1990 Annual Report

Other Year 12 Science students to make their mark have been Natalie Taylor, who was selected to attend the CRA Science Summer School in Canberra last January, and Sze-Wai Ooi and Katherine Robinson who won prizes in the Science Contest conducted by the Science Teachers' Association of Queensland. In March this year the National Latin examination involving seventy-eight thousand students from all over the world was conducted by the American Classical League, which awarded Hilary Fisher in Year 10 a silver medal for excellent achievement in Level 1, and Joanna Skowronski in Year 12, a gold medal for outstanding achievement in Level 2. Nicola Heiser in Year 12 was awarded first prize in the Senior B division of the Twentie th Annual Japanese Language Speech Contest and Ingrid Hadgraft in Year 10 was awarded first prize in the Junior A division of the Queensland Japanese Speech Contest. Margaret Robin in Year 8 won her section of Goethe Verse Speaking Competition, Jane Eckett in Year 10 won first prize in the Language other than English Competition and Maki Watanabe won first prize in the Alliance Francaise Competition. Caroline Wilkie in Year 9 received first prize in the Calligraphy Composition Contest organised by the Department of Japanese and Chinese Studies at the University of Queensland. Genevieve Gee in Year 12 was highly commended for her entry in Write and Illustrate a Children's Book Competition, and drew high praise from the judging panel who commented that she could well . have a future as a Cartoonist. Our students once again performed well in the 1990 QATIS Literary Competition, winning first, second and third prizes in the Junior Poetry section. Kristina Wainwright in Year 8 deserves special mention, with nine other girls also receiving pnzes. A number of our students had the opportunity in early November to participate in a program "Days of Excellence", which was held in a number of schools throughout Brisbane. For example, two of our young musicians spent two days involved in concentrated work with John Curro, Director of the Queensland Youth Orchestra, and at the end of those two days participated in a Concert. Other opportunities were offered in Lego/Logo, Forensic Science, Maths Problem-Solving, Sport and Leadership. All the girls involved felt they had benefited from the experience. We look forward to supporting this program even more actively in the years ahead. Education throughout Australia is in a rapid state of change, unprecedented, I believe, in history. It is very likely that schooling and education in general will be significantly different by the end of this century. It was therefore imperative that in the past year we addressed and developed appropriate mechanisms which not only will allow us to keep abreast of such developments, but also will provide a framework through which our teachers will be given the oppor tunity to strengthen In Geography, Girls' Grammar achieved a School Prize for the best set of entries in the Map Week Competition.