Student News

Yr 10 Art

Last week, students in Ms Moar's Year 10 Art class have been exploring the process contemporary artist, Amanda Marburg, uses in the creation of her work. Like Marburg, they recreated a “less than accurate” model of a famous artwork using plasticine. They then photographed their model and students are now applying traditional oil painting techniques to very accurately depict their photographs.

International Women's Day

St Brigid's College is very fortunate to have a number of women on staff as role models for our students, as well as our two School Captains and two School Vice Captains.

Larissa has taken some time to reflect on what it means to her to be a female leader in 2023.

"To me, International Women's Day is about celebrating female empowerment and what women have accomplished throughout history and continue to accomplish present day. Being a leader should have nothing to do with a person's gender, and everything to do with what they want to accomplish in this world.

To be a leader at this school gives me great satisfaction and happiness to represent the school in a positive way, and to be a role model for younger girls to look up to. To be a voice to represent female values and views gives me pride as we are now finally in a society where women can be leaders and are valued the same as male leaders.

To all students of the school I would encourage them to have courage and to speak up when no one else has a voice, and to always strive for excellence and never let themselves think they are worthy of anything less."

And from Rory,

"On International Women's Day, I reflect on the progress society has made to overcome gender inequality and how women's voices and leadership have contributed in shaping our world. Without the women of the past, who have fought for our rights, it would never have been a possibility for the school to have four female leaders.

I’m grateful for the opportunity to represent the school as a young woman, and be a role model that the younger girls of the school can look up to.

To all students coming up through the school, there is no limit to what you can accomplish. Accept nothing but the best for yourself and never allow adversity to bring you down. Challenge what you don’t believe and stand up for what you do. Have a good IWD."

VCE Creative Arts

Recently our students who are completing Creative Arts subjects for VCE Unit 1 – 4 including Drama, Media, Visual Communication and Design and Art Creative Practice attended a VCE Creative Arts Day at Horsham Town Hall. Hosted by the Horsham Regional Art Gallery’s SPARK Arts Education Program, students were given the opportunity to participate in workshops and hear from presenters who were practicing artists, university lecturers, teachers involved the development of VCAA Study Designs, VCAA exam assessors, and in the selection of student work for TOP Designs exhibition panel.

Students received coursework and exam advice, tips on how to achieve a high scoring folio and techniques to think creatively, critically, and reflectively. Students made art works, explored careers in art and practiced key knowledge and skills from their subject Study Designs. Most importantly our students were able to access opportunities they would normally have to travel to Melbourne to experience, and they could connect with other creative arts students from schools across the Wimmera and beyond.

What's been happening in the STEAM Building

Our STEAM Building is the home of many exciting classes and activities that happen at St Brigid's College. Here's an insight into some recent activities!

Smart Artz

Smart Artz Theatre Company is excited to present its latest production, Shuddersome: Tales of Poe.

Spectres, ghosts and ghouls will come alive in this vivid theatrical adaptation of some of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works — including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Bells, The Raven, The Oval Portrait and The Masque of the Red Death. The production, a play, scheduled for April 23, is part of the official program for the 2023 Wimmera Steampunk Festival in Dimboola. It will be presented in the historical Star Theatre.

“It’s a beautiful theatre and the perfect venue to house this production. The way we use the space will be quite unusual and unexpected though,” director Larissa Riddell said.“As a theatre company we definitely strive to challenge ourselves to produce different works for our audiences. It’s good to keep people wondering about what we’ll do next.“

Shuddersome is the sort of play you can really push yourself creatively and I love that.”

Our students, Bailey Eder (Year 10), Scarlett Munday Terry (Year 11) and staff member Mr Timothy Weber are proudly part of this production and would love to see you in the audience on the weekend of April 22nd and 23rd.