​On Saturday 5 November, after months of rehearsals and preparation, our Years 4 to 6 students will perform in our Junior School Production of The Little Mermaid. For some girls, it will be their first time performing on stage on front of a real audience and we wish them, and indeed all the girls, well as they enjoy this foray into show business!

​Term 4 is progressing with a buzz of excitement as girls and staff prepare for forthcoming examinations and/or end of year events.

Our Lowther Hip Hop Team ‘12th Edition’ have won their division at the Australian All Star Cheerleading Federation National Championships in Sydney on the weekend. As their score was the highest of any hip hop team competing, they are also given the title ‘Grand Champions’. Congratulations, girls!

​We are very proud of Year 3 student Gisele who has raised almost $2800 recently for the JDRF One Walk (the world’s biggest type 1 diabetes fundraising event).

​Our Year 12 girls finished their final day at Lowther Hall on Wednesday with the annual tradition of throwing their hats from the Mansion balcony! We wish all Year 12 girls the very best for their studies as they enter into their final exam period. Congratulations, and thank you girls, for your contribution and service to the School.

​This week we bid our final farewell to the Class of 2016. We have recognised them at formal assemblies, watched them toss their hats off the Mansion and been moved at their Valedictory service yesterday afternoon as they left the Cultural Centre symbolically carrying their light out into the world, ready to shine.

​Our 2017 Prefect Body were commissioned yesterday in a special service led by Bishop Philip Huggins. The ceremony also provided our school community the opportunity to thank our 2016 Prefect Body for all their hard work and dedication to the role.

​Congratulations to Sophie (Year 8), Grace (Year 9) and Zoe (Year 11) who have won silver at the National Schoolaerobics Championships on the Gold Coast recently.

​Rituals are a helpful way to make meaning and to demonstrate our values in a formal way and at this time of year, as we prepare for our Year 12 students to finish, head into the end of the academic semester and begin to elect leaders for 2017, rituals abound!

​It is always especially delightful to return home when you have been away, and this has been my experience returning to Lowther Hall this term after visiting our sister school in Japan during the September break. I was privileged to travel with Ms Tracy Healy to join the Senior School study tour