2013 School Magazine

J U N OF?' The Junior Writer-in-Residence programme is an opportunity for Year 8 and Year 9 students who enjoy writing to work with an author. This year Kate Hunter came to help twenty selected students improve their writing skills it was really funny to see a story that begins with the words 'lovely', 'whisper' and 'door' be turned into a German being killed by a sausage by one person, and a love story by another. Overall. this was one of my favourite things to do this year. I loved being surrounded by likeminded people who appreciate the written word as much as I do. 11:2' ITE 1:2' - N

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Iv'IULTICULTU!:^'AL WEEK Every year Multicultural Week is a School-w'de celebration of culture and heritage. In 2013 Multicultural Week delivered the always-anticipated international cafe menu. with themed days this year expanded to include selections of delicious meals from Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe. South America, and the brand-new International Dessert Day, which proved an incredible success Throughout the week. every girl was invited to nominate one country from which her family originated. This project. entitled 'Grammar Girls around the World', encouraged the girls to discover family heritage by talking to their parents, grandparents and even great- grandparents, and if this led to no new discoveries, girls were able to turn to Google to learn the origins of a family name. The Multicultural Week committee hoped that by learning something new about their ancestry. girls would be encouraged to learn even more about international cultures. Results from this project were collated by the committee and shared with the girls at School Assembly. Some of these statistics concluded that 20% of girls are from Asia, 33% from Europe, and I% are from New Zealand, among many other interesting discoveries The week ended with a cultural Iy inspired music performance during lunch time, on level3 of the Creative Learning Centre. Girls were able to enjoy music provided by their peers as an enjoyable and enriching lunch-time treat. The 2013 Multicultural Week proved another great success. and girls should be just as excited for next year's

From 17-19 July, eleven students from BGGS and ten from BGS participated in the ECOMAN Enterprise Education Program. This event was hosted by Corrs Chambers Westgarth at Waterfront Place. The focus of this program was to provide students with an understanding of what it takes to run a company and operate in the business world The simulation required us to take on various management roles such as CEO. Marketing Director, Human Resources Manager, Production Manager and Finance Manager. We ran our companies for a simulated four years, surviving through a recession. new competitors from Korea, and many other challenges, competing intensiveIy to have the highest share price at the end of the four years' While at the start of the programme few of us had the slightest idea of what EBIDTA, quality index or market share meant, by the end we were a lot more financially literate, and every company managed to raise its share price significantly. it was very rewarding to see the progress we made for our companies. as when we took over. the quality of our products was appalling and sales were very low. This program definitely opened up a possible new career path for many of us. We all thoroughly enjoyed it and learned much about company management giving us new considerations for future opportunities in this field

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EILIS REES 12 ENGLAND, COMMITTEE CAPTAIN

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