Siena College has begun Term 4 sport with a busy first few weeks, with senior cricket and basketball games being held twice a week. Junior and intermediate basketball for Girls’ Sport Victoria (GSV) has also started, with fixtures through until late November. Siena College has had mixed results in basketball, with our senior (2 teams) and junior (6) teams winning and losing similar amounts o...

On Tuesday 18 September, five chess club students headed off early for Castlemaine to attend the Mount Alexander Schools Chess Challenge, which was held in the historic Old Castlemaine Gaol. Schools competing on the day included Castlemaine Secondary College, Girton Grammar, Bendigo South East, Melbourne High, Olivet CC, and Siena College. The games were timed with students playing seven games ea...

We are pleased to introduce our 2019 School Captains, Jade Devlin and Charlotte Lack. All of our applicants attended the Pillars Leadership course over two afternoons, which explored what it means to be a Dominican Leader, identified the College’s expectations of our leaders and explored the challenges of juggling leadership with senior studies. Girls benefited from hearing the lived experie...

Another busy and productive term has drawn to a close and I am sure everyone in our community is looking forward to a few weeks at a slower pace and some time to reflect. Last week we conducted interviews for 2019 College Captains. Eight students undertook a rigorous process of application, an interview with the Leadership Team and the presentation of their speeches at the College Assembly, to st...

The 2018 Victorian Chinese Language Teachers’ Conference was held at Camberwell Grammar School on 7 - 8 September. It was at Camberwell Grammar sixty years ago that Chinese language was taught for the first time in Victoria, and actually anywhere outside of China except for some Asian countries. Chinese has now become the most spoken community language in Victoria and one of the most taught ...

Members of the Siena Community gathered together on Friday, 7 September to participate in the annual Night of Change. Students, parents and staff entered into the evening with high spirits and generous hearts. Siena musicians, including the Stage Band and Year 12 students, entertained the crowd with their usual high quality performances. Families, friends and colleagues sat in teams, shared food a...