Grammar Gazette- Issue 1, 2011

fuffiWWffiffiffi Thank you so much for inviting us to the GaLa Concert last Saturday. It was a wonderful evening and an amazirLgly professional show for a secondary school - well for just about anyone! A great success!! PROF PAUL GREENFIELD AO & MRS LOUISE GREENFIELD (Past Parents) My recent experiences have only served to furth er reinforce my firm belief that Girls Grammar is the right school to create the leaders of tomorrow by creattng an ethos where the girls arc expected to maintatn a high standard of uniform, decorum and behaviour whilst in the public eye; encouragement is given to the girls to challenge socially constructedbarriers, glass ceilings and other gender- influenced blocks to success and for not apologising or minimising the successes ofwomen in our society. DR FIONA HAWTHORNE (Current Parent) Our reunion daywas a lot of fun but also atrme for reflection and for recognition of the web of connection that exists among us, however far apart in space and time our subsequent lives may have been.The School is in many ways far difrerent from the one we attended, yetwe were able to see that tt rctarns so much of the spirit we knew. But what most would agree was truly astonishing was the new Cherrell Hirst CreativeLearning Centre. We felt that this outstanding facthity,with its impressive music and arts studios, was testimony to the School's commitment to the value of a strong humanities education Ln prcparing students to lead wise, ethical and productive lives. DR RUTH BLAIR AND Ms JUNE FoX (Class 0f 1960)

I thought you would like to know about one of your lovely girls who helped out at a fundraising High Teawe held last weekend for apatientof mine. It is reassuring for me to see such a sense of kindness and selflessness in our youth. This is no doubt a reflection of the values thx are passed on to her at home and school. Service to others,I find, is one of the greatest builders of self esteem and tt comes in the reahsationthat each of us has the power to make a difrerence. She was a great example of the calibre ofyoung women coming out of your school. Congratulations. DR NICOLA LARWILL I am absolutely amazed at the change in the School. The development has been phenomenal. It is really a mini-university! Education has developed so much since the days I was at school. Young people in western countries have so many opportunities nowadrys - andyet there are still people in other parts of the world who lack basic needs. I was hupry to see there is a programme to sensitize the girls to the needs of people among them, and give them a chance to reach out to them (each form used to knit two squares thatwere sewn into arugt in our daysrto be sent to the "mission s" , at least we did know about the disparity in life opportunities). SR MARY MAGDALEN O.C.D. (Desley Frost, Class 0f 1960) Thank you so much for sending me the Grarnmar Gazette, and for welcoming me back into the alumni community.

Cover lmage Photography: Greg Gardner

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