In The Media

The Educator feature recent award recipient of Australia’s Rising Stars 2019, our Junior School Curriculum and Innovation Teacher Eleni Kyritsis and Strathcona’s impressive Tinker Train program.

Melbourne’s biggest weekend of the year for stickybeaks is fast approaching, so we’ve picked out some standouts from Open House Melbourne’s massive program of 200-plus buildings…Magnificent mansions will also open their doors, with no bookings needed, including Hawthorn’s 1890s Tay Creggan …

This year marks the 95th birthday of Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School and our prep students were excited to celebrate our 95 Days of School festivities.

Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School principal Marise McConaghy said phones were a useful learning tool and she was opposed to any ban. She said it was important that students learnt how to manage their phone use.

Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School Year 2 student Zoë, along with the support of the Year 6 Green Team — Sienna, Mia, Rajaani and Charlotte — recently wrote a letter to Strathcona’s principal Marise McConaghy, asking for consideration to remove plastic straws at the school canteen.

You are never too young to care about the world around you – or to speak up for what you believe in.

Thinking solutions for community problems: that’s the undercurrent promise of STEAM.

It’s being described as ‘synergy of discovery’, and the ‘exploration of design innovation’, combining skill sets across subjects like science, art, mathematics and engineering.

One of the finalists for the 2019 awards is Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is up for two award categories – Best Student Wellbeing Program and Best STEM Program.

When you think about your leadership style, do you see yourself as an owl, a lion, a peacock or a dog? Upon being asked this question, we, the handful of young female leaders attending the Leadership Forum, were confused to say the least.