Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School

Our Girls Firsts Hockey team will play in the AGSV/APS Grand Final tomorrow morning against Caulfield Grammar School.

They have trained hard and gone from strength to strength throughout the season. We wish them all the very best in this final match!

We celebrate our senior women’s fencing team who won a gold medal at the team fencing event over the weekend.
This result is a true testament to the commitment of the team to a sport which is as much about quick thinking as it is about skill. Congratulations!

The run of sporting excitement continues tonight at 10.00pm AEST with Liz Watson (Class of 2012) captaining the Australian Diamonds netball team in the Commonwealth Games semi-final against Jamaica.
The team won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022, defeating Jamaica by a narrow margin in that match. We’ve got our fingers crossed they can do it again!



📸 Commonwealth Games Australia

Best of luck to our Boys Firsts Soccer and Hockey teams who are playing in Grand Finals this afternoon against Trinity Grammar School and Camberwell Grammar School respectively. Both teams have had very successful seasons built on consistency and continuous improvement in both skill and collaboration.

We also send our best wishes to the Girls Firsts Soccer, Hockey and Netball teams who will play their AGSV/APS Semi-Final matches tomorrow.

GO PEGS!

Set your alarms! At 6.18am tomorrow (Friday 31 July), Linden Hall (Class of 2009) will run the 5000m final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Coming off a recent personal best time of 14:40.81, we’re sure it will be quite a race.

Go Linden!



📸 Australian Athletics

👠 42nd Street 👠- a high-energy tap-dance spectacular starring students from Year 8 to 12 will be performed at the Darebin Arts Centre, Preston, 7:30pm Thursday 13 August - Saturday 15 August.

Tickets available at https://www.pegs.vic.edu.au/events.

The show is a classic hit you won’t want to miss!

On Tuesday at the Premier’s VCE Award ceremony, we were pleased to witness two of our Class of 2025 students recognised as top performing students in the Victorian Certificate of Education.

William Armstrong received an award for Economics and Jessica Zhu an award for Politics.

We are very proud of their achievements and enjoyed catching up with both William and Jessica at the ceremony. We wish them all the very best in their future endeavours.

We welcome Olympian and CEO of the Victorian Institute of Sport, Nicole Livingstone OAM, to Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School as our speaker for the third and final instalment of the 2026 Thinking Seminar series. This will take place on Wednesday 22 July at 7.00pm in the HR Stevens Auditorium, Keilor East.

Ms Livingstone represented Australia at three Olympic Games and was a medallist 26 times across her Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacific Championship appearances. She holds the longest winning sequence of any Australian swimmer at the National Titles.

After retiring from competitive swimming, Ms Livingstone has made a significant mark on the sporting landscape of Australia, most notably at the helm of Women’s Football for the AFL, and presently as Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Institute of Sport.

Students, families and the wider community are warmly invited to attend. Ticket are available at www.pegs.vic.edu.au/events.

Year Nine and Ten students departed for a week on Country in Cape York this morning.

This immersive experience will allow our students to learn about Indigenous culture from Traditional Owners.

We look forward to hearing about their journey!

Our Year Eleven and Twelve students celebrated the halfway mark of the year with their Formal last night. There may be a few aching feet this morning but it was a fantastic night of dancing, laughter and fun.

We wish our whole community a safe and restorative term break, and look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 14 July.