Girls on Fire

This week we're joined by a returning guest, MLC Collegian, journalist and documentary filmmaker Zoe Flood. Zoe has worked for the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times and other leading media outlets covering topics from gambling addiction to extremism in sub-Saharan Africa. MLC media students Hannah, Emily and Lucy sat down with her to discuss what inspired her to pursue journalism and her advice for aspiring journalists.

The Years 7-11 Dance Showcase is coming up on the 29th of June. To celebrate, we spoke with Emma, Scarlett and April about their creative process for choreographing their dances, as well as what attendees to the performance can expect.

This week we're continuing the trend of celebrating our collegians with a flashback episode. Two of our students caught up with collegian and author Suzanne Harrison to discuss her 2021 book, The Colour of Thunder. As aspiring authors themselves, they ask about her writing process, where she draws inspiration, and what it takes to become a published author.

As part of our MLC All-Stars series, we welcomed collegian Christine Bamford to discuss her being awarded the UWA Winthrop Scholarship. Christine talks about how the scholars were chosen, what the scholarship means to her, and her tips for anyone pursuing a similar goal.

This week, MLC Student Leaders Jade (Year 12) and Izzie (Year 6) interview collegian Maya Farah about her experience taking part in the Menzies Emerging Leaders Program. They discuss what she has learned, what it takes to be a great leader, and how they hope to use their leadership skills to shape the future.

Year 8 student Saieshaa and her mum Dr Hemah Sakara are heading to Fiji to help with the opening of the first Children's Heart Hospital. MLC Chaplain Simone Smalley catches up with them to find out more about their important work, and what the MLC Community can do to support them.

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams.This week our Head of Student Leadership Mr Guggisberg speaks with Leadership Prefect Stella and her executive Gian. They discuss the new and exciting changes to the Walton Leadership Institute and the many ways leadership skills are vital in everyday life.

This week we flash back to one of our first episodes. Collegian (then Year 12 media student) Grace speaks with journalist and documentary filmmaker Zoe Flood. They discuss Zoe's best memories at MLC, her career highlights and what it takes to work in journalism. After studying History and Politics at Oxford University, Zoe went on to work and live in Nairobi for the past 10 years, reporting on conflict and post-conflict situations for international media outlets.

To celebrate languages week, we spoke with our Academic Prefect Karmanya and Academic Executives Sian and Sreya. They discuss the activities they planned for the week, their experience with languages and the importance of learning about other cultures.

This week we spoke with MLC's new Director of Music Dr Andrew Sutherland. We speak about Andrew's journey, his literary career and the importance of a good musical education.

This week we find out all about the MLC boarding house. Boarders Jennilee, Edwina and Grace sit down with Olympian and new Assistant Director of Boarding Edwina Bone to ask about her journey, her life advice and the cardboard beds at the Tokyo Olympics.

This week we discuss the Prefects' and Principal's theme for 2022. Head and Deputy Head Prefects Annie and Olivia sit down with Deputy Principal Rosemarie Dunn to discuss what the themes mean to each other, and how they plan to demonstrate them throughout the year.

This episode the Year 7s dive into a huge week of activities. We speak with students as they hit the beach, the river and the dance floor for Orientation Week.

To start the new school year on a thoughtful, reflective note we caught up with MLC Chaplain Simone Smalley. We discuss her advice for keeping above the chaos and focusing on what really matters.

To close off another incredible year, Year 6 students Clarise, Zara and Anya sit down with MLC Principal Dr Marie Perry to discuss her greatest highlights and challenges for 2021.

Flourishing Futures is a week-long program that gives Year 10s the opportunity to experience a workplace, as well as learning new skills through micro-credential courses. This week we caught up with MLC Director of Innovation Meagan King to discuss the program, as well as a few of the students taking part.

Wellbeing is always at the forefront of the college experience MLC provides. This week, Senior Years Deputy Principal Rosemarie Dunn sits down with Senior College Psychologist Tania Henry and Health Coordinator Helen Gillausseyn to discuss MLC's wellbeing approach.

'Created' is a walking exhibition that showcases artwork from Pre-Primary to Year 12, while offering a unique chance to explore the College's learning spaces. To find out what to expect from the exhibition, we caught up with Stuart Earnshaw, Head of Creative Arts, Design And Technologies, as well as some of the award winning artists whose work will be on display.

The Heather Lamont Festival is MLC's all-day arts festival, celebrating music, dance, theatre and creative expression in all forms. This week we learn a little bit about who Heather Lamont was, and how her legacy is being celebrated today.

Children learn at an astonishing rate at a young age, which is what makes setting an exceptional foundation for learning so important. We caught up with Kylie Cross, Deputy Principal for Junior Years, to discuss the importance of good pre-primary education.

The upcoming October Concert marks the final performance for Dr Robert Faulkner, our Director of Music. To celebrate an incredible career, returning collegians Olivia and Oriana sat down to discuss Dr Faulkner's time at MLC, his insights, challenges, and what we can expect from the upcoming performance.

On September 28 we hosted the inaugural Innovation in Education Festival, bringing together educators and industry leaders to discuss the future of education. This week we're joined by Meagan King, Director of Innovation at MLC, to discuss the event and her key takeaways.

Receiving a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award is a huge achievement that recognises accomplishments in voluntary service, physical recreation, adventurous journeys, leadership and discovering new skills. We caught up with four of our Gold Award Recipients; Chloe, Christine, Phoebe and Sophie, to hear about their experiences.

We catch up with Deb Barraclough, Director of Boarding, to discuss her background, her hopes for MLC borders, and the importance of family.

Concerto Night is a long-standing rite of passage for our senior musicians at MLC. We sat down with Maya, Saffron and Michaela to talk about how their music journey started and the lead-up to the big night.

Across Western Australia there are some outstanding innovative educators leading the way in the education sector. In this podcast, we are joined by three young professionals as they share their knowledge and experience in working to inspire and empower our next generation.

With an increase in technology use, industry partnerships and global opportunities, our schools are working hard to ensure we're preparing our students for an unknown future of work. In this week's podcast, we are joined by MLC Principal, Dr Marie Perry, Scotch College Principal, Alec O'Connell and St Stephens Principal, Donella Beare, to discuss their insights into the future of education.

Our Year 10 students had the amazing opportunity to take part in the Career Innovators Programme in partnership with Bop Industries. The students built on their creative and critical thinking skills through working on solutions for industry aligned challenges, as well as hearing from some outstanding guest speakers. Listen in to this week's podcast to hear some of the Year 10 students chat with the CEO of Bop Industries Scott Millar.

Our staff are committed to caring for each student both emotionally and academically. Listen to this week's podcast to hear from our Pre-Primary teacher Kate, specialist Art teacher Joanna and specialist Music teacher Helen as they discuss the advantages of getting your child's foundations right.

The goal for all of our dedicated sportswomen is to reach the IGSSA 25 Club by participating in 25 IGSSA teams during their time at MLC. As we celebrate Sports Week, some of our 25 Club members share how sport at MLC has helped them to build resilience, confidence, persistence, teamwork skills and a love of competition. Listen in to this week's podcast to hear their insights.

The Year 10 Food Specialisations class have been working in partnership with OzHarvest food charity organisation to prepare 120 nutritious meals. Each week a student is selected as project manager and leads the class through every step of the meal preparation. Listen in to this week's podcast to hear some of the students reflect on the project.

As part of our Diamonds High Tea last week we welcomed our Collegians from the 1940-60s to recall their fond school memories. They were eager to spill the beans on the mischief they got up to in the boarding house and what school was like in their day, tune into this week's podcast to hear all!

The 2020 Circle of Success empowered a group of Year 8 students to re-purpose and reignite our languages classrooms. In this week's podcast we catch up with some of the students who designed the amazing spaces to hear their reflections about the incredible opportunity to work on the project and what it's like to learn in the revitalised Languages Hub.

We were very lucky to be joined by special guest MLC Collegian and Founder of She Codes Kate Kirwin in this week's podcast. Listen in to hear her advice for young people wanting to enter the tech industry as well as her experiences running a successful business.

A group of Year 11 MLC and Christ Church Grammar School (CCGS) students travelled to Nullagine last week for the opportunity to experience and gain a greater understanding of remote communities through hands on learning in the local school. Listen to this week's podcast to hear daily insights from the students and staff.

With only one day to go to the first regatta of 2021, we put the spotlight on our new Head Rowing Coach and Collegian Bree Kennedy-Smith (2014). In this week's podcast students Alyssa and Madison have a chat with Bree about her passion for rowing, from being a part of the winning First VIII crew in 2014 to now leading a team of ambitious young rowers.

House automation, coding and app development; all in a day's work for our Year 10 Digital Technologies students. In class, students have been developing real world skills that give them the experience needed to be successful in innovative careers. Listen to this week's podcast to hear two of our students discuss what they have been learning and their career aspirations for the future.

From watching fireworks over the river to discovering a love of learning in class, our new MLC boarders have had the time of their lives in Term 1 at MLC. Listen in to this week's podcast to hear from some of our new boarders about their experiences so far.

Two of our passionate Year 11 story writers were excited to sit down and quiz published author and MLC Collegian Suzanne Harrison (1986) on her tricks to being a successful novelist. Listen to this week's podcast to hear Suzanne shed light on life as a writer, from the struggles and set backs to the joy of seeing your work finally published.

Since 1976, Collegian Jodi Newton (1980) has held the Year 8 50-metre Breaststroke record at MLC, but this changed when talented athlete and Year 8 MLC student Lucy came along and broke the record. Listen to this week's podcast to hear Jodi chat about her experience as an athlete with Year 8 students Lucy and Jemima.

Five years ago, MLC Chaplain Rev. Hollis Wilson asked then Year 11 student Jussea to create an animation for the Easter Chapel Service. The result was superb and, not surprisingly, Jussea has continued to pursue her talent through studying a Games Art and Design degree at university. Listen to this week's podcast to hear Jussea chat to Hollis about her experience studying and working in a creative industry.

Year 12 student Caity wanted to share her experience and advice on alternative learning pathways and Girls on Fire the Podcast gave her the platform for this message. Listen to this week's podcast to hear Caity and MLC teacher Nicola Rose, Coordinator of Inclusive Learning 7 – 12 and Vocational Education and Training (VET) chat about alternative pathways at MLC.

Our Year 10 Art students were lucky enough to spend the day with Artist Andy Quilty. Listen to this week's episode to gain an insight into where Andy draws inspiration from and his take on the importance of art history.

Jazz was not so much of a choice for Lucy but rather a calling. When she was first awarded a music prize at MLC, she never imagined that in 2021 she would be a professional musician. Listen to this week's podcast to hear Year 12 student Stella chat to her vocal tutor and Collegian Lucy Iffla about their passion for Jazz.

Our Junior Years Students were eager to ask our new Deputy Principal ELC to Year 6 all of life's biggest questions. In this week's podcast join them in getting to know Kylie Cross, where they chat about everything from Kylie's devotion to Surf Life Saving, her pet bunny Snowball and the her vision for the MLC Junior Years.

The MLC community is unified under two guiding themes each year, one being the prefects' theme and the other is the principal's theme. Listen in to this week's podcast to hear Principal Dr Perry and Head and Deputy Head Prefects Jemeeka and Ruby announce the themes.

MLC Collegians Evelyn and Shannon have a chat to our 2021 Academic Prefect Maya about their recent results in the WACE exams. They both received a perfect score of 99.95, placing them as two of the top 14 students in the state. For this pair of exceptional students, life throughout school was more than just study, they spoke about the importance of spending time with friends and family and really enjoying everything that MLC had to offer.

Take a look back at the year of 2020 with Principal Dr Marie Perry and Head and Deputy Head Prefect Elect Jemeeka and Ruby. Dr Perry shares her best and most challenging moments of 2020, from working on the transition to online learning, reimagining MLC events and dealing with being away from her own family and friends. Listen in to the final episode of Girls on Fire 2020 to hear Dr Perry reflect on how she has taken a leap this year.

What defines a successful leader? Listen to this week's podcast to hear two of our Year 11 students discuss this question and more with Nevin, a Graduate Mechanical Engineer at Woodside. He shares valuable advice with the students giving an insight into his journey from high school to now living in Karratha.

Our MLC Early Learning Centre (ELC) Director Rika Whelan and MLC staff member and ELC parent Jessica Addy chat about the wonderful community that has flourished in the ELC. The legacy that was established in 2018 has only grown stronger as more MLC staff members enrol their babies at the ELC.With access to purposeful opportunities across the College and a curriculum that fosters the learning and development in each child, our ELC creates an environment for children from six months of age to thrive. Listen in to this week's episode to hear more about our unique approach.

MLC Collegian Alicia Janz (2007) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for West Coast in the AFL Women's competition. She also played netball for both the West Coast Fever and Western Sting. Beyond sports, Alicia is a member of the AFL players' association Indigenous Advisory Board and a Team Coordinator for Deadly Sista Girlz, which is part of the Wirrpanda Foundation.In this week's podcast, students from our MLC IGSSA AFL team had the opportunity to chat with Alicia about her experience as a professional athlete and ask her advice for young women playing football.