Daisy Turnbull, Director of Coeducation

Dear Parents and Carers

Term 3 Coeducation Update

What an exciting time for our penultimate term as a single-sex school! Over the holidays we continued to tour and interview incoming girls for Years 7 and 11 2026. For all students in Year 11 2026 (our current Year 10s) there has been a buzz around subject selection, academic counselling, and introducing new subjects. As I looked over the subject selections across the HSC and IB Diploma Programme I was incredibly impressed by the breadth of subjects chosen by our current students and incoming girls. Our current and future Cranbrookians are engaging in what they love, and eschewing outdated concepts of gender stereotypes in their studies.

This connects to what Richard V Reeves often writes about – while we have been focusing on increasing female participation in STEM subjects, we also need to encourage young men to participate in HEAL (Health, Education, Administration and Literacy) domains as well. In our subject selection we see this across our students and subjects.

Term 3 will be busy with upcoming events for our Year 10s, with a service based Trivia Night next week, and more coeducational events coming, Please keep an eye out for events occurring this term.

For students in Years 5 and 6 we will continue with the Long Orientation with Year 5 being part of a Drama and Music workshop on September 2, and Year 6 having their own trivia event on September 9.

I will also be working with students in Year 11, 10, and 9 this term preparing them for coeducation, by discussing what a coeducational school and cohort will mean for them. These sessions are conversation starters to be continued in mentor groups and at home.

As always, please reach out if you have any questions, and I will continue to update you with information about the Coeducation transition at Cranbrook. You can also read about it in the Coeducation at Cranbrook Brochure.

Daisy Turnbull
Director of Coeducation