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Last week ÃØÉ«´«Ã½ students and staff enjoyed celebrating Book Week. In House Groups, students participated in an Emoji Book Challenge and a Book Week House Quiz, with Dianella taking out the challenge on Friday. ÃØÉ«´«Ã½ were invited to participate in Black Out Poetry activities and in their Wide Reading English classes, students learnt about the work of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and were i...

This week our students officially concluded their sessions with Humankind Enterprises. Over the past five weeks, a group of Year 9 and 10 students have worked with Sophie and John from Humankind Enterprises as part of the Story Collector program. The students have learnt skills in active listening and interviewing, in addition to the technical skills of filming and editing their interviews. The gi...

The care and safety of our students is paramount. Many students are arriving at school very early in the morning before formal supervision by staff commences at 8.20am. Although many members of staff are at school before this time they are engaged in class preparation or scheduled cocurricular activities. Once your daughter is at school, it is important that she remain on the premises and not leav...

ÃØÉ«´«Ã½ in Year 8 were challenged by participating in a workshop called 'Just Society' facilitated by High Resolves. Definitions of justice, equity and equality were discussed as students, working in groups, examined issues pertaining to the distribution of wealth, resources and opportunity. ÃØÉ«´«Ã½ examined where, throughout the world, resources are distributed and challenged to consider where ...

Why is sleep so important? Sleep is vital for children’s and adolescent's wellbeing. Sleep supports healthy development of the body and mind. Evidence shows that children and adolescents who do not get enough sleep have more trouble learning. They are less attentive and motivated, have poor problem solving, more confusion, increased irritability, reduced memory, impaired communication, slowe...

The importance of education as a means to changing one’s opportunities is generally widely valued in society. It is sometimes difficult for our students at ÃØÉ«´«Ã½ College to value their education and understand that it is a privilege as much as it is their right. It is at times uncomfortable to acknowledge the class stratification that clearly exists in Australia, but we live in a world that ...