St Andrew’s Anglican College The most significant change in Senior Secondary education in Queensland for almost 40 years will be enacted from January 2019! Here are some key points to note about this revised Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) system: 1. Current Year 10 students (2018) will be the first cohort in Queensland to progress […]
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Habits of the Heart
The Glennie School This semester we are beginning a series in Junior, Middle and Senior Years Chapel services on the Habits of the Heart. The idea is to help us develop habits in our lives that nourish ourselves and others, helping us to grow in faith and service. To form good habits we need to intentionally […]
The Problem of Popularity
The Glennie School We all worry about friendships, play dates, birthday parties, who’s in and who’s out. Sometimes we worry more than our children do. We want them to be happy and enjoy having lots of friends. We are sad when they fall out with friends and anxious when they make a friend we are […]
St Paul’s School I hope that the students had a wonderful break over the winter holidays, and that those who were lucky enough to travel with their family, or go on one of the four School tours, had a wonderful time. My son was married on the first weekend of the holidays. It was […]
Tips on active listening for better comm...
St Andrew’s Anglican College Over the past couple of days I have had the privilege of undertaking a number of individual interviews with our Year 10 students. The purpose of these interviews is to look at each student’s character profile, focus on their interests, strengths and passions, and then to link this in with the […]
Santa’s Workshop!
Cannon Hill Anglican College Our recent Santa’s Workshop was a lovely, fun and innovative way to finish off Term 2, and brought big smiles to the faces of both Prep and Year 8 students, as well as the staff involved. This year, the Industrial Technology and Design Faculty (ITD) adopted the new ACARA National Curriculum […]
Men’s Health Week
The Southport School Last week at TSS, we celebrated Men’s Health Week. Around the world, this week aims to highlight the challenging and pertinent issues (both mental and physical) related to men’s health, as well as acknowledge the strengths and contributions that men bring to society. This year we chose to celebrate and promote the […]
Former Churchie Student Makes State of O...
Kalyn Ponga is a professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League. The 20-year-old rising star has been selected for the Maroons to come off the bench in Sunday’s State of Origin II. In 2013, Ponga, then a scholarship holder with the Brisbane Broncos, moved to Brisbane. He […]
Character Toolkit for Teachers
On Monday morning, this amazing book, CHARACTER TOOLKIT FOR TEACHERS arrived on my desk at The Anglican Schools Commission at Church House in Brisbane. I am passionate about Character Education and have had the joy of visiting the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at Birmingham University in the UK. One of the students from […]
The finished beginning
Anglican Church Grammar School The longitudinal New Generation Learning Spaces (NGLS) project, in partnership with the University of Melbourne’s Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN), presents one of the first longitudinal empirical studies that evaluates the impact of secondary school learning spaces on teaching and learning. It addresses significant gaps in the literature around an […]