Last Saturday, our Earth gently rounded the narrow bend of her elliptical orbit and began the second half of her annual journey around the Sun. As she now moves along that open track, she will straighten up on her axis, gradually turn our southern hemisphere face to the light and for the next six months our daylight hours will become longer.

SMC debaters selected for Canterbury Development Squad and our Middle School Choir joins other independent schools for the inaugural Encore Choral Festival, while excitement grows for Grimm Tales.

The scene is set and rehearsals are in full swing for this year's Senior Production of Grimm Tales.

We had a fabulous day last Friday for International Day. The colour, excitement and passion that the students brought to this day was amazing.

The annual Canterbury Primary Schools’ Cross Country was held at Halswell Quarry on Wednesday 19 June. Four SMC girls ran extremely well and were placed.

This week's businesses are Yealand Estate Ltd, Upright Scaffolding, Bell Lamb Trotter, The Vines Village, Telfer Young, and RPC - full details on the offers they have available to the SMC community are here...

Lockdown procedures are determined by Police advice and require the cooperation of students, staff and parents. We ask all parents to please follow the protocol outlined below to ensure the safety of everyone involved.

St Margaret's College Foundation proudly presents its major fundraising event for the year, the Winter Ball.

We are delighted to bring one of Australia’s best known and respected youth psychologists, Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, to St Margaret’s at the beginning of next term.

Our cafe works to deliver healthy and delicious food for our girls. Here's what's on next week's menu.

As we wind down for the July holidays it has given us a chance to look back on this term. The PFA has worked closely with the school on a number of initiatives and at our last meeting, we donated $12,000 to the school to support some extra opportunities that have arisen since the start of the school year.

From the 5th to 9th of June this year, both Sujean and I competed at the 2019 Future Problem Solving World Finals, in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Here's a quick and easy way to see what school, PFA, Foundation and Old Girls events are coming up in Terms 3 and 4, 2019.

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All donations are being gratefully accepted for the City Mission Foodbank as supplies are running low.