Mrs McClure welcomes the community to the 2025 school year and introduces new staff members.
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Welcome to the 2025 school year at Camberwell Girls Grammar School! I hope you had a wonderful holiday break and enjoyed some relaxing time with family and friends. Our students have returned with incredible energy and excitement for the year ahead. This year, we are proud to celebrate the School’s 105th anniversary. We will also commemorate the 60th anniversary of our merger with Ormiston Girls’ School, founded in 1848 as the first independent primary school for girls in Australia.
This year, we are welcoming 135 new students and their families to Camberwell Girls—55 students at Ormiston (our Early Learning and Junior School), 64 students in Year 7 and 16 students in Years 8 to 12. It is also important to acknowledge the significance of such a milestone for those students who are entering Early Learning 3, Foundation, and Year 7.
Once again, we are very proud of the results for the Class of 2024, including:
To date, 13% of the Class of 2024 have been awarded scholarships for tertiary courses, highlighting their academic achievements and co-curricular contributions. Additionally, four students have been selected for the 2025 VCE Season of Excellence in Top Designs, Top Talks, Top Scribe, and Top Class. The variety of tertiary course choices, scholarship offers, and VCE Season of Excellence recognition highlights our diverse curriculum, enabling students to excel and tailor their learning journey based on their strengths and passions.
I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to our VCE teachers for their unwavering dedication and support of the Class of 2024 during their final years of schooling. Additionally, it’s essential to recognise the teachers from earlier years who played a pivotal role in engaging, inspiring, and supporting the students throughout their journey to young adulthood.
This year, we have welcomed a number of new teachers with extensive experience and interests to Camberwell Girls for ongoing positions and a parental leave replacement role. They are:
We are also delighted to welcome back from leave Ms Jo Rittey, (Head of Languages), Ms Elsbeth Hadenfeldt (Language Conversations) and Ms Miriam Hoffman (Language Conversations).
Our Principal, Mrs Debbie Dunwoody, will be returning from a short period of long service leave next Friday 14 February. She looks forward to meeting parents and guardians at our welcome event that evening, hosted by our wonderful Parents & Friends Association. This event will be held in the Fig Tree Courtyard at the Secondary School Campus and will run from 7:00pm to 9:00pm, following on from our Years 7 to 12 Meet and Greet the Form/Tutor Teacher that commences at 6.30pm. I encourage you to book your complimentary ticket/s here.
At the very start of each school year, our staff gather for a commencement service led by our Chaplain, Rev. Helen Creed, at St Mark’s Anglican Church. This year, Helen delivered a message highlighting our rich heritage spanning 105 years, the intentions of the heart, our connected community, and the holistic education we offer, with wellbeing at its core. She summed it up beautifully with her words of wisdom:
“What students need is, first of all, a secure, loving home; then teachers who love their subject area as well as the young people in their care; and around that, a surrounding village that inspires children to contribute to their community in their own unique ways.”
May we continue to partner with you to create a surrounding village for our students throughout 2025.
With very best wishes for the year ahead.
Davina McClure
Acting Principal
Mrs McClure welcomes the community to the 2025 school year and introduces new staff members.
New and returning students have settled in nicely with various engaging transition programs.
It has been a time of discovery at the Junior School as students start a new school year.
Students enjoyed a fun photobooth to commemorate the start of the School's 105th anniversary.
