Forty years and into the future – 1995 onwards

The college celebrated its anniversary in fine style in 1995. Events included a birthday party, Past Students’ Association dinner and an Open Day reunion. A stained glass window was installed in the library and new rose trees were planted in Nina Carr’s garden.

Financing areas of strength in the college

The College continued to develop its strength in Performing Arts and Sports. College Productions and Musical evenings increased as specialist music staff and instrumental teachers formed part of the teaching staff. Sports of all types became increasingly popular with the students and their endeavours in these areas have been recognised at a State level.

As a response to these interests the College developed a "Master Building Plan". The first structure planned was a new gymnasium, to be followed by the refurbishment of the old hall, to become the Nina Carr Performing Arts Centre, containing lecture theatre, drama rooms and music rooms. Past Principal Ms Lesley Boston, raised one million dollars, set up a Building Co-operative and gained $200,000 from the Administrators of the City of Kingston.

More recent funding has been raised by current Principal Deborah Lehner, who has overseen the finalisation of the Master Plan, which has completed the Gymnasium and stage 1 – the Nina Carr Performance Centre, Science, Visual Arts, Technology centres and toilets.

Changes in society and curriculum

During these years, changes in society and curriculum presented the college with new challenges. The college responded by focussing on teaching the girls leadership skills, cross curricula integration of subjects through special projects like the Year 9 City Camp and the Year 7 Cleopatra's Bazaar, and semester long course electives. To support these activities and promote the sciences, the college redeveloped the Science Wing.

The college recognised the issues of students transitioning from primary to secondary school and introduced the "Significant Teacher Program". In this program, students were taught several subjects by the same teacher. The program has met with success and is being modified for implementation with students in Year 8 and Year 9.

The College has continued its wider involvement in the community through its contribution to the Cerberus Cluster. Here primary and secondary teachers work on projects of mutual interest and develop these for their schools. The Presentation Night moved from the Nina Carr hall to Moorabin Town Hall, and then to the Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University.

Uniform changed to include slacks for the winter uniform as an option to the skirt. The development of student leadership positions saw the introduction of the KLA Captains along with captains for many co-curricula programs. School Captains and the SCR Executive run the College Assembly. Students also run each of the SubSshool assemblies.