Grammar Gazette- Issue 2, 2015

CONTENTS

LETTERS

PAGE 01 / STEWARDSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY by Ms Elizabeth Jameson PAGE 02 / TO BE A LEADER IN EXCEPTIONAL SCHOLARSHIP by Ms Jacinda Euler PAGE 04 / SYSTEMATIC CURIOSITY IN TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH by Dr Bruce Addison PAGE 05 / EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS by Mrs Anna Owen PAGE 06 / SUCCESS TIMES TWO PAGE 07 / SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE by Mr Brendon Thomas PAGE 08 / JUDICIOUS AND ETHICAL ACTION by Mrs Anne Ingram PAGE 09 / ACTIVE SERVICE by Mrs Lynne Mungomery PAGE 10 / FACING CHALLENGES, FINDING CONNECTIONS by Mrs Katrina Riveros PAGE 12 / DESERT COLOURS ART TOUR by Elizabeth Cox (12R) PAGE 14 / BEYOND THE PICKET FENCE PAGE 16 / BROADENED HORIZONS by Mr James Seaha PAGE 18 / CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS by Mrs Pauline Harvey-Short PAGE 20 / MASTERING INNOVATION IN THE CLASSROOM PAGE 21 / PURPOSEFUL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT by Ms Michelle Allan PAGE 22 / RANGAKARRA NAMED PAGE 23 / OPEN DAY PAGE 24 / NEW ERA IN GIVING BEGINS by Ms Lea Walker PAGE 28 / SUPPORTING OUR GIRLS by Dr Fiona Harden

We absolutely loved coming to Open Day this year. There was so much to do and see and our family noticed how friendly and happy the students are. We cannot wait for our daughter to attend next year! Thanks for such a wonderful night. My highlight was listening to the Prospective Parents Information Session with Ms Jacinda Euler. I loved hearing how your school accepts all girls from all over Brisbane, and how every girl is looked after and will find her place in the school. KATHY DOCHERTY I would like to express my delight at seeing the front cover of Grammar Gazette , Volume 25 2015. The old girls in the background were my classmates when we started Grammar in February 1949. This photo was taken as these girls were leaving school at the end of our first day. We were all fourteen years of age and just as excited as the young girls in the front of the photo! Now we are all eighty. Thanks for the memories. MARGARET ALTHAUS (MALTMAN, 1952)

Margaret and Jeanette Lockey (Lolua, 1952) very generously helped with naming and dating the photo used on the Autumn 2015 cover of the Gazette – (left to right) Shirley Webber (Chambers, 1952), Alla Brunckhorst (Kravchenko, 1952), and Jeanette Lockey (Lolua, 1952).

I’m at ANU and I called our theatre complex for main lectures ‘Gehrmann’ the other day. Once a Grammar girl, always a Grammar girl! TIEN KELLY Lindy Johnson @LindyLouJohnson Jun 17 Thank you @BGGS for terrific visual art exhibition opening. You understand the critical importance of #creativity #visual #Art in #education.

Front cover: ‘Brisbane Girls Grammar School’ Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill, Brisbane by Jan Jorgensen (Goeldner, 1960), oil on linen canvas Commissioned by Brisbane Girls Grammar School to celebrate its 140th anniversary. Officially unveiled at Grammar Women in the Arts, 15 October 2015.