Year 12

A normal week for Year 12 is filled with many things: study periods, rehearsals, classes, workshops, lab practicals, sport and co-curricular activities. Captains meet every week to organise their committees, and the House Captains are preparing for our Illuminate winter festival later in the term.

Jo Cilia, our Head of Futures and Pathways, has organised a great program of Alumni talks and university presentations as part of our Thursday Luminary time this term.

This week we had the pleasure of hearing two MLC School Old Girls, who were very inspiring. Amy Hort (2011) is a Surgical Fellow in the Western Sydney Health District and Maekayla Tran (2017), is an optometrist with the Royal Flying Doctor Service. They had the most amazing stories and shared their journey with the girls, from Year 12 to university and a busy life with study, postgrad work, young families and travel. Maekayla’s message to the girls was to try everything, go out of your comfort zone and embrace all that life has to offer. Both Old Girls were passionate about helping others and making a difference to the community, which they do with their rewarding work. For the rest of the term, the girls will hear from a range of speakers from the Health, Business and Finance, Law, Marketing, Project Management, Construction and many more fields on offer. Jo’s aim is to open the girls to new opportunities and to perhaps find the ‘spark’ that will inspire them for the next stage of their life.

A walk past the Food Technology kitchens revealed a wonderful practical lesson with Renee Willemsen’s, Head of Department – Technological and Applied Studies (TAS), class on Wednesday. Food Technology is a complex scientific subject and the girls got the opportunity to put their theory into practice, making a full dinner service with many courses, which the girls get to take home when they have finished preparing the meal. It was the highlight of my week to drop in on them and see the girls having lots of fun in their learning. The Textiles and Visual Arts girls were also working hard this week on practical assessments and hand in tasks.

– Sharon Connolly
Head of Year 12