Edwina Wallace-Smith (10 Millward), along with her brother (William) and her sisters (Lucette and Rose), have a Grandmother who went to Girton Church of England Girls Grammar School in the 1940’s and 50’s. Her name was Mary Wallace and she was a Junior Prefect and then a Senior Prefect in […]
On Saturday 22nd March 2017, the class of 1997 got together and swapped stories from their school days 20 years ago. This resourceful cohort of Old Girtonians’ are doing a range of things now from Primary teaching and surveying to running hardware stores, farming, full time parenting, selling agriculture machinery […]
31st March, 2017 Old Girtonian and 2016 graduate and School Captain, Joseph Baldwin, competed at the Australian Athletics Age Championships in Sydney this week in the Under 20 high jump. He placed first with a jump of 2.22 m, which broke the meet record set in 2006 by 4 cm. This […]
In the OGA archives is a set of Girtonian Magazines dating back to 1929. The very earliest edition has now been scanned and other editions will follow suit. For those interested in the history of school, take a look at the 1929 Girtonian Magazine: 1929 Girtonian Magazine: click here to […]
The Class of 2007 had a wonderful 10 year reunion on Friday 17th March, catching up on old times and rekindling friendships with one another and with their favourite teachers. The cohort has pursued all manner of travel, jobs, friendships and family commitments since leaving school. From palliative care nursing, […]
2nd March, 2017 Two recent Girton graduates have moved to Melbourne to cut their teeth in the Performing Arts industry. One has joined the prestigious National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA) and the other has been selected to be a part of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Foundation […]
Meg McKinlay is exactly how you imagine, and in your mind, romanticise, an accomplished author of novels to be. One of those people who carries a little black book everywhere they go and who scribbles things down as they see them or even better, at surprisingly random moments when they […]
When Blake Reilly was interviewed for the 2016 OGA Departing Girtonian Scholarship, his goals for 2017 were clear. His first priority was to raise the $6,000 needed to fund the Young Diplomats Tour of Europe, for which he was one of only 16 students from across Australia selected by United […]
Nine staff members have been welcomed into the OGA by receiving an Honorary Life Membership for having worked at the School for 20 years. Congratulations to: (L to R) Paul Flanagan, Winsome Wastell, Jamie Turner, Cate Brewin, Jane Reaburn, Mo Watanabe, Penny Peachey. (Bill Montgomery and Dean Langley, not pictured). […]
It is not an easy thing to cut teeth in the Performing Arts but Blake Barnard (2009 School Captain) has managed to do just that and is more than comfortable with the unpredictable world of entertainment. Rather than lamenting the up and down nature of the industry he has decided […]
