The Southport School Zen Zone, a mindfulness-based wellbeing health initiative, is designed for our Year 2-6 students to teach practical strategies that aim to enhance focus and concentration, self-confidence, compassion and emotion regulation. We know that mindfulness is a way that we can ‘train our brain’, but we need to practice this regularly. Meditation is […]
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The Glennie School As parents, we all value and support independence in our children. I know I was certainly happy when our own children gained greater independence, self-help and problem solving skills. Parenting guru, Michael Grose’s latest book entitled, ‘Spoonfed Generation: How to raise independent children’, provides some valuable thoughts, tips and ideas to assist […]
Celebrating cultural diversity in the bo...
St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School In the second week of this term, the Boarding House held its second annual ‘See my difference, See my worth’ festival to celebrate the boarding community’s vibrant cultural diversity. The two-day event featured a program of rich experiences celebrating the uniqueness of every one of our 170 boarders who hail […]
What the new Senior School system means ...
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 […]
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 […]