In 2022 we have welcomed eight new students and their families into the Year level. We have three students from regional Victoria joining the Boarding House.

The students have all happily returned to School and settled earnestly into their studies. They have enjoyed the variety and depth of the elective program, as well as enjoying the new structure of Geography.  The Critical Conversation program, based around the core Geography curriculum has been challenging and exciting for all of the students. Further information on the exciting Harkness-inspired Critical Conversations program for our Year 9 girls, within Humanities, can be found here.

Early in the term, we spent some time with students from the Student Executive and created drawings on the windows in the Year 9 area, based on the Year 12 theme of ‘Emerge’. The students in House Groups each drew a lotus and wrote some reflections and comments about the year ahead. Each student made a ‘gratitude origami crane’, for another student who had undertaken something kind for them in the first few weeks of school. In addition to this, the students spent time in House Groups with the Year 12 leaders.

As we embrace the term we are continuing to encourage the students in Year 9 to become involved in the Co-curricular offerings of our School. The students have signed up for the Duke of Edinburgh Program and are starting to think about St Catherine’s Student Leadership Diploma. Many students are preparing for the Term 1 school holiday hiking trip to Tasmania, which will become a part of the physical component of the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

In addition to this, the students are looking forward to the offerings of the Global Exchange Program, domestic exchanges, and the Year 9 Camp program.

We had 30 students across the Year level involved in the Rowing Program this season. They have been committed and dedicated to training throughout the term and we congratulate them for their Head of Schoolgirls Regatta performances over the weekend.