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International Women’s Day 2026

On Monday the 9th of March our school celebrated International Women’s Day which was run by the leadership groups. The morning started off with a panel of esteemed guests presented to year 12 and the leadership groups.

Maree O’Halloran (Former President of the NSW Teachers Federation) spoke about the importance of education in giving and gaining while also speaking on feminism in her line of work. She was followed by Dr Alyson Kakakios (Former Head of Paediatrics of Westmead Children’s Hospital) who made an amazing reflection on how to give and to gain has impacted her in every stage of her life. Dr Jodi Lynch (Head of Oncology at St George Hospital) gave us an understanding of how she got to her position, how St George Hospital celebrates woman and issues she has overcome as a female doctor. Lastly Yiana Roumeliotis (social impact officer for Addison Road Community Organisation) answered questions about how to be more vocal as a young woman and talked about women and men’s roles in standing up for equality.

A whole school assembly was then run by the leadership groups. SRC began with an opening message about this year’s theme “to give to gain” and a speech from Ellinor Gudmundsson, Vice President, discussing the struggles faced by women and sharing her knowledge gained at the UN International Women’s Day Lunch. Following this TAP, SEA, the First Nations Leadership Group and Pride gave information about women in their individual areas as well as some interactive games.

Additionally, all the groups had activities and stalls running at lunch; weaving from First Nations, a quiz about impactful women from SEA and Pride, TAP hosted a sports match and SRC held a second hand clothes store. The day went really well thanks to the combined efforts of all our leadership groups as well as the teachers that support us to achieve these goals, and we hope that we are able to run future events just as smoothly and successfully as this one.

By Polly Riethmuller from Year 11 SRC