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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Most Important Asset
St Paul’s School Towards the end of our child’s formal school education, many of us have changed our view of what education is all about. As exam time looms and decisions have to be made on the QTAC application form (Tertiary Admissions), the sole focus becomes results that can be measured. There is an adage […]
Wellbeing and Cyber Safety
Cannon Hill Anglican College At the recent Queensland Anglican Schools biennial conference, the topic of Wellbeing was widely canvassed. Within this broad area, Cyber Safety and the digital world received special attention. CHAC families will recall the compelling presentation given by Dr Michael Carr-Gregg at the College in February this year. Michael was also one […]