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Spotlight On: International Day of the Girl Child

18 October 2024

On Friday 11 October, it was International Day of the Girl Child which was set up by the United Nations in 2011. The aims are to focus attention on the need to address the challenges girls face, and to promote girls’ empowerment and fulfilment of their human rights.

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Spotlight On: True Wellbeing

28 May 2021

​Good mental health, Dr Damour argues, is ‘when you have the right feeling at the right time and you are able to manage it effectively’. As we all know, tension, stress, worry, sadness and anxiety can be the proper response to difficult circumstances, and adults often best help young people by helping them reframing these feelings as ‘the right feeling’ in response to that particular challenge – and therefore a sign of emotional maturity and mental strength.

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Spotlight on: Reporting

21 May 2021

It has been noted by researchers that the purpose of education is not to sort students – it is to grow students. Teachers are there to coach and mentor, but with ranks and grades only, teachers turn into judges. We can show the unique abilities of students in many ways, without just stratifying them.

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Spotlight on: Agency & Responsibility

14 May 2021

One of the pillars of a Queenwood education is independence. We want to encourage our girls to be independent in mind and spirit, to develop into women prepared to chart their own course, seek truth and live courageously.

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Spotlight On: Empathy

7 May 2021

Empathy is what sets humans apart from other species and robots.  It allows us to relate to other people and their experiences, helps us understand how others may be feeling and contributes to us being compassionate. The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that empathy is an ‘antidote to righteousness’ and is key to addressing the polarisation that threatens to undermine democracies. In addition, so-called ‘soft skills’ are increasingly recognised as essential to both personal and professional success, with research emerging to suggest that empathy is essential to developing the capacity to cooperate and collaborate.

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Spotlight on: Engaging with the World

30 April 2021

Back in February as the school year commenced, Ms Stone set the girls a challenge: to be a little bit more kind, every day. In order to encourage this theme of kindness, the Year 12s set up a Google form, where all girls from the Senior School could submit anonymous stories about acts of kindness that they had seen or experienced from their time at Queenwood, big or small.

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Spotlight on: Speaking Up & Listening

23 April 2021

The term is only a few days old and already we are in top gear. A notable event in this first week was the meeting on Wednesday for any interested Senior School girl to discuss her thoughts, suggestions and questions about sexual assault and harassment.

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Spotlight On: Harmony Day

26 March 2021

In keeping with our Social Justice intentions of ensuring a greater commitment and understanding of important issues that impact on society, on individuals, and on us as a community it is important that recognition and acknowledgement are informed, genuine and substantial. Having Ms Abdile here addressing our students gave substance to the occasion. Her powerful poetry together with her account of her journey to Australia, sojourn on Christmas Island, and her experience as a refugee served as a reminder to us all of our shared humanity.

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Spotlight On: Goal Setting & Feedback

19 March 2021

Research into theories of motivation tells us that goal setting is essential to performance, and that the best goals take feedback and early results into account, while focusing on learning rather than performance.

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Spotlight On: Developing Agency

12 March 2021

Developing agency, the capacity to act independently and make our own free choices, is essential to a fulfilling and purposeful life, but it is hard. Throwing around slogans – ‘you can do anything’, ‘life is what you make it’ – won’t take us far (even if there is a grain of truth). More honest and more helpful is to acknowledge the difficulties, address the barriers and then set high expectations.

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Spotlight On: Wiser Together

5 March 2021

I have been a teacher for almost two decades yet I am still stumped when it comes to my own children – aged 6 and 8. Over cereal this morning I was asked: to list the most venomous spiders in the world by region; how to find ‘C’ on a piano keyboard; who is the best Australian author; and whether you tie soccer boot laces differently to school shoe laces.

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