With the unseasonably warm weather forecast for next week, all students K-12 have the option of wearing either full summer uniform or full winter uniform each day next week, based on the forecast for the day.
All students should be in full summer uniform from the beginning of Term 4.
This is the last week for our Year 12 students and it always comes with a bit of sadness for me. I have known some of these students and their families for the last 13 years (some even longer) and it has been a privilege to watch all of them grow and to get to know them over whatever time their school journey has been at SCEGGS. I hope that they will be well supported in whatever they do and know that this is still, and always will be, their community. My thoughts and prayers go with you Class of 2023!!
In this episode I speak to one of our Alumni, Vivienne Smith (Class of 2008), about her career as an adventure documentary film maker and world traveller. We discuss her experience of different cultures and landscapes and how that has impacted who she is today. Viv also explains the new app that she is involved with that takes the viewer to the locations of a whole range of famous movies and television shows. Her story about documenting other people’s stories is exciting and eye opening. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
And a reminder that we are published on Spotify, Apple, Google Podcast and Deezer, so you can access it easier from your preferred device. I always welcome your feedback or any ideas you may have for further episodes. You will find each podcast as they are produced in this newsletter and on the other platforms as well as our website.
Rev. Garry Lee-Lindsay
Chaplain
Oral language is more than just giving news or delivering a prepared speech in class, it is about creating a rich language environment. In Stage 2 this term, the teachers and girls have certainly created an environment rich in oracy by exploring aspects of reading fluency, practising their choral reading skills, and rehearsing and reciting a poem in small groups. This all culminated in the Stage 2 Oracy Showcase where four teams from both Year 3 and 4 were selected to present. Creating opportunities like this to showcase oracy skills to different audiences and beyond the classroom raises its status. Presenting to an audience other than their teacher or peers also raises expectations, as was proven on the day.
In delivering their performance, the girls were asked to consider aspects of reading fluency such as expression, rhythm, phrasing, and timing. They were also asked to consider presentational oracy skills such as speaking with clarity and at a volume for easy listening and ensuring appropriate posture and presentation. Finally, they were asked to consider teamwork, after all choral reading requires effective collaboration.
We would like to acknowledge the following teams who took part in the showcase:
Congratulations to Year 3 Maya Clark, Clementine Darling, Madeleine Chirakis and Fiona Wu whose recitation of Television was awarded first place on the day and Year 4 Harriet Hilton, Mila Gupta and Eva Geha who received Highly Commended.
A special thank you to our Year 12 judges, Ciara Henshaw and Samantha Dawson who took time out of their busy schedule to adjudicate, and our Year 5 hosts, Evie Duncan, Victoria Poniros, Alexia Marskell, Sofea Davey, Ella Ungur and Evie Thorpe.
Kristy Williams
Acting Curriculum Coordinator (English)
2024 will see the Festival on Forbes return to SCEGGS Darlinghurst!
Our biennial Fair is the highlight event of the P&F calendar and a great way to get involved in the school community.
We are seeking volunteers to join the organising committee to assist with planning and coordination.
If you would like to be involved in a fun, creative event, please email The Parents’ and Friend’s Association. We look forward to hearing from you!
The Festival on Forbes Committee
Congratulations to all students who competed at the IGSA Athletics Championships that were held at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre. SCEGGS placed 12th overall out of 27 schools.
| Event | Name | Division 2 Heat | Final Result | |
| Hurdles | 12 Years 80m | Stella Brenton | 3rd | 5th |
| 13 Years 80m | Tyra Ifada | 3rd | ||
| 14 Years 90m | Sarah James | 1st | 3rd | |
| 15 Years 90m | Annaliese Stackpool | 2nd | ||
| 16 Years 100m | Eleanor Lawson | 6th | ||
| 17 Years 100m | Janet Zheng | 5th | ||
| 18 Years 100m | Hannah Guest | 3rd | 6th | |
| 800m | 12 Years | Georgina Auld | 8th | |
| 13 Years | Annabelle Jessup | 5th | ||
| 14 Years | Summer McCarthy | 5th | ||
| 15 Years | Annabel Lavery | 5th | ||
| 16 Years | Molly Andrews | 7th | ||
| 17 Years | Janet Zheng | 6th | ||
| 18 Years | Hannah Peacocke | 6th |
| 200m | 12 Years | Georgina Auld | 3rd | 7th |
| 13 Years | Isabella Campbell | 6th | ||
| 14 Years | Sofia White | 7th | ||
| 15 Years | Mia Sparks | 7th | ||
| 16 Years | Stella Argyrides | 3rd | 8th | |
| 17 Years | Tessa McCarthy | 1st | 3rd | |
| 18 Years | Mietta Paipetis | 6th | ||
| Para-athlete | Coco Espie | 2nd |
| 1500m | Junior | Annabelle Jessup | 3rd | 8th overall |
| Intermediate | Annabel Lavery | 15th overall | ||
| Senior | Harriet Christie | 18th overall |
| 100m | 12 Years | Georgina Auld | 3rd | 8th |
| 13 Years | Isabella Campbell | 5th | ||
| 14 Years | Adelaide Sewell | 8th | ||
| 15 Years | Mia Sparks | 6th | ||
| 17 Years | Tessa McCarthy | 1st | 4th | |
| 18 Years | Hannah Guest | 8th | ||
| Para-athlete | Coco Espie | 2nd |
| 4 x 100m Relay | Junior | Pui Wai Evelyn Li Adelaide Sewell Isabella Campbell Tyra Ifada |
9th | |
| Intermediate | Stella Argyrides Eleanor Lawson Isla Hootman Jemima Sewell |
1st | 3rd | |
| Senior | Tessa McCarthy Hannah Guest Mietta Paipetis Sophie Myles |
8th |
| 400m | Junior | Sofia White | 6th | |
| Intermediate | Isla Hootman | 5th | ||
| Senior | Tessa McCarthy | 1st | 2nd overall |
| Long Jump | 12 Years | Stella Brenton | 6th | |
| 13 Years | Pu Wai Evelyn Li | 4th | ||
| 14 Years | Sarah James | 5th | ||
| 15 Years | Eden Smith | 2nd | 4th Overall | |
| 16 Years | Eleanor Lawson | 7th | ||
| 17 Years | Sophie Myles | 5th | ||
| 18-19 Years | Amanda Aroney | 5th | ||
| Para-athlete | Naylise Thompson | 3rd overall |
| Javelin | Junior | Veronica Leys | 4th |
| Intermediate | Annaliese Stackpool | 5th |
| Shot Put | 12 Years | Stella Brenton | 9th | |
| 14 Years | Ivy Platt | 6th | ||
| 15 Years | Eden Smith | 4th | 9th Overall | |
| 16 Years | Eleanor Lawrie | 8th | ||
| 17 Years | Sophie Myles | 5th | ||
| 18-19 Years | Mietta Paipetis | 6th | ||
| Para-athlete | Coco Espie | 1st Overall | ||
| Para-athlete | Naylise Thompson | 2nd Overall |
| High Jump | Junior | Sarah James | 6th | |
| Intermediate | Annaliese Stackpool | 7th | ||
| Senior | Amanda Aroney | 2nd | 9th Overall |
| Discus | Junior | Veronica Leys | 9th | |
| Intermediate | Eleanor Lawrie | 8th | ||
| Senior | Hannah Guest | 7th | ||
| Para-athlete | Coco Espie | 2nd Overall | ||
| Para-athlete | Naylise Thompson | 3rd overall |
Good luck to the following students who will be competing at the NSWCIS Athletics Championships:
Well done to our four SCEGGS representatives who competed at the Australian Cross Country Championships that were held in Canberra.
| Under 18 4000m | Ruby Fry 24th |
| Under 16 4000m | Matilda Emanuel 16th Nancy Newton 33rd Lily Cooney 37th |
Congratulations to Holly Johnston (Year 8) who won the Gold Medal at the NSW All Schools Taekwondo Championships. Holly is currently a Green Belt with a Blue Tip, and competes in the Junior class. Holly trains out of the Wyllie Martial Arts in Willoughby. She also holds a brown belt in Karate!
Congratulations to Alexa Falzon (Year 7), Jamilla Yamani (Year 7) and Annalise Zimmerle (Year 8) who all competed at the State Clubs Competition that was held last Saturday.
Alexa represented Five Dock Gymnastics Club who won the gold medal for the Level 7 team event. The team finished 1st on bars, 2nd on floor and 2nd on beam.
Annalise and Jamilla represented Bunnerong Gymnastics who placed 4th in the Level 8 Team.
The students also previously competed at the NSW Championships achieving excellent individual results:
Well done to Emma Juneja in Year 12 who was selected for the National Futures Training Camp to play and train in Melbourne last weekend. Emma was one of 4 NSW players to be selected in the group of 44 U’17 players from around the country. Not surprisingly Emma was also nominated for a Rising Star Award in the Premier League earlier in the season. Emma will now be focusing on the HSC for the next few weeks before getting back into training again. We look forward to following her progress with the Sydney Swans.
Congratulations to Chloe Copp in Year 12 who placed 4th in the Young Rider Class (Under 21) at the Tamworth World Cup Equestrian Event. We wish her well as she now focuses on the HSC for the next few weeks.
SCEGGS 1 finished the season strongly with a 3-0 win over Ravenswood to place 6th in S01 playing against the “best of the best”. We say farewell to many of our Year 12 players who have been in the Senior 1st team over several years. It was an emotional morning for everyone, especially Head Coach James Birkefeld who has coached many of these players since primary school.
SCEGGS 2 faced some tough opposition throughout their season and finished 8th in S03.
SCEGGS 3 finished 5th in S04 and narrowly missed out on semi-finals.
SCEGGS 4 finished 4th and were defeated by Ascham 3-0 in their semi-final on the weekend.
SCEGGS 1 finished the regular season in second place and were narrowly defeated in the semi-final by Kambala 20-18 in a thrilling match.
| Event | Where | Time |
| SCEGGS 2 v Monte 2 | Wenona | 10am |
| SCEGGS 5 v Wenona 6 in J02 | Kincoppal Rose Bay | 8am |
| SCEGGS 6 v Ascham 7 in J03 | Kincoppal Rose Bay | 9am |
| SCEGGS 7 v Santa 3 in J04 | Billbergia Court 3 | 11am |
Good luck to our four teams who are playing in Grand Finals this weekend.
The SCEGGS 1 Netball team were defeated by Ascham 35 -41 in the S02 Semi-final that was played here at SCEGGS.
| Event | Where | Time |
| SCEGGS 6 v St Vincent’s 11 in J07 | Sydney University | 10am |
| SCEGGS 7 v Ravenswood 15 in J09 | Ravenswood Indoor | 9am |
| SCEGGS 11 v PLC Sydney 25 | PLC Sydney | 11am |
| Event | Where | Time |
| SCEGGS 1 v Kambala 1 | Heffron Park | 9am |
| SCEGGS 2 v Kambala in S03 | Tom Wills Community (TWC) Field | 9am |
| SCEGGS 4 v Loreto Kirribilli 4 in J01 | Cammeray Synthetic Field | 11am |
| SCEGGS 7 v Wenona 7 in Y701 | David Phillips Synthetic | 8am |
| Date | Event | Time | Where |
| Tuesday 19 September | Year 10/11 including any juniors trialling for Senior 1st team | 3.15 pm – 5pm | Moore Park Synthetic |
| Wednesday 20 September | Year 7 (all students required even if you are trialling for Junior 1st) | 3.15 pm – 5pm | Rushcutters Bay |
| Thursday 21 September | Year 8/9 including any Year 7 students trialling for Junior 1st team | 3.15pm – 5pm | Rushcutters Bay |
| Date | Category | Time | Where |
|
Tuesday September 19 |
Years 10-11 |
6:30am – 7:30am |
UNSW Pool |
| Thursday September 21 |
Years 7-9 |
6:30am – 7:30am | UNSW Pool |
Do you have any sporting news or photos to share in the Green Gate?
We love seeing our students being active and want to celebrate their passion and enjoyment amongst the SCEGGS community. Please send in any action shots from the weekend and any other interesting sporting highlights to Alison Gowan (Please ensure that photos are of your daughters only. We are unable to publish photos of non SCEGGS students without parental permission).
Please check the @SCEGGSSport Twitter feed for the latest updates relating to cancellations and wet weather.
The IGSA website and platform for accessing wet weather, fixtures and team results can be found here.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact myself on 9052 2721 or 0418 491 521.
Alison Gowan
Director of Sport
Our five Year 12 Science Extension students presented their research at a panel discussion in the Senior Library last Tuesday. Sitting in front of their conference-style posters, the students described the challenges they faced, their results, and the implications for future research. It was standing room only with an audience full of students and staff. Milla Brown described her first-hand investigation of the nicotine content of e-cigarettes. Alice Martin explored the possibility of using chelation as a treatment for the buildup of iron in the brain that is associated with Parkinson’s disease. Sally Webster discussed the use of waste coffee grounds as a source of activated carbon for the purpose of filtering heavy metals from water. Emma Talbot treated genetically modified organisms as invasive species when investigating their impact on ecosystems. Annie Furness sought correlations between the metallicity of stars and the properties of their exoplanets. In responding to questions from the audience, the panelists mused on the increasingly-serious battle against pseudoscience, the need for blue skies research, and the responsibility of scientists to report their findings without bias. Milla, Alice, Sally, Emma and Annie are to be congratulated on their efforts in carrying out independent research over the past year.
Joseph Guss
Science Teacher
Each member of our SCEGGS Finalist team were awarded medals for their accuracy in the Finals of the NSW Titration Competition.
The NSW Schools Titration Competition is an analytical chemistry competition open to NSW students enrolled in Senior Chemistry. The Competition attracts over 1200 students from over 100 NSW schools from across the state.
Students compete in teams of three to complete a first-hand analytical experiment to determine the unknown concentration of an acid. Each team’s overall score depends on the accuracy of the estimates measured by each member.
Based on their results in the Qualifying round of the Competition, one of our teams was selected to take part in the Final round, which took place on Saturday 9 September at UNSW. This team consisted of Jessica Millen, Isabella Morgan, and Josephine Robson.
In the competition, Isabella achieved a gold medal for excellence in accuracy, while Jessica and Josephine both achieved silver medals for commendation. This was a terrific result and we were very proud of the students’ commitment to training prior to the day, and for their excellent performance in the final round.
A huge thank you to our wonderful laboratory technician, Selena Browne, who supported the students in each round of the competition, and ensured they were well-equipped to compete and achieve such pleasing results.
The Senior Chemistry Team
Luke Hanson, Alison Johnson, and Nicola Kidston
The final Musicale for this year will take place next term on Thursday 26 October. Musicale 4 will begin at 6pm in the Great Hall and will feature the following ensembles:
A letter will be sent to families early next term with further information and details. We look forward to sharing this performance of the above ensembles with the school community.
| Week | Event | Date & Time | Where |
| Week 9 | Primary Piano Concert | Thursday 14 September, 3.30 – 4.30pm | Great Hall |
| Week 10 | Primary Percussion Concert | Friday 22 September, 1.10pm – 1.40pm | Primary Music Room |
| Week | Event | Date & Time | Where |
| Week 3 | Musicale 4 | Thursday 26 October, 6pm | Great Hall |
Pauline Chow
Head of Music
SCOPE is a biannual publication that showcases student writing about arts practice and provides compelling insights into the art world through reviews, critical writing, and interviews. It is a student led initiative that aims to bring all aspects of the artworld into focus and provide critiques and details of current exhibitions in Sydney, as well as exploring national and overseas events.
The Lead Editors for this issue have been Year 10 students Imogen Zimmerle and Maya Shearing with Zoe Lindner in the role of Special Features Writer.
Being part of the SCOPE team helps develop your research and analytical skills, builds your collaborative and critical thinking, and enables you to meet new friends and create new relationships and contacts both in the student community and in the vast network of artists, and art world practitioners associated with SCEGGS.
This is a bumper issue focusing on past and present changes within the art world. You can access the online version of SCOPE here or hard copies are available in the Secondary School Library and from the Art Staffroom.
Congratulations to all the contributors: Imogen Zimmerle (Year 10), Amelia Ransom (Year 11) , Bridgette Dunlop (Year 11), Coco Riminton (Year 12), Mia Butcher (Year 10), Portia Palmerlee (Year 12), Zoe Lindner (Year 10) and Maya Shearing (Year 10).
This week’s banner is a work from Year 12 student Holly Salter’s Body of Work titled: Crossroads.
Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts
We are in need of parents or Old Girls who are interested in supervising HSC exams. No previous experience is necessary. For security reasons, an individual who has a child or near relative sitting for the examinations is not eligible for appointment as a paid supervisor. Those acting as supervisors will require a paid Working with Children Check.
The HSC starts on Wednesday 11 October and finishes on Friday 3 November. Shifts can be morning or afternoon and are various in length. If you are interested in supervising this year you must be available to work on Wednesday 11 October, Thursday 12 October and Monday 16 October in the morning. These are the busiest days and we will need a large number of supervisors.
Please contact our Presiding Officer, Mrs Alison Gavan, to express interest in becoming an examination supervisor. She will also be happy to answer any queries you may have. She can be contacted by email.
Andrew Gallagher
Director of Curriculum
Next week, we welcome guest speaker, Jane McGowen, to run her Consent for Kids program with Year 6. The program will be delivered in workshops done in class groups held on Monday 18 September during the school day. Jane has developed the Consent for Kids program to provide earlier intervention to help resource and enhance confidence for young people within a protective behaviours lens. She uses a variety of techniques to enable young people to learn about themselves in a safe and structured way that is also fun!
In addition to the student workshops, Jane will also be presenting to Year 6 parents the following evening, Tuesday 19 September. Please see details below.
Click here to indicate your interest in attending the parent session by Tuesday 12 September. If you have any questions regarding these sessions please get in touch.
Sarah Johnstone
Deputy Head of Primary, Student Wellbeing
Dear Families
With the school holidays fast approaching, we would like to take the opportunity to share our Spring Vacation Care Program with you.
The service will be operating from Monday 25 September – Friday 6 October. The service is open for current Primary SCEGGS girls and their school aged siblings only.
Please click here for the Vacation Care Flyer.
The vacation care program for these holidays has a wonderful variety of excursions and incursions and exciting in-house days at the centre for all children to enjoy.
For safety and staffing reasons, we will be capping the excursions, so please book early!
If you would like to book your child into Vacation Care, please click on the TryBooking link to generate your tickets.
Please note, that if you have not yet enrolled your child into our After School/ Vacation Care Service through the OWNA website or you are a new family joining SCEGGS in 2023, you will be required to fill out enrolment documentation prior to booking. This can be accessed via the below link.
Please reach out via email or phone 0499105111 if you have any inquiries about Vacation Care, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Adam Mawardi
After School Care Co-Ordinator
| Year 10 Parent Event | When: Thursday 14 September, 6.30pm Where: Woollahra Hotel RSVP: via TryBooking |