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Strathcona competition Open to all Years 5 to 11 Strathcona students. Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Pakistan. After the Taliban began attacking girls’ schools in Swat, Malala gave a speech in Peshawar, Pakistan, in September 2008. The title of her talk was, “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?” On

Over a hundred members of the community joined us at Balwyn Cinemas for the documentary ‘Screenagers’.  This event was designed to support families in their discussions about healthy technology use.  One of the suggestions made in the documentary was to develop a contract to clarify your family’s expectations about technology use.  To aid families in developing a contract,

Tuesday 11 September, 6.30pm-7.30pm, Featherstone Hall Please join us for the Opening Night of our Art Unstoppable Art Show. Children’s author Coral Vass (’91) will open the Arts Unstoppable – ELC to VCE Art Exhibition for 2018. As a successful woman working in the creative arts industry excels in the creative arts and embodies a

Wednesday 5 September, 6.00pm-7.00pm, Featherstone Hall, Senior Campus, 34 Scott Street, Canterbury Junior School parents and local support persons, come and join the Strathy Tinker Train with Miss Kyritsis and Mr Little at the Junior School Family Tinker & Maker night to complete a design challenge. Experience firsthand, the process our girls explore from initial

Monday 3 September and at 3.45pm at Featherstone Hall. We are very excited to announce, educational academic, Professor Erica McWiliam, will be delivering a presentation at Featherstone Hall next week. Prof McWilliam is an internationally renowned speaker whose presentation, Teaching After Trump, will explore the substantive work of building girls’ capacity for ethical deliberation. We

Thursday 25 & Friday 26 October 7.00pm-9.00pm, Tay Creggan, The Great Hall, 30 Yarra Street, Hawthorn The Year 9 Drama production of Romeo and Juliet is set in a war-ravaged contemporary setting. Though non-specific, the location could be battle-scarred Syria, devastated by warring factions. The young lovers belong to combating factions hostile to each other. Thus their love

What do our girls think about their fathers? And what are fathers struggling with when it comes to their relationship with their daughters? Madonna King, the bestselling author of Being 14, now tackles the complicated father/daughter relationship. Exploring a father’s role in his daughter’s life from a daughter’s perspective as well as the father’s, Madonna