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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: 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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Spotlight On: Good Conversations

26 February 2021

I also asked the girls who approached me this week whether they had had any explicit discussion of consent at home, and hardly any of them had. This is anecdotal, of course, but I’m sure it’s not because their parents don’t think it’s important. Trust me, though: your girls want to talk about this. Even though it’s ‘cringey’ for everybody involved, they really want to talk about this.

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Spotlight On: Good Habits

19 February 2021

A few years ago I was astonished when a girl in Year 11 (not Queenwood) showed me her mobile phone use statistics. Her Screentime data for the past week showed she had spent 55 hours on her phone, of which 35 hours were on Snapchat. So on top of her school day and study schedule, she was clocking 8 hours a day, 7 days per week, on her phone. And her Snapchat commitment alone was the equivalent of a full-time job.

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Spotlight On: Communication

12 February 2021

There are moments when you realise how old you are. One of mine was when – years ago – I listened to a group of Year 10 students laughing riotously at their parents’ texting habits.

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Spotlight On: Reading

5 February 2021

Right now, your eyes are tracking across this page from left to right and you are reading without much thought about the processes that are going on in your brain.  Reading for you is easy. In fact, one could say that it is automatic – or, at least, it feels automatic.

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Spotlight On: Harnessing Uncertainty

20 November 2020

We are living in unbelievably uncertain times. We are watching the confusing aftermath of a momentous election while the virus is still spreading like wildfire across the world. Our vision of the next few years is hazy and blurry. So, what does this uncertainty mean for us, as girls and as students striving for our goals? Has our fortune and privilege equipped us with the skills necessary to face fear and uncertainty? We often hear ‘we learn from mistakes, not from successes’ and ‘the way we handle mistakes determines who we are.’ But does success only come from a place of failure? Of working and reworking issues until they are resolved? Or can success come from a place of fear or uncertainty?

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Spotlight On: Social Media

13 November 2020

In Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, Silicon Valley experts reveal the sophisticated psychological techniques coded into social media platforms, which aim to hook users, retain their attention and manipulate their behaviour.

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