Last week, we were privileged to have Gunai woman and award winning First Nations activist, Kirli Saunders OAM visited Siena College, as part of the Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival. An engaging speaker, celebrated author, and multidisciplinary artist and educator, Kirli encouraged our Year 10 English students to explore the Australian First Nations Justice issue and to participate in...

Our Year 10 Italian students recently embarked on a Language Immersion Experience in the city, visiting various places such as the Museo Italiano, as well as the Piazza Italia and Coffee Machine Technologies on Lygon Street. Students had the opportunity to learn about how Italian migrants have influenced the Australian society, as well as how Italian cuisine, coffee, street art and sport apparel h...

21 March marks World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), a day observed by the United Nations to raise awareness of Down Syndrome globally. As part of this initiative, Siena College staff and students wore brightly coloured socks to commemorate WDSD. Did you know that people with Down Syndrome have three copies of their Chromosome 21? Socks were also chosen because the karyotype of DS chromosomes actually l...

Our current VCE Drama students attended the 2023 Top Class Drama held at the Malthouse Theatre, in support of new Siena alumna, Jessica D (Class of 2022) who performed her 2022 Unit 4 Solo Performance Examination. Jessica's original work is based on the real life character of Hetty Green, a woman who lived during the Gilded Age in New York, during the late 1800s. Hetty was an entrepreneur and b...

Recently we held our first Siena Parents' Association (SPA) Alumni dinner with eighteen people in attendance. It was a brilliant night catching up with familiar faces, as well as hearing from past secretaries and presidents who shared their wisdom with the current SPA committee. We thank all our volunteers for their ongoing involvement in the College community and for their unwavering support to...

Congratulations to the following winners of the Siena Parents' Association annual raffle! You will be contacted shortly to arrange for the delivery of prizes. Special thanks to all who purchased a raffle ticket. For those who have missed out this time, look out for the next raffle taking place later this year!