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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: Revisiting Rites of Passage

12 June 2020

Queenwood offers much to develop the perseverance, integrity and resilience required in adult life. School camps are slightly less extreme than bungee jumps and insect stings but the point of the physical challenge is the same. When girls come away surprised at what they can achieve, they learn in a powerful way that anxiety is not a reliable indicator of potential.

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Through a Glass, Darkly

5 June 2020

Some things are seen more clearly from the outside. And from the outside, it is easy for Australians to see in this week’s scenes from America the injustice, the fear, the racism, the excesses, the manipulation, the hypocrisy, the rage and the despair.

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Spotlight On: A Bigger World

29 May 2020

If we set the bar low and expect young people to be interested only in themselves, we will find our expectations sadly fulfilled. If we never expose them to ideas that fall outside the experience of their own short lives, is it any wonder that their interests remain narrow? What a dreary vision of the future. Young people deserve more: more opportunity and more respect. Set the bar high, and they will rise to it. 

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Spotlight On: The Girls

22 May 2020

In precarious times like these, it is important to remember that everyone is coping differently and in their own way. While some of you may be simply ecstatic to come back to school, just remember that not everyone is feeling this way and, most importantly, that not feeling that way is perfectly okay. Look out for the people around you (not just your friends), as support is a necessity and key to a formidable comeback!

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Spotlight On: Our Community

27 March 2020

Whatever else happens, this is a time when we are going to learn a lot about communities – how we contribute to them, how we hold each other up and how we pull together.

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Spotlight On: Teaching Languages

6 March 2020

The Accelerative Integrated Methodology (AIM), developed by Wendy Maxwell in Canada, is an approach to teaching foreign languages that enables students to learn vocabulary and structures through scaffolded techniques which use gestures, active collaboration and repetition.

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Spotlight On: Standardised Testing

28 February 2020

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) was again in the press this week. A detailed review to be released on Tuesday will report that Australian primary school students have registered a slow but statistically significant improvement since it was introduced in 2008.

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Spotlight On: Reading

21 February 2020

A key literacy strategy for 2020 began in Week 1 this term with our daily timetabled sustained silent reading program, ‘Just Read’. With all year groups from Kindergarten to Year 11 taking part in ‘Just Read’, some of our students will be reading a book of their own choosing, on a daily basis, for the first time in a long while.

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Spotlight On: TikTok

14 February 2020

Social media, when used effectively, is an unprecedented tool to foster creativity, deep conversation and meaningful connections. It can also be an escape, a commodity, a marketing tool, a vehicle for 15 minutes of fame, a way to receive the latest news or a simply a distraction.

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Spotlight On: The Value of Routines

7 February 2020

Routines help foster independence and confidence. Rather than constantly being told what to do, routines can return responsibility to children so that they can show initiative and feel empowered.

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