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St Margaret’s Anglican Girls’ School

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Award-winning teacher shares what she loves most about teaching

St Margaret’s teacher Louise Brown, who recently received a prestigious National Excellence in Teaching Award, shares the three things she loves most about teaching, including grappling with important history questions respectfully in the classroom, working collaboratively with St Margaret’s colleagues and encouraging students by seeing something in students that they don’t see in themselves

Spotlight Q&A St John's Crisis Centre President Diann Eadeh with members of the Order of St John Spotlight Q&A

Q&A with St Margaret’s Old Girl, St John’s Crisis Centre President and Gold Coast Volunteer of the Year, Diann Eadeh

Meet Diann Eadeh and find out about her current projects and goals, her thoughts on NAIDOC Week and “Being Together: Embracing Joy”, how St Margaret’s helped equip her for a life of service, how St John’s Crisis Centre and St Peter’s, Southport are working together to support mothers and children, and what person of faith inspires her the most and why

Year 10 St Margaret’s student Meg Nucifora at the Palm Sunday station within the school’s Lenten and Easter themed Prayer Space on 23 February 2022
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Prayer Spaces: a Lenten and Easter journey

At St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, Prayer Spaces are held each term for both the primary and secondary students to explore life’s big questions, spirituality and faith in a safe, creative and interactive way. The most recent of the school’s Prayer Spaces was themed around the Lenten and Easter seasons

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St Margaret's STEM students give the gift of light

Through the Australian charity SolarBuddy, St Margaret’s primary STEM students have given the gift of solar-powered lights that will help improve the lives of over 2000 children living in energy poverty in majority world (developing) countries so that they can read and study after dusk and brighten their future

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Classics in the Cathedral

St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School recently hosted its annual Classics in the Cathedral – an opportunity for the wider school community to come together in an intimate atmosphere to experience a vibrant and exciting evening of music performances

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Space to reflect and pray

St Margaret’s holds four week-long Prayer Spaces each year: two designed for primary students and two for secondary students. The most recent, held last month, was themed around the Beatitudes, found in Matthew 5.1-12