House & sport comps

Jemima Montag Live Chat

How lucky the MSGC community were to hear from Jemima Montag on Tuesday 8 September. Jemima is an elite athlete, passionate speaker and university student. She was the Gold medallist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Women’s 20km race walk and has just been announced in the Australian Olympic team for next year.

Jemima shared her journey with some anecdotal stories relating to key themes like developing resilience and embracing challenges. Her advice to our students (and staff) in attendance was to question yourself: “Are they an opportunity or are they a threat?” in relation to embracing challenges. Jemima highlighted the challenges we are all facing at the moment and asked us to see them as an opportunity and focus on the things you can control. Jemima shared a tool box of things to assist you in doing this which included:

Create a support network
Focus on things that you can control
Have a happy medium between things you enjoy and like and your school work
Engage in self care rituals.
Perseverance by responding, adapting and reshaping your goals.

What a privilege it was to have such an opportunity and to feel inspired by a young athlete. We wish Jemima all the best in her race to the Olympics and hope that the MGSC community enjoyed the experience and could implement some of the key points that was shared to us.

House Bumper Stickers winners

Congratulations to all students who submitted an entry to our bumper sticker competition this term. There has been some impressive entries with lots of creative ideas incorporated. Below are the house results (remember that all entries received 50 points for their house and the winning designs were awarded 100 points)

Jackson – 310 points
Mackellar – 250 points
Kenny – 200 points
Melba – 0 points

The winners (displayed in the banner )are:

Mackellar – Xanthe P(Year 11)

Jackson – Amber M (Year 8)

Kenny - Emily G(Year 7)

Melba – No entry

End of Term 3 House points tally

Another active term filled with lots of opportunities to earn house points. Well done to all students who have contributed in some (or many) ways. The tally is:

4th – Melba (1606)
3rd – Kenny (2123)
2nd – Jackson (2316)
1st – Mackellar (2395)

Look out for some other ways in term 4 to boost your house points as we head into the home straight

Ilana Parker

House Sport and Competitions Coordinator