Grammar Gazette- Issue 2, 2004

From the School Leaders For allstudents, and particularly Year 125. Term 111 represented the academic climax of the Year More than ever, this is the time when we must all keep a balanced perspective, and make sure we do not lose the fun of School life. Before the Queensland Core Skills Test, the Year 12 students went back to their Year 7 days, dressing up in their primary school uniforms, eating pizza and dancing to the hits of 1999. All who attended

As we begin Term IV. and plan for the next phase of our lives it is a time of transition and wondering what the future holds. it is comforting to know that we will always be Grammar Girls and as past students we can continue to contribute positively to the Grammar community and to draw on the support of the School "it is the little things. .. happening throughout the School. .. that pull our community together and provide the support and balance we need" Vanessa Watson and Eininie Willis

overwhelming Iy enjoyed it and we believe it 15 little things like this, happening throughout the School at every level, that pull our community together and provide the support and balance we need The student executive suitably themed Term 111 "Get Square", following the Term I theme "Get Going", and in Term 11 "Get Involved'!

"Get Square" aimed to encourage all students to be honest and true to themselves and to those around them. Keeping with the academic focus of the Term, "Get Square" encouraged every girl to put her head down and study hard

reor 12590 buck to 1999

Past T ' mes and P esent Tributes

.

This Year marks the 120th anniversary of the completion of our oldest building on Gregory Terrace the gracious structure designed by Richard Galley as a Day and Boarding School The School has taken pride in the restoration of this 'signature' building so our community may enjoy its aesthetic qualities Recently, we welcomed Miss Nancy Shaw, Headmistress 1971 - 1976 to the naming of a conference room on the upper floor of our historic building to celebrate her leadership in the School Having led Fairholme College, Toowoomba, with distinction from 1954 to 1968. Miss Shaw possessed the skills that the early Seventies, a time of international student unrest and challenge to authority. demanded. Miss Shaw revised the Code of Behaviour and School Rules and ended the custom of measuring uniform length in inter minable inspections. She tiled to strike a liberal balance between the traditional, rather authoritarian practices of the past and student demands for greater freedom Another contentious issue was the replacement of the external Senior examination with the Radford System of internal assessment

.

..., .

.

v :.,. , ^.. . ... .,^;^. .",, ; ' ."

,

.,.

-.^

.

r

^. .,"

-- - -a ,>I

.? I^ ^

,,

<30

.

<

Miss NoncyShow, MISS Fel^tity Willtoms, Deputy Prtncipol; MsAmondo Bell, Piincipolond Dr thenel! Hint. AO, Choir of the Boord of Trustees

Miss Shaw asserts however. that this reform moved "the focus away from inconsequentials" to the development of a richer educational experience for students. NancY Shaw was an innovator - Initiating subject choice rather than running preset courses, beginning Education Extension Activities. appointing a School Counsellor and introducing a range of new subjects such as Music, Economics and Japanese She was Head of School for its Centenary which saw the completion of a new Library and the Humanities 18ainl Building

A number of Miss Shaw's staff appointments still teach in the School (a tribute to her perspicacity and their staminaj and they remember her with respect and admiration for her dignity, humour, humanity and utter integrity We may well hope that such qualities will prevail in all our deliberations in our new conference venue - the Nancy Shaw Room

Miss Felicity Williams Deputy Principal