Year 9 Camp: A Powerful Learning Program
The Year 9 camp has a unique capacity to impact students in ways that cannot be achieved in the normal classroom context.
2019 Middle Years Award Winners
Congratulations to all the girls who were recognised at the Awards Night on Wednesday.
What are your family’s Christmas rituals?
Christmas rituals are important. They tether us to something greater than ourselves. They help instill in us a sense of connection and belonging.
Year 8s Thrive on Explore8
It’s been exciting times for the Year 8s over the past two weeks. Their involvement in Explore8 means they have been off the traditional timetable for ten days and working on their own design-thinking, extended project.
Exploring Reconciliation With Ingrid Cumming
Ingrid Cumming spoke to Year 8 students at Explore8 about her business, NoongarPedia, innovation and reconciliation. She was inspiring and offered a unique perspective to the program.
Santa Students On Exchange
This year, 11 French and Italian Language students in years 10 and 11 will be traveling to Italy or France on exchange. Students will be spending 6 or 8 weeks immersing themselves in the Italian or French language and culture.
The Old Girl Connection
In 2017, the Old Girls initiated an in-house service program where past students would assist our Golden Girls with small …
7 Reasons You And Your Kids Should Keep A Journal
Journalling is considered an old fashioned practice. Yet, it is the sort of creative and reflective endeavour that can make all the difference to our kids.
Goodbye and Hello
It’s time to farewell OGA Coordinator, Jacqui Daniels (1986) and welcome to the role Raechell Craig (1990)
Year 6s ‘Sell It’
Year 6s showed creativity and teamwork in designing, advertising and selling products for their ‘Sell It’ project.
Mentor Project Celebration
The SMCOGAÂ love to celebrate friendship and connection and this is what we did at the Mentoring Celebration.
Celebrating Our Golden Girls
Our annual Golden Girls Luncheon was a wonderful celebration of friendship and community for the Santa Maria Old Girls.
Future10
This year our Year 10 students will be participating in a brand new Enhanced Learning Program called Future10.
Identifying Mental Health Problems In Teenagers
Mental health difficulties among teenagers are on the rise. This interview discusses how to recognise these difficulties in our young people.
How To Help Your Child Make New Friends
Transitions are often daunting for kids. The thing they worry about most is making friends. How can you help in a way that is effective and empowering?
Study Tips…From Past Year 12s
Tips from past students on the techniques they used in preparing for tests and exams. A useful list to share with your daughter.
Wise Advice from Dads of Girls
Father’s Day is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the wisdom of dads. Here are 10 pieces of valuable advice for dads of girls, from dads of girls.
Let’s stop saying, “Let it go”
The inconvenient truth about painful emotions and traumatic experiences is that you can’t let them go. And if you try, you will fail. So what should we be saying instead?
