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VCE Premier’s Award for High Achieving Student

6 August 2021 Year 12 student Eliza O’Sullivan has received one of the State’s highest academic honours, a 2020 Premier’s VCE Award for Extended Investigation, which she undertook as a Year 11 student last year. Head of Girton Grammar School, Dr Clayton Massey, said that Eliza had worked hard to […]

SisterWorks and Girton Warming Winter

27th July 2021 Before being interrupted by the current lockdown, “the Sisters” from SisterWorks were busy repurposing donated woollen Girton school jumpers for distribution by the Bendigo Winter Night Shelter. The Bendigo Winter Night Shelter (BWNS) is a volunteer organisation working with local churches, community groups, businesses and individuals to […]

Introducing Dr Judith Locke

From the Deputy Head eLink (Friday 11th June 2021) Community building is something that schools do well. In part, this is because the definition of good teaching mirrors the definition of good parenting. Good teaching and good parenting both rely on being responsive to the hand you have been dealt. […]

Year 7 Students Walk and Talk

7th June 2021 Year 7 Girton students are the first school children to participate in a La Trobe University research project that involves spending fifteen minutes of House Tutor group time walking and talking in and around school grounds. La Trobe University’s Centre for Sport and Social Impact will measure […]

1930’S Chicago Comes to Girton’s Black Box Theatre

14th May 2021 Rehearsals for this year’s Senior School production are underway, and this year’s Production Captains tell-all about the grimy gangsters who are set to parody the rise of Hitler and Fascism through the character portrayal of Arturo Ui, who embodies Hitler, Al Capone and the general traits of […]

Red Shield Appeal is Back!

3rd May 2021 After a digital door knock in 2020, the Salvation Army today launched the return of their annual Red Shield Appeal doorknock at Girton Grammar School, which has supported Salvation Army fundraising for more than twenty-eight years and raised more than $250,000. Speaking at the Bendigo launch of […]