From the PDHPE classroom to history, science and beyond, teachers at Queenwood School are working to raise the bar in discipline-specific writing skills – and an instructional framework is paving the way.
If we want our children to understand as much as possible about the world, we can't leave their acquisition of fundamental knowledge to chance.
As the girls arrive at School in the morning, striding through the gate and into their classrooms, they are welcomed and acknowledged. They should expect to be noticed - they belong in their School.
When teachers put down their whiteboard markers at the end of last year, the world was spinning smoothly on its axis. By mid-January, however, artificial intelligence and ChatGPT had hit the headlines and the educational future had, allegedly, changed forever.
Congratulations to our Smart Study Research Team who have received a grant from the Association of Independent Schools to investigate the relationship between academic independence and wellbeing for girls in Years 9 & 10. We look forward to supporting our girls in developing confidence and motivation through a structured study skills program.
This was my shoe when I started Kindergarten in 2016 and there were many on this day, boldly shiny and proudly red, almost sparkly.
Australian schools are grappling with a global shortage of teachers. Our nation's future depends on reversing these trends for the benefit of all our young people.
“The digital environment was conceived as an environment for adult users. Not even its inventors thought it might one day be a place where childhood would be spent. Nor did they make any design concessions for child users. On the contrary, the utopian vision was that all users would be equal. And if all users are equal, then a child user is treated as if they were an adult”.
Big tech might look at our classrooms and see inefficiency; we see space and time for students to grapple with ideas at their own pace so that they might grow in independence.
We monitor girls’ behaviour at school but, as always, the strongest line of defence is education.