Year 8

This week the Year 8 girls have continued with their strong and enthusiastic work ethic as they manoeuvre their way through the term. Both individually and as a group they have kept focus and are moving through their assessment schedule with ease, not one seemed phased at Monday Maths Assessment which was very exciting to see! Well done Year 8 for your calm and organised approach.

We also saw our first ❤mlcschool Giving Day launched with great success. The ground floor of the Senior Centre was flooded with pink and it was wonderful to see so many parents and Old Girls “womanning” the phonelines. It was a great success and an inspiration to our students who had a front row seat to seeing what can be achieved with just an idea, team work, and determination, not to mention exactly what being a part of the MLC School community means.

Our senior leaders have continued with the theme this week and are continually putting on a fundraising show for us. On Tuesday we had live music in the Bird Bath Quad as our student bands showcased what they have been working on, this was in conjunction with and inspiration for gold coin donations from each House as Houses competed in the House Coin Collection Race, with all contributions going towards ❤mlcschool Giving Day.

As I am writing this I am preparing to see if I will receive a pie in the face in another of our fun and exciting fundraising activities this week, stay tuned to see if I win or lose (hard to say which one I am hoping for!).
Editor’s note: as you can tell from the main photo, Kylie lost and had a pie thrown in her face at Thursday lunchtime.

Next week, Year 8 will be the focus of our school’s weekly Chapel Service. I am looking forward to this, as it will be my first Chapel service with the girls which is hard to believe but Chapel has been one of the many weekly events that has been greatly affected by NSW Health restrictions. It is interesting to see how we continually take some things for granted and we don’t even know how much we truly appreciated them until we get them back.

Have a great weekend everyone, good luck in sport, debating and dance and enjoy the sunshine.

– Kylie Bickerstaff
Head of Year 8