Grammar Gazette- Issue 2, 2011

grammar gazette SPRING 2011

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Contents

16 Never give up

21 Opportunities for original music making

24 IT Needs Girls

Angelique Sweep and Lucinda Tonge, Head Girls

Mrs Maggie Golawska-Loye, Technology Studies Faculty

Mr Andrew Pennay, Head of Music

30 Our Rhodes Scholars

17 Fostering creative capacity

22 Infowhelm

Mrs Pauline Harvey-Short, Assistant Dean

Mrs Lorraine Thornquest, Director of Creative Arts

Ms Kate Kildey, Teacher Librarian

Mail

moment and I found Lorraine Thornquist’s article to be most helpful and insightful. I can see that I need to follow your work and that of your colleagues more closely in the future. Professor Brian J. Caldwell Managing Director, Educational Transformations Pty Ltd With my BGGS days almost 20 years behind me now, Jim Seaha’s article “Career Integrity is in the journey” really struck a chord with me. It’s great to hear that this is the message being conveyed to today’s senior students. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr Seaha’s important message—that career integrity often requires open-minded and thoughtful changes in direction; that life is long, and the most enjoyable path through it is often neither straight nor predictable. Ms Ingrid (Hadgraft) Viitanen (alumna 1992)

I just wanted to send a quick thank you to BGGS for a wonderful open evening on Friday. The displays for the various subjects were fantastic and we were very impressed with the tour of the school by two very lovely Year 10 girls. Our daughter’s only complaint is she has to wait another four and a half years to go there! Mr Malcolm and Mrs Tammy Robinson (enrolment parents) Thank you for sending me a copy of Insights 2010 . This is a remarkable publication which I spent a fair bit of time reading after opening the envelope. What astonishing intellectual capital you have among your senior staff. I was wondering how you managed to draw on it in to create such a readable high quality publication. Each contribution is a gem. Given my general interests in leadership I was particularly impressed with your own article. We are doing a lot of work in the arts at the

Belatedly I wish to register our thanks Dr Bell, at the time you set aside to meet with us prior to our daughter’s commencement at BGGS in Year 8. We were pleased to have the opportunity to meet with you in person and we certainly appreciated and benefited from our own interview. I thought it good form for you to highlight to our daughter that she will need to work hard at BGGS. It is definitely worth them getting their own head space right in regards to this! However we are also keen for her to have as much responsible fun as possible at the same time. You reassured me that fun is also on the cards. We spent several hours at Open Day and came away feeling excited about the coming association between the School and our family. Congratulations again on the incredible Creative Learning Centre.

The Alumni and Art event hosted in London on 16 July last was thoroughly enjoyable, thank you, and it was a great pleasure to meet you (Dr Bell) and the other ‘old girls’. Evidently the old school remains fresh in all our memories, and it was such fun to exchange anecdotes about teachers several of us recalled and even had in common. I last visited the school around four years ago and noticed and admired the great many changes. You must be very proud to have steered the school so admirably as the campus became one. In my day the word campus was more commonly used for extensive American universities, but BGGS most certainly deserves

the label today Ms Di Hammet (alumna 1965)

Ms Elizabeth Boden (Year 8 2012 parent)

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