Sacré Cœur

Tour Mornings = 4 March and 18 March 9:15 – 11am

Sacré Cœur

Join us from 9:15am at 172 Burke Rd, Glen Iris for our tour morning. Meet our Principal, students, teachers and experience the Sacré Coeur way. Register today at sac.vic.edu.au Courage X kindness = the Sacre Coeur way

PRIN CIPAL \ ANNA MASTERS

172 Burke Road, Glen Iris VIC 3146

Sacré Cœur is an Independent Catholic school where young women are inspired and challenged to shape the world.

The transformation of heads, hearts and hands lies at the heart of a Sacré Cœur education. Our holistic approach to educating young women unites academic endeavour with a deep sense of care for each child and strength of community to create the truest expression of the Sacré Cœur way.

Laughter, inclusivity, deep friendships and the diversity of opportunity are evidenced in the girls’ education. Our young women are encouraged to raise their voices and to look outwardly, applying their wisdom and skill. Students at Sacré Cœur feel a palpable sense of belonging and connection to their lived experience and benefit from a rich diversity of faiths within our community.

Our students benefit from our highly qualified and passionate teachers, many of whom are curriculum experts and VCE assessors. Our teachers embrace each child as an individual, meeting their learning and wellbeing needs from Prep to Year 12. As a result our young women flourish and achieve exceptional VCE results.

We are privileged to belong to an international Sacred Heart family of over 150 schools across 41 countries. Our international family deepens our sense of community as we learn together through exchanges and shared social justice initiatives.

ENQUIRIES +61 3 9835 2700 sac.vic.edu.au admissions@sac.vic.edu.au

YEARS Prep – year 12

DENOMINATION Catholic

GENDER Girls only

FEES $4,712 – $26,974

BOARDING \ No SCHOLARSHIPS \ Yes

ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL Anna Masters is an exceptional educational leader, quickly earning the respect of students, teachers and parents when she joined Sacré Cœur in 2018. Anna has a deep passion for student wellbeing and inspiring quality learning and teaching.

JUNIOR SCHOOL

Children are naturally enthusiastic and curious. The learning experiences we deliver build upon their inquisitiveness in a stimulating and caring environment. Our new fee schedule makes it more accessible than ever before.

YEAR 9 PROGRAM CREATIVITY NEW STEAM FACILITY

Called Notre Monde, the program focuses on fostering growth in resilience, communication, teamwork, creativity, leadership and problem solving. Mindfulness, community service and physical challenge also form an integral part. Creativity is a cornerstone of a Sacré Cœur education. From the creative and performing arts to design thinking in STEM, we nurture creative thinking so that our young women can see and solve the challenges of today and the future. From 2021 we will enjoy exciting new learning spaces in our new science, technology, arts, mathematics and resource building. Spread over four levels the students will benefit from inspiring learning spaces, including a rooftop garden.

THE LEGACY ISSUE

A former student reflects on her time at Melbourne Girls Grammar.

BY PETER HANLON

HINDSIGHT: CAMILLA BACHET

When she’s in Melbourne, Camilla Bachet often finds herself drawn back to her old school. One minute she’ll be walking the Tan Track, the next she’s sneaking through the Melbourne Girls Grammar gates to see how the latest renovations are coming along.

Almost two decades have passed since she graduated, but it’s always nice to be back in a place that holds so many cherished memories.

“I loved my time there,” she says. “All of my best friends now are still my old school friends. It was a fantastic learning environment – I found it was very inclusive, all the teachers were very supportive.”

Bachet knows the professional path she took – engineering – is uncommon for a young woman. “We’re still struggling to get female engineers at work.” But in her time at the Merton Hall campus, she remembers only support and encouragement for all students to pursue subjects that interested and inspired them.

A school trip to Papua New Guinea in year 11 planted the seed for the other enduring arm of her working life – humanitarianism. The visiting students slept in the local school, went trekking and were billeted out to families in villages where they were the only non-natives.

“You saw different challenges in each household, each village, the difficulties that were faced in those environments. It made me think, ‘How can I actually do work that combines travel and helping people?’”

She’s managed to sate those joint

passions exceptionally well. For the past three years, Bachet has worked for GHD on The Connections Project, modernising century-old irrigation systems in the Murray River region to provide farmers with more water for

international, engineering-centred organisation that rebuilds lives in the wake of disaster through training, supporting and providing aid workers. Amid the Rohingya refugee crisis, with water stocks down to five litres per person per day, she designed a new reservoir to help 20,000 desperate people.

their crops and land, and also ensure there’s more feeding the ecosystems downstream.

She’s happy with the outcomes, yet more proud of her work in Nepal and Bangladesh with RedR, an

“I n Australia you work for months and months on a project, you see it get built and that’s great, but you don’t see the impact on the individuals’ day-to-day lives,” she says. “You design something in a refugee camp to be built in the next few weeks; you see that impact immediately.”

She feels fortunate to be described as a humanitarian engineer, having met many aid workers who move only from one emergency to the next. “That’s a tough lifestyle, I’m lucky to be able to do both.”

In March 2019, Bachet’s old school declared her the inaugural recipient of the Emily Hensley Award, named after MGGS’s first principal, to honour alumnae who embody the school’s values through their contribution to society and professional success. It’s hard to imagine a more worthy first name for the honour board.

“I didn’t realise people were that impressed by it – you know when you just do the work and it is what it is. I was really chuffed to have been awarded that. I saw the old principal and vice principal at the awards, it was like nothing had changed. I still have very fond memories of my time there.”

“You design

something in a

refugee camp to

be built in the

next few weeks;

you see that impact

immediately.”

CAMILLA BACHET