School News

Cross Country

MGC had 20 students qualify for the state finals of the cross country last Thursday 14th July. Lily Jepson and Mary Higginbotham ran excellent races in the Girls 13 event, as did Sunny Spencer and Eliza Hughes in the Girls 14 event. Sunny came 5th overall in the state, a fantastic result. Our Girls 15 team of Bella Niven-Brown, Emily Cumming, Venezia Naylor, Liv mason and Molly Sharrock just missed on a place coming in 4th. Nina Carden also competed well as an individual in this event.

The girls 17-20 team consisting of Maddie Carmen, Niamh Shawyer, Selina Gauder, Annie Vasili and Jess Brommeyer also finished 4th in their event. It was Niamh's and Selina's last cross country run for the school after competing since year 7 and it will be sad not to have them around next year. Our Girls 16 three times state champion team were devastated to miss out this year by just TWO PLACES! Annie Coleman, Emily Mizis, Annie Umseher, Zara Guss and Lara Davie came in second in the team event, with Emily running a great race to finish 4th overall. I am sure that this will motivate them to win their crown back next year. Thanks to Ms T for her help and motivation again this year and all of the wonderful girls who compete in this event.

 

Mr Clarke

Is Blood Thicker Than Water?

Earlier this year the Year 11 students were asked to develop a creative writing piece connected to the text ‘Foreign Soil’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke. The standard was exceedingly high, but one piece in particular stood out. Without the author’s knowledge, I sent this piece through to a magazine called Peril – a publication that focuses on the experiences of Asian Australians – and the editors jumped at the chance to publish the work.

Please join us in congratulating Thisuri Weerasinghe on her powerful story ‘Is Blood Thicker Than Water’, and please read and share this piece widely.

 

Andrew Beck

Plastic Free July

This July, MGC’s environment team will be embarking on the annual “plastic free July” challenge. The challenge started in July 2011 in Perth, and has since gone global, with challengers in 69 countries working to combat the growing disposable plastic problem. The challenge is to give up all single-use plastics for the rest of July, the punishment for any unavoidable plastics being a “dilemma bag”, a bag that must be carried wherever you go! At the end of the month, the team will be weighing out dilemma bags, the goal: to beat our resident environmentalist Mr. Vance! Whoever has the least plastic by the end of the month will score themselves a pizza lunch, but asides from the reward offered, the challenge aims to encourage students to reconsider how much plastic we use mindlessly. 

You don’t have to be an environment team member to give it a shot, you can sign up for a day, a week or a month on their website here: http://www.plasticfreejuly.org

Goodluck everyone!!

Congratulations Larissa Gavriloff!

Congratulations to Larissa Gavriloff who participated in a 3 week intensive dance program with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, in Connecticut.

Her jam-packed schedule included classes such as technique, pointe, Russian Language, musical theatre, character, and repertoire.