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Dear Families
A Santa Sabina education has always been more than what happens in the classroom. It is a formation of intellect, of character, of purpose that shapes how our youth move through the world.
That formation is sustained across generations. Not only through teaching and leadership, but through the quiet, collective commitment of a community that chooses to invest in what matters.
THE 2026 ANNUAL
APPEAL
Each year, members of the Santa Sabina community, families, alumni and friends contribute in ways that reflect their connection to the College and their belief in its future.
Some choose to support access through scholarships. Others contribute to the ongoing renewal and care of the College's spaces. Many participate in both.
What matters most is the continuity of that commitment and the shared understanding that each contribution, at every level, forms part of something larger than any one individual.
This year, the Annual Appeal invites support across two enduring priorities of the College:
- Scholarships
Expanding access to a Santa Sabina education for students of promise, ensuring that talent, leadership and potential are not limited by circumstance. - Learning Environment & Facilities
Sustaining and enhancing the physical environment in which students learn, gather and grow, ensuring spaces that are contemporary, considered and supportive of wellbeing and year-round comfort with a particular focus on providing air-conditioning for our community and learning spaces.
One invests in people. The other, in the environment that enables them to flourish.
Both are essential.
IMPACT
In 2025, support from this community:
- paid for means-tested scholarships for four students
- helped fund the new Rosary Garden on the Del Monte Campus
- contributed to renovations of student bathrooms, classroom and other spaces on both campuses
- protected students with retractable shade covers and soft fall play surfaces
- provided new equipment for sport and co-curricular activities.
A MOMENT FROM WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
There is a particular quality to a Santa Sabina education at its best: a sense of focus, or energy, of students fully present to the moment of learning.
For one current student, that experience has been transformative. Supported through a scholarship, she speaks of the College not simply as a place of education, but as a place where expectation and belief have expanded what she imagined possible for herself.
I've been in Australia a year and a half, the first year I went to an intensive English school. Now at Santa Sabina, the scholarship has pushed me forward to make my own confidence and achieve my goals in a supportive envrionment, where I can grow persoanlly and academically. I really appreciate Santa Sabina for giving me this opportunity, and thank you for investing in me and my education.
Scholarship Recipient
Equally, for those who have spent time within the College across many years, there is a recognition that the spaces themselves matter, that environments which are calm, light-filled and comfortable allow students to concentrate, participate and thrive.
YOUR PARTICIPATION
The 2026 Annual Appeal offers an opportunity to contribute to an environment that is shaped, in part, by the generosity of those before.
You may wish to direct your support to The Scholarship Fund – extending opportunity and access OR The Building Fund – sustaining and enhancing the College environment OR contribute across both.
LOOKING AHEAD
Santa Sabina's strength lies in its ability to hold together tradition and progress, to honour what has been built, while continuing to evolve in response to the needs of each generation.
Philanthropy plays a quiet but essential role in that balance.
Donations of $2 or more are tax-deductible and the Foundation will also provide you with a tax receipt.
Paulina Skerman
College Principal
Peta Magee
Foundation Chair
