Last week, Mrs Anne Jones and I took Yr 9 and senior Drama students to see Bell Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Canberra Theatre. Students loved that the actors could bring this 'comedy' to life on stage while still presenting the debilitating consequences of racism in an intensely powerful way. Also, I got [...]
At the end of Term 3, the SMGS Junior School were delighted to meet local artist and author, Toni Cary, and her partner Clinton who visited in the last week of term. We were privileged to be amongst the first to see some of the original illustrations and have Toni read from the first book [...]
Twenty-seven students from SMGS recently completed the Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians (MCYA). This is a competition developed by the Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee and is designed to extend and challenge budding young mathematicians in schools across Australia and the South Pacific region. This year, approximately 250 schools from Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia entered 17000 [...]
On Thursday, 14 September, SMGS held its annual Snowsports Presentation Night at Rydges Horizons in Jindabyne. National team member participation certificates were handed out, as well as ASSSTCs team medals, Interschools all-rounder medals, best-in-discipline awards, and ESA awards, as well as our perpetual shields: -The Bentley and Talia Major Award for Outstanding Interschools Performance -The [...]
