In each Golden Quill, we will be featuring one of our wonderful former GHSS students. What are they up to now? What did they love about their time at Golden Hill? Watch this space to find out! This week, we meet Zaydee Kiagoes.

Zaydee began her Steiner education in Kindy 4 at Mount Barker Waldorf School in South Australia, before enrolling at Golden Hill to see out the remainder of her kindergarten and primary school years. After completing Class 6 in 2017, Zaydee went on to Year 8 at Great Southern Grammar, spending most of her high school years there as a boarding student.

After graduating high school in 2022, Zaydee gained entry into a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) degree at Curtin University in Perth.

Zaydee has now completed her first year of university, and has just taken the semester off to complete her Certificate III and IV of Health and Fitness and personal training. She hopes to lead group fitness classes and work as a part-time personal trainer whilst completing the rest of her university degree.

In her spare time, Zaydee loves to surf, travel, play guitar, and work out at the gym.  She is currently in training to compete in a bodybuilding competition in 2025.

“Some of my best memories from Golden Hill were the festivals - they were a big part of the school. I also really loved being introduced to so many different things at GHSS - different arts and crafts, surfing lessons, songwriting - so many of these things are my hobbies and interests now. I am actually halfway through making a crochet shopping bag right now.

I also really valued how holistic and broad my Steiner education was. I think there is a bit of a stereotype that you don’t do much Science in Steiner primary school, but everything we did was so multifaceted. Then by the time I went to Grammar for high school, I was ready for more structured, formalised science experiments, and still love science today.”