Queenwood News / Opinion

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: 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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Spotlight On: Hope

6 November 2020

Hope is a powerful thing and many would agree that it is an essential element in a good life. It should not just be a feeling that spontaneously overcomes us but something we intentionally practise. That can be hard to do, especially this year, but this is exactly why I feel so privileged to be a teacher.

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Spotlight On: Kindness

30 October 2020

The messages I shared with staff were from parents who described girls who are happy, flourishing, growing in independence and confidence. There are so many of these girls… and it would be easy for me to stop writing here. But we need to be honest: at any given time there will also be a number of girls who are not feeling this way. They feel a bit lost, unconnected, uneasy with their peers. They worry that everyone else seems happy, while they don’t fit in.

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Spotlight On: Why Debating Matters

23 October 2020

In early October, the second debate in the US Presidential election campaign was cancelled – at least in person – and when a virtual format was proposed as an alternative, it was dismissed by the President: ‘That is not what a debate is all about…It’s ridiculous.’

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Spotlight On: Generosity

16 October 2020

Queenwood was founded by women with a commitment to service – service to their students and, through them, to the world. 

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Spotlight On: Empowering Our Girls

24 September 2020

This morning I watched a special moment for your Kindergarten and Year 2 students. The Year 2 students wrote fairy tales earlier in the term and then read their stories to a delighted group of Kindergarten girls. It is an empowering process – the Year 2s, as little as they are with wobbly teeth and scuffed knees, become the grown-up in the room.

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Spotlight On: Gratitude

18 September 2020

The emerging theme of 2020 is, for me, gratitude. Here are four things for which I am grateful.

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Spotlight On: Why Children Draw

11 September 2020

I recently asked a group of small children to make a birthday card for their grandfather. I laid out crayons, markers, pencils, coloured paper, scissors and glue and reminded them that they needed to consider not what interested them, but what might interest ‘Papa’ and make him happy on his birthday.

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Spotlight On: The Class of 2020

4 September 2020

While there is talk all around us about finding ways to have graduations and ceremonies to mark Year 12, and while we are doing all that we can not only to do these things in a constrained environment while making sure that we do recognise the very special achievements of the Class of 2020, their individuality and their specialness, there is more to the story of what will always be a storied year.

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