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The Science behind 'PLAY' at PCACS

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Last Updated: Friday, 06 September 2019 11:26

Written by Peter Carnley Anglican Community School - Wellard WA

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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Number 1 on the Northern Beaches

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 17 April 2019 12:30

Written by St Rose Catholic Primary School - Collaroy Plateau NSW

St Rose has been ranked Number 1 Primary School on the Northern Beaches. CONGRATULATIONS to all our hard working teachers and Students.

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Finding Time for Joy!

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Last Updated: Friday, 06 September 2019 11:26

Written by Ambrose Treacy College Indooroopilly Queensland

WHY CHOOSE A GIRLS' SCHOOL?

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 17 April 2019 12:56

Written by St Catherine's School, Sydney NSW

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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Noosa students a hit in Japan

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Last Updated: Friday, 06 September 2019 11:24

Written by St Teresa's Catholic College, Noosaville QLD

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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The importance of explicit instruction

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Last Updated: Monday, 14 October 2024 10:25

Written by St Catherine's School, Sydney NSW

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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