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Our thanks to alumna Vanessa Barcellona (Class of 2001) for an inspiring and motivating speech to our Year 10 and 11 students today. Vanessa heads up Professional Services (Australia and New Zealand) at Amazon Web Services and spoke honestly about the challenges of finding work/life balance and making time for personal wellbeing. Vanessa stressed the importance of "skills stacking", saying yes to...
read moreOur ASPIRE Program invites local primary students to work with Year 8 Siena student mentors on STEAM based activities. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) education is an integrated curriculum designed to equip students with knowledge in these five disciplines whilst gaining valuable collaborative and analytical skills. In 2021, our ASPIRE participants are exploring...
read moreIn this special episode of Teaching Heroes, Dr Jo Winchester chats with teacher Bronwyn Ilott about feminism - how they grapple with feminism in their own lives, and how they discuss this issue in the classroom. They also discuss the issue of teaching consent in schools. This episode was recorded and launched on 15 March, 2021 in solidarity with the women marching all over Australia for March for ...
read moreAt our College Assembly last week, 蜜柚直播 Alumna Olivia Kourmadias, from the Class of 2018, was acknowledged. In her brief time since finishing at Siena, Olivia is driving the Monumental Women campaign, through the youth led organization Jasiri, which will 鈥渟mash the bronze ceiling鈥 by addressing the lack of female representation in Australia鈥檚 statues, place names and architecture. This pr...
read moreEach year the Catholic Education Office hosts a Creative Arts Exhibition and invites Catholic schools across Victoria to submit entries for inclusion in the exhibition. This year, artwork from Jasmine Skutela, Jamie Coppen, Kira Acciaressi, Amy Kessler and Milla Testarotta were accepted. Milla Testarotta was also awarded the Creative Arts Committee Award Secondary for her series of three drawing e...
read moreSienaCast (our College podcast) is a collaboration between students and staff which aims to give voice to our College community on issues of significance and importance to us all. At the heart of SienaCast is our motto, Veritas (Truth). This special guest edition of SienaCast welcomes the college Dux of 2020 Elena Cruz back to 蜜柚直播. Elena joins Principal Elizabeth Hanney and college capt...
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