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Empowering Girls<br />
The Rite Journey<br />
The start of the school year marks a unique opportunity for girls entering year 10<br />
at St Margaret’s College. As they come of age and move from adolescence to adulthood<br />
they are guided through this often challenging journey with the help of a programme<br />
that was adopted by St Margaret’s six years ago.<br />
The Rite Journey is a year long programme that provides unique life skills that support<br />
the development of self-aware, responsible and resilient young women.<br />
Lisa Cahine (Y11) won The Rite Journey Girls’ Guidebook Cover Design Challenge for<br />
2016 and her design features on over 2,500 guidebooks distributed to schools for <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
“The reason I chose to base my design around a silver fern is because a fern leaf<br />
is a ‘grown up’ Koru. The Koru is the symbol for growing, as it grows into the leaf,<br />
it matures and its colour also deepens into a deeper green. To me, the Rite Journey<br />
programme is all about maturing and looking at things at a much deeper level than<br />
before. I chose to substitute the different elements of the leaf with people. Furthermore,<br />
because the Rite Journey programme is about growing, for women especially, I chose<br />
to do the walking silhouette of a woman. I also chose this because in the programme<br />
we are encouraged to keep going and keep fighting, no matter what the issue is. The<br />
walking women/girls in the photo symbolise that. The background colour also has<br />
a significant meaning to it. As the colour becomes darker, the bigger the girls become.<br />
This is because I wanted to include an element of getting older and maturing. The darker<br />
pink shows this because, in the case of the Koru, darker colours show maturity.”<br />
AUTUMN <strong>2017</strong> 9.