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- Written by: MORETON BAY COLLEGE, MANLY WEST QLD
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13 August 2019. Manly West, Brisbane:
After an exciting weekend filled with thrills and spills, The Moreton Bay Colleges’ Mountain Bike Club have defended their title of Mountain Biking Australia Schools National Champions for 2019.
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- Written by: St Teresa's Catholic College, Noosaville QLD
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Congratulations to the St Teresa's Catholic College Dance students on their recent eisteddfod success.
On Saturday 27th July, Dance Troupes competed in the Australian Pinnacle Dance Challenge. The results were:
1st Place: Year 7-12 Lyrical (Body Love)
1st Place: Year 10-12 Lyrical (Mad at You, choreographed by students Amber Faleono, Ivy Simons, Jemima Fitzpatrick &Tianah Gesell).
1st Place: Year 7-9 Lyrical (All I Want)
3rd Place: Year 7-12 Lyrical (I Won’t Complain)
Honourable Mention: Year 7-12 Contemporary (Bad Guy)
Honourable Mention: Year 7-9 Jazz (End of Time)
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- Written by: Peter Carnley Anglican Community School - Wellard WA
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At Peter Carnley Anglican Community School (PCACS) 'Play' provides opportunities for children to learn as they discover, create, improvise and imagine. When children play with other children they create social groups, test out ideas, challenge each other’s thinking and build new understandings.
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- Written by: St Catherine's School, Sydney NSW
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You might agonise over the co-ed versus single sex schools question endlessly. After all, the world is made up of men and women, girls and boys, and every shade in between in this age of gender fluidity. And let's not kid ourselves. The world is not a gender-equal co-ed playing field. How will she learn to navigate this if she is in an all-girls environment?
Well it might surprise you how strong the evidence is for choosing an all-girls' school.
Gender bias1 is still a real and pressing problem for women in the workforce and women in general. And it affects schools in equal measure. Freeing girls up from gender bias at a formative stage in their education has been proved to have significant influence on girls' confidence and self-esteem. Countless studies have shown that from around nine-years-old girls' confidence dips below boys which affects the choices they make at home, school and work.
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- Written by: St Rose Catholic Primary School - Collaroy Plateau NSW
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St Rose has been ranked Number 1 Primary School on the Northern Beaches. CONGRATULATIONS to all our hard working teachers and Students.
https://privateschoolsguide.com/st-rose-catholic-primary-school-collaroy-plateau-nsw
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- Written by: St Teresa's Catholic College, Noosaville QLD
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Each year in conjunction with Lexis English College, St Teresa’s students welcome a group of Japanese students from Otemon High School in Osaka and spend a day at school learning about each other’s country, culture and language. Students often end the day exchanging social media contacts with a promise to ‘stay in touch’.
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- Written by: Ambrose Treacy College Indooroopilly Queensland
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Michael Senior, Ambrose Treacy College Principal, reflects on how fast time flies by and how to make more time for joy, rather than rushing from one task to another.
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- Written by: St Catherine's School, Sydney NSW
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Explicit instruction (or direct instruction) is a teaching method whereby the teacher tells students what to do and shows them how to do it. The education researcher John Hattie notes: ‘The teacher decides the learning intentions and success criteria, makes them transparent to the students, demonstrates them by modeling, evaluates if they understand what they have been told by checking for understanding, and re-telling them what they have been told by tying it all together with closure’1. It contrasts with the constructivist (or discovery-based / enquiry-based) teaching method, whereby students construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world through experiential learning.
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- Written by: MARYMOUNT COLLEGE BURLEIGH WATERS QLD
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They are the two Gold Coast inventions that could win a big youth Science prize – and save lives.
Since 1981 the BHP Billiton Science and Engineering Awards have been Australia's most prestigious school Science awards. They reward young people who have used technological innovation to design a new invention or who have undertaken practical research projects that demonstrate innovative approaches and thorough scientific procedures.
Students projects from across the country compete to become a national finalist in this elite competition. A total of 26 finalists have been selected from across Australia.
Marymount college students Lachlan Zidar and Jared Crowley are both 2018 finalists.
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- Written by: Peace Lutheran College Cairns
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Peace Lutheran College's Peace Performing Arts Centre has showcased its very first recording artists with Year 8 student, Dean Brady singing "Hallelujah" and Year 9 student, Holly Cummings performing her original composition, "Jealousy". This state-of-the-art building boasts boutique performance space with the latest AV and lighting, recording studio, seven practice rooms and two customised music-teaching spaces. The performing arts centre is a wonderful addition to our College facilities and will be well utilised by our Arts students and their teachers.
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- Written by: Northside Christian College, Brisbane, Queensland
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Northside Christian College has been named one of Australia’s forty most innovative schools by The Educator.
The award recognises outstanding educators who are improving teaching and learning outcomes through technology and innovative practices.
The College has strategically prioritised innovation and creativity to ensure its graduates are equipped for the job market of the future.
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- Written by: RUYTON GIRLS' SCHOOL, KEW VIC
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STEM in the early years
In 2016, a group of educators from Catholic Education Western Australia explored Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education with young children. Sarah Denholm, the recently appointed Director of Ruyton Early Learning at Ruyton Girls’ School, documented and shared their journey through the publication of the iBook STEM in the Early Years: A Journey.
Young children are capable and competent learners who have their own theories and thinking about the world around them. Educators should acknowledge children’s prior knowledge and foster their natural curiosity for STEM. Early experience with STEM helps build skills for problem solving, research, investigation, creativity, design and construction.
- Principal of Ruyton Girls’ School, Ms Linda Douglas, reflects on the power of conversation.
- Inaburra School unveils new learning spaces
- Wellbeing for Learning; Year 7 Camp
- GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA NATIONAL SCHOOLS EVENT
- Kaloudis Sisters play at US Kids Golf Australian Open
- Outstanding 2016 VCE Results
- 2016 Sport Representatives
- Parents - Do You Know What Your Children Do Online?
- OnSTAGE nominations 2016
- All Saints Grammar STEM Students build solar car and compete in UNSW SunSprint Challenge
