Brescia House School makes a point to take the necessary steps to allow our voices as pupils and growing individuals in society to be heard through different programmes and committees. We strive to create a space of comfort for our pupils to ensure that they are excited to enter the school gates every day. In our endeavor for this comfort we have created meaningful connections with various grades throughout the school to ensure that we are all a family and everybody feels that they have someone in their corner. It is through this sisterhood that we as Head Girls are able to help our younger sisters realise their full potential and understand that they are capable of more than they believe. We strive to create relationships based on love and charity in order to help every single individual feel as though they are not walking their school journey alone, but with an entire family surrounding and supporting them, not just within our school, but also externally through our Ursuline sisters.

To us, Brescia House School has always been a place of growth, comfort and self-expression. It is a community in which we celebrate each other’s victories, and comfort those who have suffered losses. This connection reaches beyond age, race or culture and forms the sisterhood that we pride ourselves in as a school.

The spirit that makes this school come alive is within every person here, so our goal this year is to reignite students’ passion for their school. The lifeblood of our school is sisterhood and Serviam. We build bonds by serving each other in little everyday acts like greeting people by name or helping newer students find their class. We endeavour to bring every person into the inner circle and ensure that no one feels like an outsider. Walking through the halls, you can feel the unique bonds between students and the community that breaks the barriers of age.

Our school ethos is founded on serving, loving and uplifting those around us and these values are deeply rooted in everything we do. As Head Girls for 2023, our vision for the year is to strengthen the loving connections that our ethos centres around. We wish to encourage everyone to find their safe space through involvement in our school’s vast array of sports, culturals, clubs and activities, because these are the connections that will surround you with love everyday throughout your school career and beyond.

Our message for our younger Brescia sisters, is to not only come into school for the academics, but to take advantage of the various extra-curriculars, so that we are able to grow into the wholistic individual that the Brescia House School curriculum enables us to.

Get involved, and get out there because that is where you start to find your family and that is ultimately when your school experience begins.

Kate Tonkin (Deputy Head Girl), Corali Reed (Head Girl) and Nkumbu Musonda (Deputy Head Girl)