Principal's Report

Welcome Stephanie Burgess - Head Rowing Coach

We are delighted to welcome our new Head Rowing Coach, Stephanie Burgess, to Melbourne Girls’ College.

Stephanie brings a wealth of knowledge as a coach and rower herself. Stephanie has worked on the Head of the School Girls’ Regatta Committee, coached teams to National Championship A and B Finals and has a degree in Tourism and Environment. We look forward to an exciting future for MGC Rowing.

Curriculum Day on 19th August

The 19th August was a great learning day for our staff. Each Domain Leader worked with their teams on the Victorian Curriculum F-10. Thank you to Nerida Mathews, Curriculum Manager, Health and Physical Education, VCAA for answering the many excellent questions to ensure the day was worthwhile. Please see a snapshot below from our introductory power point which outlines the multi-pronged design of our Professional Learning Community. This is a community of students, staff, parents and key stakeholders.

We also heard from Matt of the Safe Schools Coalition, his examples of inclusion and respect delivered with humour and goodwill ensures staff could reflect and think about their own ideas for teaching and learning with the safe schools lens.

Mathematics Games Day

Thank you to Mathematics Leader, Georgia Sotirou, John Opt’Hoog and our students who hosted a Mathematics Games Day on Wednesday 24th August. A room full of teenage mathematicians from Mac Robertson Girls’ College, Melbourne High School, Albert Park College, University High School and Auburn High School battled with the many problems and ideas set. The Mathematics Captains, Claire Armitage and Sarah Simpson-Tuckey; M.C.s Amy Bagster, Katherine Meletiou and Sophie Cutter; assistants Tylah Sparkes, Ingrid Perkins and Zoe Constantinou represented our school with distinction. Congratulations to our MGC team, Thirumagal Arunachalam Elanthendral Ruoqi (Rachel) Peng 

Van Nguyen Tuong Pham and Muyao Zhou. Our girls gained third place, narrowly beaten by two teams from Melbourne High. A fantastic achievement!

Parents’ Association

Thank you to our Parents’ Association lead by Gailean Hammond and Sallie Carman for the latest fund raiser, the MGC Massive Recycled Designer Sale to be held on 11th September! Hours of work go into each of the fund raising activities and we are so grateful. The grants provided by our P.A. ensure learning is supported by the latest technology, such as the robots and equipment in the Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.) centre. 

City Edge Community of Practice

The student leaders of Mac Robertson Girls’ College, Melbourne High School, Albert Park College, Princes Hill Secondary College, University High, Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Girls’ College work extremely well together through their newly formed coalition. Our Captains, Laura Bass, Sally Jacobs, Tallara Drew-Hazou and Mimi D’Orsogna will host the next meeting of this dynamic group of young people on 2nd September.

2017 Planning

Planning for next year is underway as we look at the learning, curriculum, assessment, reporting, staffing and organisation required to build our school to the next level. It is a busy yet exciting time as we look at how our professional educators can work with your daughters next year.

Best regards and thank you again for all of your support, 

Karen