With the impending Siena Immersion experience at Kopanang, near Johannesburg, South Africa, the Year 11 Politics class along with Immersion participants conducted a mock election to raise funds for our South African friends. Six 'candidates' from the main Australian political parties delivered probing speeches covering current pertinent policies. The receptive crowd was encouraged to buy as many ...

Our School Captains are featured in the Leader News, sharing what their generation will contribute to the future. You can collect a copy of the Leader News here Jade Devlin, 18 Our world is a turbulent place in a constant state of change, from our future jobs to the climate. Our generation will have to face challenges never seen before with the proliferation of technology. So, how do we make a las...

Student Leadership News The Year 7 and 8 Leadership Workshop Series commenced on Monday, 18 March, with forty enthusiastic students participating. The first two sessions have focused on the principles of servant leadership, and leadership in a Dominican context. The next workshop will be on Thursday, 28 March, with a focus on Student Leadership at Siena College, and students will be briefed on the...

Student Reflection On Monday, 18 March we participated in a session with ‘Robogals’, an inspiring group of women in engineering. With a combined class of Year 9 and 10 students, the ‘Robogals’ placed us into groups of two or three and gave each group a robot. They also gave us a computer, with the program Mindstorms on it, designed to communicate with the hardware of the ro...

Student Reflection In Week 6, the Year 12 Literature class had the opportunity to participate in an incursion where actors performed scenes from Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. We were fortunate to share this experience with students from Koonung Secondary College and Camberwell Girls’ Grammar School, who are also studying the play. The skilful performances of the actor...

Student Reflection: On Tuesday, 19 March, the combined Year 11 and Year 12 VCE Music Performance class attended the Top Class Concert of 2019, at the Melbourne Recital Centre. The concert is composed of students who have completed either Music Performance, Music Investigation or VCE VET Music Industry in the previous year, and who achieved a perfect score in their performance exam. They are the...