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...

Friday, 27 July was National Tree Planting Day. 8B Geography class decided that we would like to plant some trees around the school to celebrate. At first, Mrs Moore thought that we could dig the holes for the trees ourselves, until she later found out that there was actually a tennis court underneath where we would be digging! Therefore, Mrs Moore decided to request some help! On the morning of t...

Early in Term 3, Siena College proudly hosted the first of two Junior Gifted and Talented Days for 2018. Over 140 students from the local schools 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 7, 8 and 9 students, presented by Julie Arliss, Farmington Fellow at Oxford Uni...

On Wednesday, 25 July, the following Year 10 and 11 students attended the Philosothon and Ethics Olympiad at Scotch College: Matilda Baker, Lily Dickenson, Adrienne Duray, Sophie Gurney, Angelina Haj, Gabrielle Mannix, Madeleine Mitra, Sasha Pittorino, Velentina Boulter, Jade Devlin, Claire Garwoli, Yasmin Howard, Rebecca Hwang, Teresa Meese, Ashley Moran, Claire Sullivan, and Olivia Wilhelm. They...