
It was a jam-packed experience with 168 girls attending and staying at the University of Sydney’s Women’s residential college. Although there were many new faces and girls to introduce yourself to, the conference had a warm, welcoming atmosphere and maintained a positive upbeat energy that manifested itself into a sense of inspiration and empowerment as we completed the conference’s activities.
It was a packed agenda with many key note speakers, notably: Hayley Talbot, who in 2017 was the first person to solo kayak the 400km Clarence river; Annabelle Chauncy, who started a multinational NGO, School for Life, which has three schools in Uganda with an outreach of more than 2000 people; and Christy Hildyard, who through her organisation, Grace Pads, employs local women in Malawi to produce Menstrual Hygiene kits, reaching over 4000 girls.
We left the conference with a sense of vigour and excitement for the year to come and our term as school captains. We are so grateful for the opportunity to lead the school community this year and we will persevere to leave a positive impact within the school. We left Sydney inspired to do so and felt that we had been fortunate to acquire some knowledge to aid us on this journey by attending the conference.
Georgia, Meg and Gen
A message from your College Captains
We hope you all had a wonderful and restful break and are excited for the year to come!
To all our year 7s and new students, welcome, we hope that you find MGC inviting and inclusive, and if at any point in this transition period, you need some guidance, feel free to send us an email!
For everyone else, welcome back! We are super excited to see you all again, and to see what amazing things you all have in store for the year.
Other than saying hello, we’re just emailing to let you know that if you have any problems, questions, ideas or anything of that sort, please email us!
We really want to work with as many of you as possible throughout this year. Our job is to make your time at MGC as incredible as possible. We’re always up for a chat, or a quick hello in the corridor too!
Some key dates to put in your diary for Term 1:
- Friday 22nd Feb: The Pedal Powered Cinema (afterschool)
- Tuesday 26th Feb: Badge Presentation Assembly (this will take place during the first 30 mins of Period 1 and will NOT be an assembly day timetable)
- Wednesday 27th Feb: Athletics Carnival
- Monday 4th March: Thursday 7th March: International Women’s Day celebrations (more details to come)
- Wednesday 20th March: Harmony Day whole school assembly (this WILL be an assembly day timetable)
Looking forward to the year ahead!
Your college co-captains,
Meg Funston, Genevieve Cox and Georgia Wolfe