Year 11 student Katie was chosen as the Community Guest Speaker at the recent Strathfield Council Citizenship ceremony. As well as welcoming new citizens to Australia Katie delivered a powerful speech on the privileges of being an Australian. She reflected on her work with Sudanese Refugees and her recent immersion
13 November 2012
Year 6 Music classes have joined with students across Australia to perform Different People(Stand Together) as part of Music Count Us In, a national initiative to encourage music participation in schools. Our singers and instrumentalists demonstrated great talent and enthusiasm as they performed in this exciting event which
1 November 2012
The College P&F have hosted a fantastic luncheon in the Secondary School for the winning colour house from the Fair, Teangi. From orange slushies to orange cupcakes, rice paper rolls and pizza, the girls were treated to a delicious feast. Our thanks go to the P&F for providing this special lunch in
1 November 2012
The congratulations of the College community go to Karen, a Year 11 student and 2011-2012 Social Justice Leader, who has been recognized in The Marie Bashir Peace Awards 2012 with one of four Highly Commended Certificates, for her efforts towards fostering peace and harmony. Karen has made an enormous contribution
28 October 2012
Santa’s spirit of community set sail with the P&F Association’s’Bon Voyage’Trivia Night as pirates and sailors came together to meet the challenge of the trivia questions and best decorated table, while also honouring the 20 year commitment to the College P&F by Elizabeth Pooley. Generosity of spirit and the many
28 October 2012
Year 6 students have made iPad movies to show their SKYPE friends in San Francisco some glimpses of their school. The girls chat to the students from Kent School in San Francisco using SKYPE and have discovered the challenges of working out the time zones for the two classes to
24 October 2012
An appreciative audience of parents and staff has enjoyed a new collaborative initiative of the Year 10 Music Theatre and Year 10 Food Technology classes on the production of a Theatre Restaurant. The Music Theatre class created a script and rehearsed their amusing performance over several weeks. The Food Technology students designed
23 October 2012
Representatives from the current cohort of ‘Homework Help’ volunteers have accepted an award in the West’s Ashfield Community Citizenship Awards. Since 2004, groups of Santa students have gone each week after school to St Joachim’s Primary School in Lidcombe to help refugee children with their homework. The recognition brings a cheque
22 October 2012
Students and staff have returned from the annual Immersion trip to South Africa, with students asserting that the experience will stay with them forever. The girls visited our ‘sister school’ in Kwa-Zulu Natal and lived with a host family in a township. They taught a lesson at a primary school where the
21 October 2012
A challenge climb, bush walk, scavenger hunt and camp craft were someof the highlights of the recent Year 4 camp experience at Tallong Campus.Teamwork was the focus as the children held the ladder, manipulated the rope and encouraged each other every step of the way to the top, with the
21 October 2012
As part of the Year 7 COMPASS program students have presented their range of projects on the theme of ‘Footprints to Sustainability’. The enquiry-based projects range from greenscaping, solar energy and management of waste to the re- design of learning and social spaces. The girls have demonstrated outstanding skills of research, problem
21 October 2012
Santa dancers have wowed the judges to win the 2012 CGSSSA Championships with our best ever results. As one of 14 schools, Santa contested each of the 7 sections at the championship and along with over 400 dancers in 51 teams they entertained the audience and judges in a fantastic
21 October 2012