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From the Head of Senior School
You sit by fires you did not build; you drink from wells you did not dig…
17 May 2018
From the Deputy Head of Senior School
Year 10 students are currently on one of many Outdoor Education expeditions, or participating in our Year 10 Enrichment Week Program. Next semester students participate in the alternate program.
03 May 2018
From the Head of Senior School
The Year 12 Formal takes place this Saturday night at Leonda on the Yarra, and it’s an absolute highlight of the School calendar for me, not least because of the way our Year 12s rise to the occasion, aware of its social significance as an important moment in denoting the rites of passage from ch
19 April 2018
From the Deputy Head of Senior School
Scholars Assembly: Academic endeavour, achievement and scholarship
13 April 2018
From the Head of Senior School
I read a great book over the holidays by Yuval Noah Harari entitled 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. It provided compelling food for thought.
13 April 2018
From the Head of Senior School
Many years ago, I took a 21-day trek with a friend to the Everest Base Camp in Nepal. The expedition party flew out of the capital, Kathmandu, in a 12-seater plane bound for Lukla, commonly known as the gateway to Mount Everest.
22 March 2018
From the Deputy Head of Senior School
I recently finished reading Prof. Jordan Peterson’s new book 12 Rules for Life. Peterson is a controversial academic at the University of Toronto, and a clinical psychologist. The fact that he is so controversial is one of the reasons why I wanted to read his book.
08 March 2018
From the Deputy Head of Senior School
Scholars Assembly - Academic endeavour, achievement and scholarship
From the Head of Senior School
There is nothing lonelier, nor more desperately expectant, than a school without students. Classrooms make no sense without them, playing fields lie stagnant, and teachers aimlessly wander the corridors.
08 February 2018
From the Head of Senior School
In the William Walker Oration entitled ‘The Past, Present and Future of School Improvement and System Reform’, Professor David Hopkins rightly argues that the challenge of school improvement and system reform has great ‘moral depth to it’ for it directly addresses ‘the learning needs of students
07 December 2017