At Siena, secure, respectful, and confident relationships create the foundation for learning, allowing students to enjoy a rich, engaging, and truly fulfilling education.

Siena College emphasises creating a welcoming, challenging and supportive environment where students feel valued and can develop both academically and personally.

We prioritise our Dominican values and wholeness, ensuring students leave our gates life-ready with a strong sense of self. We promote adaptiveness, self-reliance, resilience, strength and compassion. We celebrate our strong and vibrant community, united by diversity, inclusion and individuality.

We prepare young women for the future, by fostering a global and local worldview. Siena students are inspired to lead lives of purpose, discovering how their unique skills and passions can make a difference both within the College community and beyond the Siena gates.

Our dedicated Wellbeing Team, which includes the Deputy Principal of Wellbeing, Director of Students, Heads of House and College Counsellors, provides ongoing and proactive support for both students and parents.

Siena College holds the care, safety and wellbeing of young people as a central and fundamental responsibility.
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The Vertical House System

Through our ‘Vertical House System’, we enable students to develop lasting relationships across all year levels, providing a familial, secure and supportive environment for every Siena student.

Upon joining the College, each student is welcomed by their Head of House and House Group Teacher, who provide consistent mentorship as they journey through the College. With younger girls looking up to their older role models, and older students stepping into leadership roles, the Vertical House System fosters a strong sense of belonging, as our students engage in the many sports, activities and celebrations throughout the year.

Restorative Practice

In recognising that challenges may arise during the College years, we adopt an intentional and community-first approach to behavioural consequences, with the goal of supporting every girl, every day. At its heart, the Restorative Practice approach embeds the belief that in respecting ourselves, we learn to respect others. Through this lens, accountability for our actions becomes natural character traits for all Siena students. Rather than adopting a punitive approach to student wrongdoing, we emphasise connection – working with the student in an age appropriate way, so that they better understand the impact of their behaviour.

SchoolTV: A Digital Wellbeing Platform

Today's parents face a multitude of modern day challenges in raising happy, well and resilient young people. Whilst there is a great deal of information available, this can often be confusing and overwhelming for parents looking for guidance. SchoolTV addresses this in the form of an online resource, designed to empower parents with credible and sound information with realistic, practical and ongoing support strategies. An excellent feature of SchoolTV is that parents are able to access it whenever they want to, in their own time. Evidence based recommendations and strategies are provided by specialists who are experts in their field.

SchoolTV covers a range of student wellbeing topics that affect families. These include:

• Surviving Year 12
• School Transitions
• Exam Jitters
• Internet Addiction
• Social Media and Digital Reputation
• Cyberbullying
• Drug and Alcohol Use
• Depression
• Anxiety

To access SchoolTV, click the logo below: