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Last Updated: Thursday, 21 September 2017 16:02
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Written by Northside Christian College, Brisbane, Queensland
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.
Read more: Northside Christian College Recognised As A Leader In Education Innovation
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Last Updated: Friday, 28 July 2017 13:16
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Written by RUYTON GIRLS' SCHOOL, KEW VIC
Ursula K. Le Guin, writer, explored the vulnerable process of conversation in a piece titled Telling Is Listening. It focuses on understanding the art of conversation, where the message involves both the speaker and the listener, but is also a relationship between the two. The message is a complex code: a culture, in which the language, the speaker, and the listener are all embedded. Le Guin describes face-to-face human communication as intersubjective, a continuous interchange between two consciousnesses. Instead of alternating between the roles of speaker and listener, between the active and the passive, it is continuous and goes both ways all the time.
Read more: Principal of Ruyton Girls’ School, Ms Linda Douglas, reflects on the power of conversation.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 29 March 2017 10:02
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Written by Trinity Grammar School, Summer Hill NSW
Year 11 and 12 students from Trinity Grammar School, dedicated themselves to providing service to those most in need, as part of Trinity’s annual Service Week programme. One of the beneficiaries was Jervis Bay School whose students revelled in the attention provided by Senior Trinity boys.
Service Week is an initiative of Trinity Grammar School designed to encourage students to consider the impact they can have as both an individual, and as part of the School, on the broader outside community. The programme’s activities serve to raise awareness amongst the boys of the inequalities that may exist outside their own immediate sphere. Activities provide practical hands on experience by allowing boys to work collaboratively alongside a variety of charity groups, community volunteers and schools.
During the week-long annual programme, Year 11 and 12 students commit to a variety of activities such as feeding the homeless, serving the elderly, assisting to educate young people, and supporting charity centres and community support initiatives.
At Jervis Bay School, located near Nowra on the NSW South Coast, two Trinity students were placed in each of the four classes to assist students one-on-one and in small groups. Although they concentrated mainly on literacy and numeracy, the Trinity boys also helped Jervis Bay students prepare meals for family and friends as part of Harmony Day celebrations.
Read more: Trinity boys learn the art of selflessness
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. 
