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