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St Margaret’s has developed a new Master Plan to ensure we retain our place among Queensland’s leading schools and give every girl every opportunity for educational and personal growth. While the Master Plan will be implemented over many years, the first major commitment is to the Arts Precinct.
Our students have talent, passion and imagination, and we are setting out to create a facility to match their potential.
With this vision in mind, St Margaret’s Foundation unveils "The world is her stage" Capital Campaign to support the realisation of this new Arts Precinct, that will become the heart of music, drama and performance on our campus.
The precinct will provide new spaces that will meet both the curricular and extra-curricular needs of the arts program, including a purpose-built Blackbox Theatre, Recital Hall, dedicated rehearsal spaces, music rooms, and teaching studios, all designed to deliver a world-class learning environment for our primary and secondary students and to support excellence in the performing Arts.
Our students can look forward to increased opportunities to gain exposure to the best talent in the performing arts, access new dedicated spaces for rehearsals and equipment storage, and undertake technical learning in digital animation, production and set design. Because at St Margaret’s, the world is her stage.
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Brad King
Head of Performance
Music is such an incredibly powerful art form that has existed in every community across the globe since the dawn of time. Music allows us to feel deeply, connect with others in a collaborative way and experience something that is uniquely human. Within a school environment, music offers the opportunity for students to experience the joy of expressing themselves through performance in community with others. A dedicated performing arts space where students can both learn and perform will be so pivotal in providing amazing learning and performing opportunities while also nurturing our next generation of performing artists.
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Rowena Bracken
Head of Faculty – Art
Investing in arts education at St Margaret’s is an investment in our students’ futures. It fosters creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration - skills essential for success in any field. Our state-of-the-art facilities will provide a platform for students to explore their passions, from music and drama to visual arts and dance. By attracting world-class educators and offering unique opportunities like workshops with visiting performers, we will empower our students to reach their full potential. The benefits extend beyond the individual, enriching our entire community and inspiring future generations of artists and leaders.
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Annette Box
Assistant Head of Primary School - Wellbeing and Operations
The arts have the capacity to be transformational in a young person’s life; they can shape identity, foster a sense of belonging and undoubtedly have a positive impact on their overall wellbeing. A student who studies the arts is more likely to develop the trademark twenty-first century ‘survival’ skills of creativity, flexibility, and the ability to solve problems, equipping them to make sense of our ever-changing world. The arts bring vitality to a community, and the creation of spaces in which communities can gather to celebrate and share these experiences will only serve to enrich and enhance their impact.
Every contribution will make a meaningful difference.
By donating to "The world is her stage" Capital Campaign, you’re not just supporting a building, you’re investing in her education and future.
A donation to the Arts Precinct is an investment in student potential, enhanced cognitive capacity, and in the social and emotional wellbeing of our young women.
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Online
Make your gift via our online donation form
(please select the Building Fund)
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By post
Please click here to download and print
our donation form to donate by post.
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Over the phone
Please call the Development Office
on +617 3862 0884 to
discuss your giving or donate via phone.
Unless anonymity is requested, all donors will be recognised in the subsequent issue of the St Margaret’s Flyer magazine in the annual list of donors and on "The world is her stage" Capital Campaign webpage, for the duration of the campaign.
A permanent Donor Wall will be erected in the Arts Precinct, where the names of donors who give $2,000 or more over the duration of the campaign (2025 and 2026 calendar years) will be recorded. The colour of the etched names will be aligned with the levels of giving:
• $2,000 - $4,999 = Black
• $5,000 – $9,999 = Navy Blue
• $10,000 - $19,999 = Bronze
• $20,000 - $49,999 = Silver
• $50,000+ = Gold
Acknowledgment Opportunities aligned with supporting particular spaces and facilities within the building are available for discussion on an individual basis. Please call the Development Office on +617 3862 0884 to discuss your donation.
St Margaret's with the Foundation gratefully acknowledges the support of those who have donated in support of "The world is her stage" Capital Campaign through their donation to the Building Fund in 2025 and 2026.
Please note, this list of donors is updated weekly. While much care is taken in updating this list, occasionally there may be an error or omission. To notify us, or if you wish to make a change to your acknowledgement name, please contact the Development Office. Thank you for your support.
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The Adsett Family
The Ager Family
Caroline Aldridge
Michelle Alexander
The Alford Family
Lily Alford
The Allen Family
The Allen Chapman Family
Greg Anderson
Lucy Angelini
Megan Angliss
Tammy Astill
Josephine Atkinson
Lyndy and George Atkinson
The Attewell Family
The Baldwin Family
Shirley Bale
Zoe Band
Rhea and Reg Barber
Kevin Barden
Andrew Barwick
Raffles and Bella Batstone
Helen Bayley
Lee Beanland ('66)
Emma and Matt Beasley
Betty Beath
Bede Students
Sasha and Pippa Beikoff
Sophie and Sam Bell
Diane Bender ('64)
Francesca Berlese
Paul Bertinato
Best Life Agency
Louise Birnzwejg
Libby Black ('68)
The Bliss Family
Patricia Boddington
Eleanor Bolton (Cray)
The Bothwell Family
Annette Box
Erica Boyd
Harriette Boydell
The Braganza Family
The Braitling Family
Andrea Bridge
Kylie Briggs
Maya-Makayla Brooks
Manon Brown
R and K Brown
Vanessa Browning
Trent and Emily Bruce
Rosemary Buchanan
N and M Buckley
Mrs Wendy Buddle
Mark Burgess
A and A Burke
Jaclyn and Michael Burke
Claire Burns
Anthony Burrows
Darrell Butcher
Meredith Butler
Ann-Marie
Michael Buys
The Caffrey Family
Diana Caie
Araminta and Saskia Callianiotis
Ben and Sophie Cameron
Olivia and Claudia Campbell
Joshua Carnavas
Marilyn Carr
The Carrick Family
Jim and Glenda Carson
Ada and Clementine Carson
L and M Carter
Mitch Carter
Shane Cassady
The Cassady Family
Annette Chan
The Chan Family
Tilly Charlton
Alexandra Chater
Chaucer Students
Victoria Chee
Xiaoli Chen
The Chen Family
Eva Cho
Yuna Cho
Michael Choi
Sam and Christina Chopra
Margaret Christiansen
Everil Clark
The Clark Family
Meaghan and Matthew Clarke
Anne Clarke ('63)
Class of 2025
Bette Clay
The Cleary Family
Cathy Cleland
Kim Coghill
K and M Coleborn
Nicki, Sophia and Naomi Colledge
John and Sandra Colley
Rowena Collins
Margaret Colquhoun nee Christensen
Gia, Anika and Paloma Comino
The Connolly Family
The Cooke Family
Robin Cooley
Heidi and James Cooper
The Coote Family
Desiree Coroneo
Vincent Cosgrove
Melinda Costello
The Court Family
Lucinda Coverdale
Lauren and Ally Cowley
Ginger Cox
Jon Cox
Keri Craig-Lee OAM ('75) and Cartier Lee ('15)
Lesa Craven
Heather Crompton
Brendan and Rebecca Cronin
Lucy and Michael Crowe
Kate Curran
Ros Curtis AM
The Dahl Family
Jill Darcy
Elspeth Darvall
Kerry Daud
Robyn Davis
Skye Davis
The Dayman Family
The De Clara Family
Meggy Delaunay
Annie D'Ercole
The Derrington Family
Nicole Devlin
The Dew Family
The Dhawan Family
Cheryl Diehm
C and E
Michael and Chantal Di Sipio
Di Dixon
Amelie Dow
Rev Jazz Dow
Sienna Drake
Angela Drysdale
Chris Dunn
K. Dunn
Susan Lorette Dunn
Marilyn Dunning
Durack College
The Durbidge Family
Antoinette Earnshaw
The Economopoulos Family
Jenny Edmunds
Emilia Esera
The Evans Family
The Everson Family
The Faraone Family
Linda Feng
Mei Feng
Jim and Robyn Ferguson ('60)
Margot ('56) and Ron Finney
The Finnila Family
The Finselbach Family
The Fischer Family
B and C Fitzgerald
Julianne Foot
Lizzie Fowler
The Franke Family
Scarlett, Victoria and Adelaide Franklin
Laurel Fraser
Kate Frewin
The Fullerton Family
Debbie Gadsby
Brad Ganim
Joe Ganim
Emma Gard
The Gard Family
Isabel Gardiner
Skye Gatenby
Ben George
Kristy Giorgas
Tannas D Godfrey
Jodie Goodwin
Angela Grant
Anne Green ('61) and Jane Maclean ('62) in memory of Marjorie Johnstone ('29) nee Mant
Joananne Greensill
Annabelle Grieve
Jordan Groeneveld
Oscar Groeneveld
The de Groot Family
The Groth Family
Celine Guan
Emma Gubb
Elizabeth Gutteridge
The Hagenbach Family
Keith and Janeen Hamburger
Helen Hamilton
Sakura Hansen
Zahra Harcourt
Rose Haririan
Amber Harris-Kelly
Emma Harrison
The Hartmann Family
Suzannah Harvey
Kate Hedges
The Heffernan Family
The Heick Family
The Helton Family
Deb Hempel
Allegra Henderson
Sandra Herman
The Herrald Family
Herrick Students
The Hicks Family
Jillian Holland
The Hopper Family
Joan Horgan
Valerie Horgan
Gayle Horn
Penelope House
The Houston Family
Simon and Melanie Hughes
Janet Howard Smith
Margaret Hunt
The Hutchins Family
Robbie Huxley
Pauline Irvine
CJ
Amy James
The Jamieson Family
Jungwon Jang
Susan Jarmer
Sonja Jarrett
Jan Jenyns
The Jeraj Family
The Ji Family
Kate Johns
Wendy Johnston ('79)
The Jones Family
The Jones Family
The Jonsson Family
Joe and Erin Joseph
The Joseph Family
Sasha Juan
Brooke and Edie Juniper
The Kardooni Family
The Kataria Family
Sofia and Valentina Katsanevas
Louise Kelly
Kendall Students
The Kidd Family
Lani Killalea
Yina Kim
Joshua Kindred
Greta King
Melanie Kirkhope
Carly Kirkwood
The Klaassen Family
Phoebe Knight
The Knott Family
Amara Kolokas
Nick and Ali Kouparitsas
Stephanie L
Vanessa Lahy
Olivia Lambert ('16)
Tara and Nicholas Lancashire
Robyn Lane and Seb Ward
Katherine Lange
The Law Family
Winnie Law
Lawson Students
Martine Lazic
Hannah Lee
Lydia Lee
Jay Lee
David Leach
The Leggatt Family
Chunmei Li
Hannah Li
Louisa Li
The Lin Family
Kefeng Ling
The Lisle Family
David Little
Eva and Ella Liu
The Liuchen Family
Holly Livingstone
Scott and Katie Lloyd
The Lloyd Family
The Loughrey Family
The Love Family
Margot Love
Anita Lowe
Xanthe Lowe-Brown
The Lowis Family
The Lumbanradja Family
In Honour of Pamela Lusby
The Luus Family
The MacDermott Family
The MacDonald Family
Doune Macdonald
Dorene Elizabeth MacGowan
Jenni MacIvor
The Mackenzie Family
Laura Manly
The Markwell Allan Family
Agnieszka Martin
Valerie Matters nee Mor
The Maunder Family
The Max and Li Family
Jason and Tania McAulay
Amanda and Craig McCabe
Emma McCaughey
The McCaughey Family
Caitlin McCluskey
The McCourt Family
The McDonnell Family
Christina Mc Farlane Loras
The McKenzie Family
The McKinnon Family
Robyn McKinnon nee Hendy
Elizabeth McLean
The McMillan Family
The McWilliam Family
Helen Meredith
Vimbai Mhlanga
Kimberley Middlemis
The Mills Family
Milton Students
Stella, Zara and Ashleigh Minotto (Anderson)
Bev Mitchell
Todd Moesbergen and Taryn Reddy
Georgia Mitchell
Adam Mogg
Janice Moody
Ros Moore
Primrose and Eloise Morahan
The Morales Family
The Morrow Aimandi Family
The Mula Family
Ayda Mulcahy
The Mullin-Browns
The Murray-Rickard Family
Dr Kathyayini Murthy
Leon Murugan
Sarah Mycoe
Jane Nason
The Nearhos Family
Ellie Neuendorf
The Newman Family
Jonny Ng
Lucia Nimah
Marcia Noble
David Nolan
The Noonan Family
Lily Noorli
Susan O'Hare
Mary O’Neill
Anne Olsen
Benjamin Omowaire
Judith Overstead
Shantal Padayachee
Jake Park
The Parolin Family
SA Parry
The Peck Family
The Peckham Family
Susan Pendlebury
Ken Perrett
Annie Phipps
Lara and John Pickering
Cindy Pieterse
The Piggott Family
Derek and Visnja Pocock
The Pople Family
Mark, Samantha and Charlotte Powell
Chris Poynter
Pippa Prior
The Pulitano Family
Clint and Charlotte Purkiss
The Quinell Family
Alison Quinn (‘83)
Lauren Raitt
The Rawlings Family
Lisa Rayner
Nick and Pru Reed
The Reed Family
Patsy Reeve
Matt and Simone Rennie
The Renwick and Shen Family
Janelle Rhodes
The Rice Family
Cara Richardson
Meleia Richardson
Toni Riordan
Jessica Robbie
Kay Roberts
Jess Robey
Debra Robinson
The Robson Family
Isobel Roe ('08) and Megan Roe nee Macdonald (’74)
Renee Roller
Jayne Rome
The Rome Family
Helen Rose
Jodie Ryan
Sue Ryerson
Sue Ryerson
Romain and Louise Saporito
Hardy Saul
Elke Schollay
The Schrodter Family
Andrew Scifleet
The Segal Family
The Selfridge Family
Andrea Severa
Roz Shannon
Maggie Shao
Billie and Maggie Shaw
The Shearer Family
The Sheehan-Birrell Foundation
The Shewan Family
Estelle Hwaryung Shin & Elise Soyeon Shin
The Shrimpton Family
Donna Si
Justin Slaughter
The Slogrove Family
Alena Smith
Ava and Savannah Smith
Scott and Suzie Smith
The Smith Family
Jen Sneesby
Trish Solomon nee Bletchly ('64)
The Sorbello Family
Aria and Siena Sos
Spenser Students
Karen Spiller OAM
Fiona, Isabella and Josephine Spooner
Rosina Spowart
St Margaret's Old Girls' Association
St Margaret's P&F Association
St Margaret's Year 6 Class of 2025
Georgina Stevenson
The Stewart Family
Jennifer Stiller
Jennifer Stinson
Anne Stitz
Claire Stitz
The Stobie Family
Vicki Strid
The Stumer Family
Michael Sutcliffe
Sophie Evans, Alice and David Sutherland
Nicola Swarbrick
The Sweeney Family
The Taft Family
Tanner Family
SarahMegan Tass- Menkens
Sean Tavener
Ben and Kate Taylor
Tennyson Students
Kym Thomas
Jennifer Thomas nee Clarke
Lara Thompson
Sally Thomson
Nikki Townsend
The Traves Family
Norma Tucker
Charmaine and Patrick Twomey
Lorraine Ungerer
Rosie Van Niekerk
Guy and Tracey Vedelago
Thea Vink
Joe Vogelgessong
The Wagner Family
Isabel and Ava Walker
The Walker Family
Helena Wang
Zhaofeng Wang
The Wang and Qu Family
Carlie Ward
Christina Ward
The Wareham Family
Georgia Webb
The Wehl Family
Susie White
Sonia Widderick
Alice Wilkinson
The Wilkinson Family
Chris and Dimity Williams
Toni Williams
The Williamson Family
The Willink Family
Susan Wilson
Wendy Winks
Cr Penny Wolff
The Wooderson Family
The Wright Family
Lisa Worner
Valerie Wright
Crystal Wu
Maggie Wu
Ziqiu Yang
Year 6 - Class of 2024
In memory of Felicity QJ Yu
Alison Zappala
Stella and Sophia Zhang’s Family
Ella Zhang
Sabrina Zheng
"The combination of the incredible performing arts culture that exists within St Margaret’s and a new Arts Precinct will elevate the opportunities for girls to a whole new level. It will inspire students to push artistic and imaginative boundaries within production, practice and performance."
Annabelle Traves ('14)
Concert violinist
"The foundation built at St Margaret’s has not only shaped my career but also reinforced my belief in the power of music to heal, connect, and transform. I am deeply grateful for the role my music education has played in equipping me to make a difference in the lives of children and their families during some of their most challenging moments."
Maggie James (’97)
Music Therapy Clinical Leader, Queensland Children’s Hospital
"The arts, and particularly music, can often feel like a solitary pursuit - many hours spent refining a craft in isolation. It’s only when we perform in front of an audience that we can truly share the fruits of our hard work. The new facility will provide students with a space that not only enhances their learning but also allows them to showcase their talents in an inspiring and supportive environment. I can imagine how empowering it will be for students to feel a sense of accomplishment in such a dynamic setting, while also having the opportunity to share the joy of music with their peers, families, and the wider St Margaret’s community."
Akari Komoto (’21)
Composer and Lyricist, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
"For aspiring musicians, actors and creatives, being able to practice and perform in a state-of-the-art recital hall will set students up for success in studying their craft at university. It will equip them with real-world skills and provide them with the advantage of already knowing how to navigate such a space. The new Arts Precinct will enable St Margaret’s bands and ensembles, to have their own dedicated rehearsal spaces with modern equipment and acoustics, which I believe will take their learning to a new level."
Xanthe Lowe-Brown (’18)
PhD Student, University of Melbourne
"The combination of the incredible performing arts culture that exists within St Margaret’s and a new Arts Precinct will elevate the opportunities for girls to a whole new level. It will inspire students to push artistic and imaginative boundaries within production, practice and performance."
Annabelle Traves ('14)
Concert violinist
"The foundation built at St Margaret’s has not only shaped my career but also reinforced my belief in the power of music to heal, connect, and transform. I am deeply grateful for the role my music education has played in equipping me to make a difference in the lives of children and their families during some of their most challenging moments."
Maggie James (’97)
Music Therapy Clinical Leader, Queensland Children’s Hospital
"The arts, and particularly music, can often feel like a solitary pursuit - many hours spent refining a craft in isolation. It’s only when we perform in front of an audience that we can truly share the fruits of our hard work. The new facility will provide students with a space that not only enhances their learning but also allows them to showcase their talents in an inspiring and supportive environment. I can imagine how empowering it will be for students to feel a sense of accomplishment in such a dynamic setting, while also having the opportunity to share the joy of music with their peers, families, and the wider St Margaret’s community."
Akari Komoto (’21)
Composer and Lyricist, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
"For aspiring musicians, actors and creatives, being able to practice and perform in a state-of-the-art recital hall will set students up for success in studying their craft at university. It will equip them with real-world skills and provide them with the advantage of already knowing how to navigate such a space. The new Arts Precinct will enable St Margaret’s bands and ensembles, to have their own dedicated rehearsal spaces with modern equipment and acoustics, which I believe will take their learning to a new level."
Xanthe Lowe-Brown (’18)
PhD Student, University of Melbourne
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