12 February 1924
Original House Named
1928
Basketball match at Strathcona
1932
Strathcona Sports Day at Glenferrie Oval
1941 - 1942
Miss Bessie Sweetland, Headmistress
1943 - 1953
Miss Dora Bulie Featherstone, Headmistress
1943
The Baptist Union purchased the School
1948
School Hymn created
Prefect Val Hutchinson wrote the School Hymn and composed the original music.
1949
Spicer Block
1950
Mellor House
1954 - 1956
Miss Helen Menzies Smith, Headmistress
1969
Australia’s first separate Year 9 girls’ campus
Tay Creggan was purchased and Australia’s first separate Year 9 campus was established. The first cohort of Year 9 girls were welcomed onto the campus in 1970.
1973 - 1989
Mr Ken Lyall OAM, Principal
1974
First pupils visit
Mr Lyall with Strathcona’s first two pupils, Mrs Una Cromie and Mrs Jean Lovegrove (Austin).
1975
A Royal Visit
Princess Margaret visited Tay Creggan on her Royal Tour.
1990 - 2000
Mrs Ruth Bunyan AM , Principal
1994
New Humanities and Administration Block Opened
On the 5 March the new Humanities and Administration block was opened containing the Lyall Chapel.
1997
Middle School Centre and Science Labs opened
2001 - 2014
Mrs Helen Hughes, Principal
2001
Mont Calm Nursing Home was purchased and converted into the Junior School
2005
Charlotte’s Web filming at Tay Creggan
Scenes from Hollywood’s Charlotte’s Web was filmed in the front rooms of Tay Creggan
2005
Opening of the New Mellor House
2008
Creative Performing Arts Centre Opens
29 August Ms Nehama Patkin OAM opens The Shirley Bourne Gallery in the Creative and Performing Arts Centre (CPAC).
17 March 2011
Opening of the Aquatic and Fitness Centre
2012
Featherstone Hall is refurbished
30 October His Excellency the Hon. Alex Chernov AC QC Governor of Victoria opened the refurbished Featherstone Hall.
2015
Mrs Marise McConaghy Principal
19 June 2015
Contemporary Learning Centre Opens
Opening of the Contemporary Learning Centre by Dr Vanessa Murrie (’90) BSc (Melb), M.S. (Mayo Grad. School), PhD (Cambridge).
2018
Year 9 Envision Program launched
Woven together with Australian National Year 9 Curriculum, the TC Envision Program teaches important entrepreneurial and life ready skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, design capability, intellect, collaboration, communication and resilience.
2018
Students met Nobel Peace Laureate Malala Yousafzai
Malala advises Principal, Mrs Marise McConaghy, to teach our girls to be “Respectfully Rebellious”.
2019
Wall of Inspirational Strathcona Women launched
2019
Strathcona won the award for Best STEAM Initiative at the EduTech Asia Awards
This award recognises a school that has taken their STEAM curriculum to the next level, created interdisciplinary learning experiences for its students by successfully incorporating both inquiry and problem-based learning methods.
2020
Continuous Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic
Students and teachers adapted brilliantly to learning virtually at the end of Term 1 as Australia went into home isolation to flatten the curve of the pandemic.
2024
Strathcona Celebrates it's 100th Year!
2024