The Albertus Magnus Library was abuzz this week with a celebration of Australian books, authors and illustrators. Internationally renowned performance poet Joel McKerrow was a special guest in the library on Wednesday, 22 August entertaining a lunch time audience of students and staff with a performance of his self penned poetry. In addition, two small groups of Year 7 students were treated to a ...

On 15 August, Siena College hosted the second Junior Gifted and Talented Day for 2018. Over 70 students from Avila, PLC and Scotch College joined an enthusiastic group of Siena girls to participate in the Junior Stretch and Challenge Day. The conference was an intensive one day program of short lectures for Year 8 and 9 students, presented by Julie Arliss, Farmington Fellow at Oxford University an...

The 2018 theme for National Science Week was ‘Game Changers, Change Makers’ and to celebrate, the Science Department scheduled a number of engaging lunchtime and class activities. We started the celebrations with the lunchtime screening of ‘Hidden Figures’ in the Hall. Students crunched on tasty popcorn while watching this film based on the true story of the women who worke...

Year 7 Language Study Students at Siena College have the opportunity to study Chinese, French and Italian. Before starting at Siena, students choose two languages to trial in Year 7, one in each semester. At the end of the year, students decide which of the two languages they would like to continue studying in Years 8 and 9. The current Year 7 students are in the process of making this decision. B...

On Wednesday 26 July, Siena College hosted an Enrichment day for Year 9 students from the Boroondara Cluster. Students from Scotch College, Genazzano, Strathcona, and Camberwell Girls Grammar joined five Year 9 students from Siena to participate in the following areas: Philosophy, Psychology and Debating. The first session was facilitated by Mrs Bronwyn Ilott, exploring questions such as 'What is ...

We have been very fortunate here at Siena to have three authors visit over the past couple of months to work closely with the budding writers amongst our cohort. Students have had the opportunity to hear these published authors speak and to take part in writing workshops. Our first visit was from young adult crime writer Ellie Marney. Ellie chatted to students in the Library at lunch and then work...