SPORT • Minna Atherton (10B) competed at the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian Short Course Swimming Championships in Sydney, winning silver in the 50 m backstroke, bringing her world ranking to third for the 50 m backstroke short course (for the 2016 season). She also won bronze in the 100 m backstroke, making her the third fastest swimmer in Australia for this event. She was the recipient of the 2015 Queensland Junior Sport Star of the Year award at the 21st Annual Queensland Sport Awards. Minna won the following medals at the 2015 World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore in August: — g old (new World Junior record) in the 100 m backstroke, 200 m backstroke and 100 m women’s freestyle relay and — s ilver in the 50 m backstroke, 4x100 m mixed medley relay and 4x100 m women’s medley relay • Gabriella Palm (12L) was selected in the Australian Born ’98 Water Polo team that toured Europe in May • Eliza King (9E) participated in the Pacific School Games in Adelaide winning gold in the Girls 14 Years 200 m Freestyle, silver in the Girls 100 m and 50 m Freestyle and bronze in the 400 m Freestyle. She was also successful in the relays, winning five gold medals, including a record time of 1.59.41 in the Girls 14 Years 200 m Medley Relay • Emma Bills (11W) was selected in the Australian U16 Schoolgirls hockey team that will tour South Africa in 2016 • Abby Andrews (10W) and Olivia McDonald (12G) were selected in the Australian Schoolgirls Water Polo team • Elizabeth Moss (8E) won the U14 High Jump at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships, with a meet record of 1.73 m • Chelsea Windsor (11O) was selected as one of thirty girls to join the Netball Queensland Academy Squad and was selected in the Phase 2 Netball Queensland U17 Training Squad. Chelsea was also selected in the QGSSSA Representative Netball team that travelled to Melbourne in September • Olivia McDonald (12G), Gabriella Palm (12L), Emily Powell (11E), Lydia Pascoe (11O) and Abby Andrews (10W) were selected to join the Water Polo Queensland 2015 Emerging Athlete Program • Abby Andrews (10W), Sarah Lawlor (11B), Phoebe Ogilvie (11E), Lydia Pascoe (11O) and Emily Powell (11E) were selected for the 16 and Under Water Polo Queensland State Squad for 2015 • Madeleine Williams (11R), Sarah Tisdall (12O), Marni Hinton (12W) and Alix Haines (11R) were selected in the 2015 Queensland School Girls Eight rowing squad • Jessica Lakeman (11E) was awarded Umpire of the Year at the 2015 Queensland Netball Awards and achieved a National A Badge Accreditation for netball umpiring — the only umpire to receive this badge level in 2015 at the time and one of few to have received this badge level at sixteen years of age • Sally Finch (9H) was selected for the 2016 Netball Queensland Regional Academy programme
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• Xin (Rose) Xing (9B) broke the world record for a half marathon on the ergo (indoor rowing machine ) for 13–18 year old women • Sarah Tisdall (12O) was the Brisbane Girls Grammar School recipient of the Pierre du Coubertin Award which recognises secondary school students who demonstrate values which are consistent with the Olympic Movement through participation in sporting activities MUSIC AND THE ARTS • Chorale, Symphonic Winds and Wind Symphony were awarded a gold award and first place at the Queensland Youth Music Awards • Olivia Wong (11B) was a finalist in the Schools Category at the Queensland Music Awards for her song Mr Blue Moon • Carmen Zhu (11R) was a finalist in the 2015 Lord Mayor’s Young Environmental Photographer of the Year Awards for her photograph ‘Purple Bikes’ in the ‘Innovation for our Future’ Category
TEACHING EXCELLENCE APPOINTMENTS • Ms Jacinda Euler, Principal, was appointed as an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College at The University of Queensland. Ms Euler was also appointed to the Alliance of Girls Schools Association (AGSA) organising committee for the 2016 Australasia AGSA Conference in Brisbane. She was also invited to be a panellist at the Audi German Film Festival to discuss the education film Alphabet • Mrs Pauline Harvey-Short, Dean of School, was a panellist and speaker at the Women of the World Festival at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) • Dr Bruce Addison, Dean of Curriculum and Scholarship, co-ordinated Masters degree subjects in both leadership and curriculum through The University of Queensland’s Graduate School of Education • Mr Kent Walker, Director of IT, was invited to represent Queensland on the Association of Independent Schools NSW IT Conference organising committee • Ms Lea Walker, Director of Development and Alumni, was appointed to the Educate Plus Professional Association’s organising committee for the 2015 Queensland Conference on the Gold Coast as the Fundraising Stream Convener • Dr Sally Stephens, Director of Science, was selected for the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s 7-10 Australian Curriculum Working Group • Mr Mark Sullivan, Director of Instrumental Music, was invited to be Chief Adjudicator at the Victorian Schools Music Festival in Melbourne at the Hawthorn Arts Centre. He was also invited to be on a panel discussion — ‘Strings and Band: What’s the Difference’— and to adjudicate a string competition at the same conference
BRISBANE GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL 2015 Annual Review