Welcome to the 2025 summer edition of the Ravenswood Alumni Newsletter.

As we step into the New Year, we extend our heartfelt thanks for your continued support and would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family all the best for 2025. Thank you for being part of the Ravenswood Community.

If you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact the Ravenswood Community Engagement team at alumni@ravenswood.nsw.edu.au

2025 OPEN DAY
On Friday 28 March, discover how Ravenswood can ignite your daughter’s potential by exploring our world-class facilities, hearing from our award-winning Principal, participating in campus-led tours and hands-on wellbeing and STEM activities.

When you continue a family tradition by enrolling your daughters or granddaughters at Ravenswood, as an Alumni, the Enrolment Application Fee is waived. Alumni daughters can also apply for the annual Alumni Scholarship , a part-scholarship for a new or continuing student entering Year 11 as the daughter, granddaughter or great-granddaughter of Alumni. Contact the enrolments team at Open Day or enrol@ravenswood.nsw.edu.au

Register your interest in Open Day below:

ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE AND MORNING TEA
On Tuesday 6 May, we welcome Alumni to Ravenswood who serve or have served our country for an Anzac Day Commemorative Service and Morning Tea. The guest speaker will be Alumni Rear Admiral Katherine Richards (1988), now retired after serving 36 years in the Royal Australian Navy. She previously held the role of Head of Nuclear Powered Submarine Regulatory Design.

If you or a member of your family would like to attend the event, please email alumni@ravenswood.nsw.edu.au

ALUMNI GENERATIONS BREAKFAST
On Thursday 15 May, we gather for breakfast and celebrate Alumni who have a daughter, niece or grand-daughter currently at the school. Invitations will be sent closer to the event.

90 YEARS OF BOARDING
Coming in May, our Boarding community will celebrate 90 years of Boarding at Ravenswood. We'll soon be sending our Alumni boarders details of a special event at Ravenswood.

Invites to come!

RAVENSWOOD ALUMNI CAREERS EVENING
On Tuesday 10 June, we invite Alumni to share life and career lessons with Senior students as they study towards their HSC or IB and make some big decisions about next steps after Ravenswood. If you are interested in volunteering as a mentor at this event, please email alumni@ravenswood.nsw.edu.au

2025 RAVENSWOOD AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S ART PRIZE

Entries for the 2025 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize are open!

The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is the highest valued Art Prize for women in Australia and in 2025 will award artists with $58,000 in prize money across three categories – Professional, Indigenous Emerging and Emerging. There is also Highly Commended awards as well as a People’s Choice award.

So if you are an artist or know a woman artist who would like to enter, please register and enter here . Entries close on 5 March 2025.

On Friday 20 June, attend the popular Opening Night of the 2025 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize as we announce the winners of this year's competition. To be informed when tickets to Opening Night go on sale, fill in your details here .

The Exhibition of Finalists is free to attend, and open Thursdays to Sundays, 10am to 4pm from Saturday 21 June to Sunday 6 July.

We wish to acknowledge the members of our Alumni community who are involved in this prestigious Art Prize:

Jade Oakley (1993) – Patron and Judge
Jennifer Turpin (1975) – Judge
Kathryn Hendy-Ekers (1984) – Judge
Katrina Collins (1975) – Guest Judge

To learn more about the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, please visit ravenswoodartprize.com.au/about

2025 GOLDEN GIRLS' LUNCHEON
On Thursday 16 October 2025 , Ravenswood School for Girls will host its annual Golden Girls' Luncheon on campus. Invitations will be sent later in the year.

Don't miss the opportunity to celebrate milestones, relive the memories and reconnect with your fellow graduates at our remarkable Alumni reunions organised by year groups.

If you would like to organise your Year Group’s reunion, please email the Ravenswood Community Engagement and Events team at alumni@ravenswood.nsw.edu.au .

To see if ticket sales have opened for your reunion, please visit our Reunion dates page .

Alumni Reunions 2025

It’s never too early to start thinking about your reunion.  Coming up in 2025:

The Class of 2023 Recent Leavers Reunion on 6 February was an outstanding success with more than 70 leavers from the Class of 2023 attending the event. The cohort was delighted to see a number of Year 12 staff and the Senior Leadership Team at the event. The evening included a presentation by Ravenswood Principal Dr Anne Johnstone and Alumni Committee President Lisa Boyce (Clancy, 1990). The 2023 School Vice Captain Clare Goben attended the event. The Class of 2023 enjoyed re-connecting with each other and exploring the range of campus developments that have taken place since they graduated.

On Wednesday 13 November 2024, Ravenswood hosted its annual Golden Girls' Luncheon, welcoming back to campus Alumni who left the School 50 years or more ago.

The Luncheon welcomed the newest Golden Girls into the fold - the Class of 1974. See below for a collection of photos from the special occasion.

In February 2025, Ravenswood School for Girls Principal Anne Johnstone was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

Her doctoral thesis was titled, 'Wellbeing, prosocial positive psychological interventions, and developing an other person mindset', and was lauded by her reviewers as being a pioneering study in the field of education. To learn more, please click here .

The School congratulates Dr Anne Johnstone on her outstanding achievement!

It has been announced that at the end of Term 2 2025, Ravenswood will farewell Principal Dr Anne Johnstone after a decade of outstanding leadership and service.

To read the letter sent to parents and staff at the end of 2024 announcing Principal Johnstone concluding her tenure from the Chair of Ravenswood Council, click here .

The summer edition of Semper (#66) has been mailed to our community. The issue showcases extraordinary student and Alumni stories and achievements while highlighting recent community news and reunions.

If you live overseas or didn’t receive a copy of the previous issue, you can view the digital version of Summer 2024 Semper here .

Do you live in Australia and wish to receive Semper ? Have you moved house? You can update your contact details here.

In 1901, visionary educator Mabel Fidler founded Ravenswood School for Girls with eight students, and a vision to educate and empower young women. Now 124 years later, Ravenswood’s coffee table history book Kindle the Flame: Over 120 Years of igniting potential and inspiring passion and purpose by Sophie Church, celebrates our School, which is loved by generations of women and their families. The 256-page book recounts the milestones of the School by Principal eras with a colourful array of archival photos and ephemera that brings the history of Ravenswood to life. Available for $49.95.

We wish to congratulate Rachel Fife (Newton, 1997) – Ravenswood Alumni Committee member and Ravenswood Parent Association member – who has been appointed the Deputy State Commissioner for Girl Guides for NSW, ACT and NT.

Paris Lay-Yee (2022, School Vice Captain) was one of five recent recipients of Australia Association Foundation Scholarships announced by the Governor-General, Her Excellency, the Hon. Sam Mostyn AC following a Round Table Conference at Admiralty House.

Camilla Hayman (2012) was recently nominated for an Emmy Award, one of the highest acknowledgments for artistic and technical merit in the television industry.

Congratulations to Ravenswood Alumni celebrating recent nuptials. To read about these special occasions, please see the Summer Edition of Semper (#66) here .

We love to celebrate special milestones of Alumni and include these celebrations in Semper and the Alumni Newsletter. Whether you have had an important professional or personal achievement, are recently married or had a baby please feel free to send details to alumni@ravenswood.nsw.edu.au . We look forward to hearing from you!

We would like to extend our thanks to the many Alumni who generously offered their expertise, time, workplaces and resources in 2024.

As we look ahead to 2025, we are excited to invite Alumni to participate in a variety of Career Events where you can share your experience and expertise with our Senior School students.

We are seeking experienced Debating Coaches to join our co-curricular team on a casual basis. Our Debating Coaches work at a variety of levels, providing instruction in the development of a range of debating speaking skills to individuals, small groups, or large groups of students ranging in ages.

We are seeking a Mathematics Teacher to join our dedicated team in a temporary part-time capacity (0.625 FTE), commencing as soon as possible, with the role expected to conclude at the end of Term 1.