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Creativity, Resilience and the Future
Across generations, learning at MGGS has welcomed change, fostered innovation and stayed connected to developments in education globally. Where emerging trends have signaled new knowledge frontiers, our curriculum has adapted and our Grammarians’ skills and capabilities have been expanded while their wellbeing has been supported through co-curricular activities.
Activities outside the classroom assist in building resilience, fostering creativity and ensuring innovative thinking. These are the pillars that support us as a learning community focused on preparing our students for an ever-changing world.
One component of our vision is nurturing, encouraging and facilitating artistic expression and exploration. These are some of the important building blocks of a well-rounded education, which help to shape our Grammarians into action-orientated individuals with problem-solving mindsets. They possess the ability to adapt to unfamiliar situations and new ways of working. Collaboration, reflection, imagination are critical, irrespective of the field of endeavour our graduates pursue.
This year the School published a commemorative book, Lines of Flight, to mark our 130th anniversary. Lines of Flight provides insight into the School’s history; it offers glimpses into life, teaching and culture at the School against the social development of Melbourne over the last 130 years. Chapter Seven is titled ‘Creative Spaces’; where author Adjunct Professor Erica McWilliam AM looks back and reflects on our story so far in the development of, amongst other things, the curious and creative individuals who have graced our corridors and discusses the possibilities Melbourne Girls Grammar provided for these creative women.
“When the School was first established in South Yarra as Merton Hall, there were few ‘taking off’ points for middle class women looking to launch into a successful solo career in the arts or anywhere else ...”
As this edition of the Information Exchange exhibits beautifully, the School continues its heritage of strong artistic spirit and our talented Grammarians are encouraged to develop not only their artistic skills across a range of media, but their curiosity and confidence to turn their ideas into creative expression. Our students go forth from our red brick walls with the tools they need to achieve, as evidenced by the Old Grammarians who have received recognition across a wide spectrum of artistic industries.
Despite our ongoing support and encouragement of the artistic endeavours of the Grammarians within Merton Hall, the opportunities available to female creatives in the wider world have not always been so well supported. Members of the community may not know of the School’s links with pivotal Australian artists such as Arthur Streeton and Penleigh Boyd, whose works feature in our Drawing Room, nor the struggles of young alumnae, such as painters Hilda Rix Nicolas and Clarice Beckett, printmakers Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers, or playwright Hannie Rayson, as they battled to break through the artistic glass ceiling in their respective eras. In Lines of Flight, McWilliam shares these stories and explores the strength of spirit that is developed through the educational opportunities, inherent at our School over the years. Overwhelmingly, the stories within Lines of Flight delineate depict and celebrate the power of individual voice and a willingness to face whatever challenges may lie ahead, with courage.
Please enjoy a few photos from our archives, depicting students from all eras taking part in visual arts, drama and music learning and performances.
Activities outside the classroom assist in building resilience, fostering creativity and ensuring innovative thinking. These are the pillars that support us as a learning community focused on preparing our students for an ever-changing world.
One component of our vision is nurturing, encouraging and facilitating artistic expression and exploration. These are some of the important building blocks of a well-rounded education, which help to shape our Grammarians into action-orientated individuals with problem-solving mindsets. They possess the ability to adapt to unfamiliar situations and new ways of working. Collaboration, reflection, imagination are critical, irrespective of the field of endeavour our graduates pursue.
This year the School published a commemorative book, Lines of Flight, to mark our 130th anniversary. Lines of Flight provides insight into the School’s history; it offers glimpses into life, teaching and culture at the School against the social development of Melbourne over the last 130 years. Chapter Seven is titled ‘Creative Spaces’; where author Adjunct Professor Erica McWilliam AM looks back and reflects on our story so far in the development of, amongst other things, the curious and creative individuals who have graced our corridors and discusses the possibilities Melbourne Girls Grammar provided for these creative women.
“When the School was first established in South Yarra as Merton Hall, there were few ‘taking off’ points for middle class women looking to launch into a successful solo career in the arts or anywhere else ...”
As this edition of the Information Exchange exhibits beautifully, the School continues its heritage of strong artistic spirit and our talented Grammarians are encouraged to develop not only their artistic skills across a range of media, but their curiosity and confidence to turn their ideas into creative expression. Our students go forth from our red brick walls with the tools they need to achieve, as evidenced by the Old Grammarians who have received recognition across a wide spectrum of artistic industries.
Despite our ongoing support and encouragement of the artistic endeavours of the Grammarians within Merton Hall, the opportunities available to female creatives in the wider world have not always been so well supported. Members of the community may not know of the School’s links with pivotal Australian artists such as Arthur Streeton and Penleigh Boyd, whose works feature in our Drawing Room, nor the struggles of young alumnae, such as painters Hilda Rix Nicolas and Clarice Beckett, printmakers Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers, or playwright Hannie Rayson, as they battled to break through the artistic glass ceiling in their respective eras. In Lines of Flight, McWilliam shares these stories and explores the strength of spirit that is developed through the educational opportunities, inherent at our School over the years. Overwhelmingly, the stories within Lines of Flight delineate depict and celebrate the power of individual voice and a willingness to face whatever challenges may lie ahead, with courage.
Please enjoy a few photos from our archives, depicting students from all eras taking part in visual arts, drama and music learning and performances.
Activities outside the classroom assist in building resilience, fostering creativity and ensuring innovative thinking. These are the pillars that support us as a learning community focused on preparing our students for an ever-changing world.
One component of our vision is nurturing, encouraging and facilitating artistic expression and exploration. These are some of the important building blocks of a well-rounded education, which help to shape our Grammarians into action-orientated individuals with problem-solving mindsets. They possess the ability to adapt to unfamiliar situations and new ways of working. Collaboration, reflection, imagination are critical, irrespective of the field of endeavour our graduates pursue.
This year the School published a commemorative book, Lines of Flight, to mark our 130th anniversary. Lines of Flight provides insight into the School’s history; it offers glimpses into life, teaching and culture at the School against the social development of Melbourne over the last 130 years. Chapter Seven is titled ‘Creative Spaces’; where author Adjunct Professor Erica McWilliam AM looks back and reflects on our story so far in the development of, amongst other things, the curious and creative individuals who have graced our corridors and discusses the possibilities Melbourne Girls Grammar provided for these creative women.
“When the School was first established in South Yarra as Merton Hall, there were few ‘taking off’ points for middle class women looking to launch into a successful solo career in the arts or anywhere else ...”
As this edition of the Information Exchange exhibits beautifully, the School continues its heritage of strong artistic spirit and our talented Grammarians are encouraged to develop not only their artistic skills across a range of media, but their curiosity and confidence to turn their ideas into creative expression. Our students go forth from our red brick walls with the tools they need to achieve, as evidenced by the Old Grammarians who have received recognition across a wide spectrum of artistic industries.
Despite our ongoing support and encouragement of the artistic endeavours of the Grammarians within Merton Hall, the opportunities available to female creatives in the wider world have not always been so well supported. Members of the community may not know of the School’s links with pivotal Australian artists such as Arthur Streeton and Penleigh Boyd, whose works feature in our Drawing Room, nor the struggles of young alumnae, such as painters Hilda Rix Nicolas and Clarice Beckett, printmakers Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers, or playwright Hannie Rayson, as they battled to break through the artistic glass ceiling in their respective eras. In Lines of Flight, McWilliam shares these stories and explores the strength of spirit that is developed through the educational opportunities, inherent at our School over the years. Overwhelmingly, the stories within Lines of Flight delineate depict and celebrate the power of individual voice and a willingness to face whatever challenges may lie ahead, with courage.
Please enjoy a few photos from our archives, depicting students from all eras taking part in visual arts, drama and music learning and performances.
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In 2023, the School has its Strategic Development Framework firmly in place and our Strategy 2020-25 defines a clear vision for the School. These documents reflect and respond to the issues of our time. We strive for a diverse, rigorous and holistic learning experience at MGGS; one that is cognisant of the educational enrichment of creative pursuits, of knowledge acquisition that can be shared and adapted to new situations, and programs that foster the requisite skills our students will need when they leave the safety of our red brick walls to become leaders and change makers of tomorrow. Stimulating opportunities within the Arts is intrinsically part of the vision; to be a creative thinker means that the possibilities are endless, but with confidence they can be explored to their fullest potential.
To purchase a copy of Lines of Flight click here.
In 2023, the School has its Strategic Development Framework firmly in place and our Strategy 2020-25 defines a clear vision for the School. These documents reflect and respond to the issues of our time. We strive for a diverse, rigorous and holistic learning experience at MGGS; one that is cognisant of the educational enrichment of creative pursuits, of knowledge acquisition that can be shared and adapted to new situations, and programs that foster the requisite skills our students will need when they leave the safety of our red brick walls to become leaders and change makers of tomorrow. Stimulating opportunities within the Arts is intrinsically part of the vision; to be a creative thinker means that the possibilities are endless, but with confidence they can be explored to their fullest potential.
To purchase a copy of Lines of Flight click here.