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Friday, 15 Oct 2021

Back to School with Confidence

Many students are excited to return to school and will thrive as they return to classrooms. Some students, however, may be feeling anxious about the return, having enjoyed the comforts and flexibility of learning from home. Students may be worried they have fallen behind, anxious about friendship groups or concerned...

Friday, 08 Oct 2021

If you can be anything, be kind.

Many years ago I remember sitting with a young student who had lashed out angrily at a classmate. The classmate was crying as they dealt with their wounds; bruises to his leg and his pride. The classmate had bravely shared their feelings and now I was attempting to negotiate a...

Friday, 10 Sept 2021

Pathways

Yesterday I shut my laptop and used the last hours of sunlight to prune a hedge in my garden. This hedge runs along a fence line and my kelpie disappears behind it regularly. As I pruned back overgrown branches, I discovered a well-worn pathway that creates a circuit. Lewis follows...

Friday, 20 Aug 2021

How’s Your Self-Talk?

Have you ever tried to brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand? Or tie your shoelace with a different method? Maybe your favourite seat was taken at your local park, church or café table and you had to sit somewhere else. When you had something interrupt your routine, how did...

Friday, 13 Aug 2021

Great Expectations

As I drive into the school gates each morning I have expectations. I expect to see the school come alive as car parks fill. I expect to hear the happy hum of hundreds of students filling the campus as they tumble out of cars and spill from buses. I expect...

Friday, 06 Aug 2021

Year 7 2022 Orientation Day

The Year 6 students had such a fun day for their Year 7 Orientation Day. They got to know each other more, met a few teachers and had a variety of sampler High School type classes. They were given snacks at recess and a packed lunch on the grass before playing...

Friday, 06 Aug 2021

Never Give Up

To be persistent is to never give up no matter what difficulty or opposition you may face. Across our campus we teach persistence in our wellbeing programs from Kindy through to Year 10. Our Primary School program is called ‘Bounce Back’ and to teach this value one of the books...

Friday, 30 July 2021

Time Flies

Thank goodness for the Olympic Games. I am in no way dismissing the seriousness of the situation we are in as a nation with the current health crisis. However, I sure do appreciate having things to celebrate and something else to focus on right now. Our Australian representatives are doing...

Friday, 23 July 2021

Year 4 Aussie Day

On Wednesday Year 4 students dressed as an Aussie ready to take part in a variety of Australian activities.  Before lunch they took part in baking Anzac biscuits, outdoor singing of old Australian songs, building sand castles, playing backyard cricket and running in and throwing gumboots. After devouring a barbequed sausage...

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