On Thursday 24 and Friday 25 May, our Year 5-10 da Vinci Decathlon teams joined over fifty other teams from schools from around the region to compete in an academic decathlon. This competition is usually held in Canberra but was held virtually this year. The da Vinci Decathlon required the teams to draw on each [...]
This semester, our Year 6 students have been busy in STEM, re-purposing old equipment to build fan-driven cars. The hands-on activity required students to call upon a breadth of skills, including collaboration, critical thinking, planning, creativity and working technical skills. Through re-purposing old equipment, students completed the following four tasks: Task 1: Salvage usable parts from [...]
2022 Jindabyne Club Lions Youth of the Year Competition On Tuesday 22nd February, Snowy Mountains Grammar School students Alexi Cross (Year 12), Spedding Pearce (Year 11) and Ruby Smith (Year 11) competed in the Jindabyne Club Lions Youth of the Year competition. The Lions Youth of the Year competition is designed to encourage and foster [...]
The Australian Mathematics Competition - Results In Term 3, sixty-four SMGS students across Years 3 to 12 participated in the 2021 Australian Mathematics Competition. “The AMC is an engaging thirty-problem competition that demonstrates the importance and relevance of mathematics in students’ everyday lives; it is open to students in Years 3 to 12. Australia’s leading [...]
On the last day of term for 2021, Snowy Mountains Grammar School’s Middle Division (A) team matched up against Frensham from Mittagong in the national grand final of the NGS Super Virtual Debating Competition, organised by the AIS. Prior to the debate, Principal, Dr Andrew Bell, spoke with the team, congratulating them on reaching the [...]
During week 5, SMGS Year 7 students attended a cross-curricular field study in conjunction with their Term 3 Science study of ecology and ecosystems and Geography study of water. An integral component of both of these subjects is developing skills for collecting data in the field. To nurture these skills, the students investigated the [...]
National Careers Week - Highlighting the importance of career development within our schools for all students Aja Bailey - During her Year 10 work experience week last year Did you know that our current students will on average have five careers in their lifetime? It is suggested that this is because approximately [...]
Congratulations to Year 12 Student Zac Corcoran, who represented SMGS, the Jindabyne community and the wider region at the Lions Youth of the Year State Finals gala dinner in Canberra on Saturday 17 April. In what was a very close competition between the 5 speakers, we are incredibly proud of Zac's work to prepare [...]
The Mock Trial is a competition run by the Law Society of NSW and is offered as a co-curricular activity at SMGS for students in years 10 and 11. The competition aims to introduce students to the NSW judicial system and involves students participating in a simulated criminal or civil court case. Students can undertake [...]
How does the HSC work? How can you best prepare for your HSC examinations? Following the recent Virtual UAC presentation, our Director of Curriculum and Operations, Dr Darryl Nelson and some of our Senior School leadership team created a video series to provide further insight about the various elements of the HSC and Year 12 [...]
