St Margaret's School and Berwick Grammar School in Berwick, Victoria | Education

St Margaret's School and Berwick Grammar School

Locality: Berwick, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9703 8111

Address: 27 - 47 Gloucester Avenue 3806 Berwick, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.stmargarets.vic.edu.au

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24.01.2022 Today our senior girls were challenged to think about their own leadership empowerment. Dr Middleton introduced the girls to the work of the great philosopher Marcus Aurelius after which the girls focused on their own footprints and the affirmative steps they can take as leaders of our school.

24.01.2022 If you are looking for an activity on a Friday lunchtime when we are back on campus, why not try the Dungeons and Dragons Club at the Senior Boys Campus? This is attracting boys from a wide variety of year levels and is led by Callum and Joel in Year 12. What a great way to use the power of your imaginations!

23.01.2022 Year 7 students had a terrific time today, working on a science catapult design experiment with pre-service teacher Miss Dunwoody from Melbourne University.

23.01.2022 What a wonderful way to end their week! In Year 7 Music, students are learning to play duets on the piano/keyboard. Using the familiar ‘Ice Cream Chords’ harmony and several songs that fit with this chord structure, students develop a duet to play including both harmony and melody parts and incorporating some improvisation an activity that can be adapted to students at any level of piano proficiency. Vienna Thornton and Sandrine Nugara are well on their way to an entertaining performance!

22.01.2022 With Christmas just around the corner, many of us are beginning to wonder about what gifts to get our kids. Thinking of a tech-based gift? The e-safety Commissioner’s Office has released a gift guide to tech gifts this Christmas it covers a wide range of items, detailing appropriate ages and safety concerns. You can find it here: https://bit.ly/379R3g5

22.01.2022 Leading VCE Results 2020 was a year where the words 'pivot' and 'resilience' entered our everyday vernacular and nowhere was it practiced more than by our VCE students who showed their true character. In partnership and with the support of their dedicated teachers, they learnt more about themselves as learners, rising to challenges of new normal, displaying our values of Courage, Curiosity, Character and Respect. ... We acknowledge the outstanding results and achievements of our duxes: For Senior Girls Annie Wu who achieved an ATAR of 99.80 For Senior Boys Oliver Ward who achieved an ATAR of 98.15 Of our Senior Girls 36% achieved an ATAR over 95 and 52% an ATAR above 90, placing them in the top 5% and 10% of the nation respectively. Of our Senior Boys 27% achieved an ATAR over 90 and 48% an ATAR above 85, placing them in the top 10% and 15% of the nation respectively. 4 perfect scores of 50 were attained in Applied Computing: Data Analytics, English, Further Maths and Health and Human Development. We are proud of all our students and look forward to following the trajectories they take in life, with the same care and concern we felt for them at school. Ms Annette Rome, Principal Mrs Fiona Templar, President of Council

21.01.2022 Congratulations to Georgia Tivendale and Daizi Plumb for their amazing equestrian performances. Daizi Plumb rode her horse DP London to become the State Showing Champions 2020 at the recent Victorian Interschool Championships at Werribee. Georgia Tivendale gave a highly successful performance at the Victorian Interschools Event. She won the coveted Combined Training 105cm event and also took out the award for Best Performed Off the Track horse. A wonderful result for horse and rider.

21.01.2022 Term 4 Year 7 Empower sessions have provided students the opportunity to creatively reflect on their St Margaret’s journey so far and also look ahead to the future - 5 years to be exact! Led by the House Representatives, students spent the session filming their Year 12 Valedictory Dinner Project which will be shared with their cohort, teachers and parents in their final few weeks with us in 2025 special memories to capture!

21.01.2022 Holiday Care Program Looking for an engaging holiday program for your kindergarten or primary school-aged children? Run and managed by Extend, the St Margaret’s and Berwick Grammar School Holiday Program starts on 11 January running through to 27 January (7.30 am and 6.00 pm) at the Berwick Campus.... Children can get involved in a range of fun activities including sport, art and craft, science, singing and dancing. To find out more visit and register please visit https://www.extend.com.au//st-margarets-and-berwick-gramm/

20.01.2022 The year 8's study of science culminated in a dissection of a rat. I was so proud of these girls as they put aside their inhibitions to totally embrace this opportunity to view the organs of another mammal and relate those structures to those within their own bodies. Well done ladies!

19.01.2022 Junior School Presentation Night Mascot

17.01.2022 In another new experience for Transitions Week, boys tried Yoga to begin their day - and were surprised by how challenging it was! Yoga can be a great transition as it warms the body up for the day, and can often require so much focus that we enter a state of "flow". The final survey at the end of the week will show if the boys like Yoga as a way to start their day!

17.01.2022 STEM activities kept our Year 4 students engaged and active today. With design briefs in hand, they enjoyed the hands-on aspect of the process.

17.01.2022 The Wellbeing Hive returns this week to the online space, asking us all to consider our social media footprint. https://www.stmargarets.vic.edu.au//how-deep-is-our-socia/

16.01.2022 Year 8 Art task ‘It tastes like cardboard!’ Cardboard and paper construction food sculpture inspired by Pop Artists. A learning task that started at home which was then completed at school. Students experimented with different types of cardboard and cutting and joining techniques before beginning their construction.

15.01.2022 Back in a short lockdown, monitoring our wellbeing becomes all the more important. Is it time for you to take the advice we gave our senior students, and BE LIKE BATMAN? Want to know more? Then read this Wellbeing Hive article... https://www.stmargarets.vic.edu.au/wellbein/be-like-batman/

13.01.2022 Our Year 9 leaders stepped into their roles with enthusiasm and purpose, during the much anticipated Themes and Dreams rehearsals, which began this week.

13.01.2022 We talk a lot in this space about the important of balance and maintaining your mental health - but how do you know if you have strong and positive mental health? Perhaps try reading this Wellbeing Hive article! https://www.stmargarets.vic.edu.au//how-do-you-know-you-h/

12.01.2022 This week some of our Year 5 and 6 students took the opportunity at lunchtime to link up with Year 6 students from Firbank Grammar (Sandringham House) to view their live virtual PYP Exhibition presentations via Microsoft Teams. It was great to see our students actively involved in listening, asking questions and providing wonderful feedback to their PYP peers, and again showed the value of belonging to and engaging with the PYP community as an IB World School. Here is a copy of the message we received from Firbank afterwards: ‘Thanks again Melissa. All our kids are raving about how wonderful your students were as an audience. Please make sure you congratulate them on that.'

10.01.2022 Our Little Unicorns Playgroup is open to all school families and the wider community. To find out more please visit: https://www.stmargarets.vic.edu.au//st-margarets-early-le/

10.01.2022 To find out more and to join our holiday program run by Extend please visit: https://www.extend.com.au//st-margarets-and-berwick-gramm/

10.01.2022 We were delighted to share the Junior School Presentation Evening 2020 tonight, online. If you missed this special event, you can watch it online on our YouTube Channel - see link below https://youtu.be/ijS3MUoVpoo #smsbgs #studentcelebration #learning #onlineevents

09.01.2022 What a weekend! We've now sold well over 50% of all tickets - get in quick and secure at a seat to the 2021 Whole School Production of , .. We're really looking forward to this special event in our community and would love to have you share this, with us. For tickets, click here - t.ly/erPp... #performingarts #Matilda #MusicalTheatre #smbgs

09.01.2022 It was the turn of Ms Stiles’ triumphant English class who celebrated winning the SMS Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge Year 8 competition.

08.01.2022 Year 8 Humanities students completed their History unit on medieval Japan by participating in a castle design competition. Students judged each other’s work for authenticity of design, historical accuracy and innovation and creation of the military defence systems. There were some amazing designs produced by all participants!

07.01.2022 Back on campus tomorrow - and back into the Science labs, where the Year 7 boys have been learning how to safely use the Bunsen Burner!

05.01.2022 Yesterday marked a special and nostalgic morning for senior school students, as weekly House meetings commenced face-to-face again. House captains introduced a new challenge for all mentor groups, to design and plan their mentors name and logo. Mentor group F, creatively named themselves ‘the Gipson Fire Fries’ and designed a very well thought out logo to represent themselves. Great work girls.

02.01.2022 Despite the challenges and restrictions COVID meant for us, the Berwick Grammar boys have still managed to win two SIS pennants. Here are some of the members of the SIS Chess Team celebrating their win, and the four members of the Debating Team who took our the top level debating trophy. What a wonderful triumph for Year 12 students Max Walton-Briggs and Oliver Ward, and with two more years of debating ahead, what a great achievement for Ovin Jayawardana and Sebastian Nugara of Year 10.