Did you know that Siena has had a number of community dogs? In the 1940s, Jock was a special presence for all the community, students and staff, and especially for Mother Magdalen Christie. In a newspaper clipping from 1983, Joyce Williams, a Siena student during the 1940s, says '…he would sit next to her, gradually leaning until he was half asleep against the skirt of her habit.' Jock was...

The aim of the Building bridges program is to promote mutual understanding, respect and ethical behaviour across our cultural and religious diversities and develop competent emerging global leaders. Over 2,400 students have participated since the program commenced in 2004, with more than 350 students from twenty-six independent schools taking part in the 2017 program. Each year, students engage i...

Year 12 student, Kate McDonald, has returned from the Pacific Rim Championships with two bronze medals. Kate came third in the uneven bars individual event, and the Australian girls won bronze overall in the teams placings. Congratulations, Kate! Image: Kate and her coach, Jeb Silsbury.

On Wednesday, 9 May, Charlotte Goldfinch, Mikayla Rollnik and Abbey Harford joined fifty other Year 8 students at Fintona Girls School for a day of Creative Commerce entitled Can your Business Survive and Thrive or will it Dive? Participating schools included Scotch College, Camberwell Girls Grammar, Strathcona, Kingswood College, and Camberwell Grammar School. A guest speaker from the financial m...

At this time of year many of the universities and other tertiary institutions hold events to introduce secondary students to the world of tertiary study and what courses and careers are available. In this week’s Siena Career News you will find all the upcoming dates for the My Melbourne Future series of course information presentations. These are great to attend and perhaps not as overwhelmi...

Mt Scopus Smorgon Outreach program Each year, as part of the comparative component of Religion and Society Unit 1, our Year 11 students engage in Interfaith Dialogue with our neighbouring Jewish school, Mount Scopus College. We participate in a peer-to-peer run program designed to encourage and support the students from both schools to explain their faith tradition to the other. An experience of ...