From the Primary School

International Women’s Day in the Primary School: An equal world is an enabled world

What better environment to celebrate the first International Women’s Day of the decade than SCEGGS!

The Primary girls embraced the opportunity to recognise this important day and acknowledge the range of strong and influential women in their life. It was wonderful to see the big smiles on the girls’ faces as they were welcomed to school on Monday morning by the Year 12 Prefects, who are such great role models within our community for the younger girls.

All classes enjoyed getting crafty and creating their own symbol to wear to show their support, with glimpses of purple seen in every direction. Mrs McBride selected a range of fantastic literature written by accomplished female authors to share in Library lessons and stories of women’s successes from around the world were shared in discussions. Classes also took the opportunity to reflect on the achievements of women throughout history, including gaining the right to vote, participate in the Olympics and the first all-female spacewalk just last year. 

Maths lessons on Monday were also in line with the theme, with classes exploring the mathematical concept of equivalence. The girls enjoyed discovering the origins of the equals sign and applied their knowledge to find items to balance a scale, calculate missing values and solve algebraic equations.

The Year 2 girls helped their Kindergarten buddies think about what type of woman they wanted to be when they grow up. Choices included: “A brave woman”. “A kind woman”. “A strong woman”. If these are anything to go by, the future of SCEGGS is looking bright!

So, here’s to strong women. May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them!

Sarah Johnstone
Head of Student Wellbeing K-6