Tips and Tricks for HSC Success
Madeleine Taplin The Higher School Certificate (HSC) examinations are looming on the horizon. For every child in the education system, the final Year 12 exams are often something approached with a sense of uncertainty, fear and anxiety. So, how do we ensure that...
Home Learning: Maintaining a Schedule
Madeleine Taplin As Sydney remains in lockdown, a number of things about our daily lives have changed. Most importantly, online learning is back, forcing kids out of the classroom and into home-study. It is well known that children tend to be sensitive to change. It...
The Kitchen Garden Foundation – Food Education
Madeleine Taplin For so many children, healthy eating habits come from hours spent with their parents in the kitchen. However sadly, many children don’t get to experience these fundamental moments due to a variety of reasons such as busy schedules and work timetables....
Digital Citizenship: Benefits of Online Gaming
Sarah Wainwright Let’s break it down! Video games span from a simple, single player card game to massive multiplayer online games with virtual universes, where players interact and deal with transactions in the form of points, game enhancements and money. Video games...
Consent Education Matters
Madeleine Taplin If you have been paying attention to the news recently, you would be aware of the massive debates that have arisen over consent education, particularly the way in which this education is presented in schools. Following these debates, the government...
What Type of Learner Are You?
Matthew Wai Studying is not for everyone, well at least, not in every circumstance. Most of us don’t love to study, especially with subjects or theories that we do not want to interact with. The loss of motivation and energy is relatively common. We would therefore...
Celebrate Sydney Writers’ Festival Locally
Matthew Wai After a long halt from all the cancellations and delays from the previous year due to COVID-19, Sydney Writers’ Festival is excited to announce various events occurring in the coming days. Quite a few events as part of the 2021 program are being...
Premier’s Reading Challenge
Madeleine Taplin The 2021 Premier's Reading Challenge has just begun, with students from Kindergarten up to Year 9 encouraged to take part in the challenge, reading between 20-30 books for leisure. This year’s challenge is focusing on diversity and representation,...
Revolutionary Changes for NSW Education Curriculum
Matthew Wai NSW Department of Education has announced significant changes to the education curriculum as of 2022. With the curriculum evolution announcement, students are soon to be able to select up to twenty new digitally enabled courses, including robotics and...
Loreto Normanhurst Virtual Open Day
Join our Virtual Open Day – everything you need, in one place, to help make your choice. This year’s Open Day will be hosted virtually through our curated Open Day Microsite. The Open Day Microsite will bring families the rich offerings of our school through feature...
Childcare Gets a Funding Boost
More than $11 million in funding has been announced to help preschool and daycare centres improve their services. Preschool and daycare centres across the state will be able to improve their services, with more than $11 million in funding announced this week. The NSW...
GCS Gallery’s New Exhibit
The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is set to present works by three Sydney based artists, Jan Handel, Melinda Marshman and Lisa Woolfe. The works created for this exhibition are a response to the practice of Shinrin-yoku or Forest Bathing. Originating in Japan in the...