If you’ve been looking around for parental controls to help manage your kids’ Apple devices, you might want to put on the brakes: The new operating system, iOS 12, has a feature called Screen Time that might have what you’re looking for, and it became available this month. Screen Time lets you see exactly how […]
National apology to victims and survivor...
On Monday, 22 October, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison will deliver a national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse at Parliament House in Canberra. Please click here to view the statement issued by The Archbishop of Brisbane The Most Reverend Dr Phillip Aspinall.
FOCUS IS MOVING ONLINE
As of October, FOCUS will become an online publication, with the Oct/Nov edition of the magazine being the final edition. FOCUS is moving online because it is a more cost-effective option; will be more inclusive; will provide more current news; will encourage more reader engagement; and, will reduce our carbon footprint. The FOCUS team is […]
Sisters win Australia’s top science awar
Sisters Emily (Year 11) and Ella (Year 8) Woods have won the 2018 University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize for secondary students for their short film “Gas Busters”, about lactose intolerance. Their prize was awarded at an August gala black-tie event in where the girls had the opportunity meet some of Australia’s leading […]
Finding treasure in the Prep School
Anglican Church Grammar School The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book Week theme this year was ‘find your treasure’, opening the doors to books about a wide range of themes and what it means for each student to find his or her own treasure. On Friday 24 August, Churchie’s Reception to Year 2 students welcomed girls from […]
Habit of Heart – To Be Compassionate
The Glennie School Our chapel services at the moment are focusing on what it means to be compassionate. The dictionary defines the word compassionate as: feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others. Compassion can be shown and lived in many different ways in our lives. Last week we showed great compassion for those with […]
Happy Early Childhood Educators’ Day!
Happy Early Childhood Educators’ Day to all of our wonderful staff across Queensland! Thank you for the stellar job you do in educating and caring for tomorrow’s leaders.
Five mindfulness activities you can try ...
The Southport School Zen Zone, a mindfulness-based wellbeing health initiative, is designed for our Year 2-6 students to teach practical strategies that aim to enhance focus and concentration, self-confidence, compassion and emotion regulation. We know that mindfulness is a way that we can ‘train our brain’, but we need to practice this regularly. Meditation is […]
Headlights
The Glennie School As parents, we all value and support independence in our children. I know I was certainly happy when our own children gained greater independence, self-help and problem solving skills. Parenting guru, Michael Grose’s latest book entitled, ‘Spoonfed Generation: How to raise independent children’, provides some valuable thoughts, tips and ideas to assist […]
Celebrating cultural diversity in the bo...
St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School In the second week of this term, the Boarding House held its second annual ‘See my difference, See my worth’ festival to celebrate the boarding community’s vibrant cultural diversity. The two-day event featured a program of rich experiences celebrating the uniqueness of every one of our 170 boarders who hail […]