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A checklist to look after your child’s digital health and safety
Concern about the online safety of young people has heightened during #stayathome. Here’s a checklist to help keep them safe, from Ms Michelle Dennis, Head of Digital Learning and Innovation, at Strathcona Girls Grammar as seen on The Parent Website
Leaving the bubble: Helping anxious kids prepare for a return to the classroom
Schools returning to the classroom has been a hot button topic of the coronavirus journey, prompting a debate among politicians, medical experts, education leaders, teachers and parents. Students are at the heart of the matter, and reintegration will pose far greater challenges for some than others.
Learning to write is off with the fairies
Strathcona Girls’ Grammar prep teacher Kate Morgan has gone above and beyond in ensuring her 17 prep students stay inspired to write while away from school by creating a special fairy character as motivation.
Need a vision for new world? No drama
THE footlights may have dimmed temporarily on school productions but they’re rising in another format.
Generations, Young People and the Future of Work
Join us as Associate Professor Hernan Cuervo analyses what kind of future young people can expect. Drawing on two-decades of research he will also explore myths and facts about the new employment landscape.
Reflection
Principal Mrs Marise McConaghy blogs about narcissism and how just maybe COVID-19 pandemic has seen its demise. We are more connected and considerate of others. “The pretence that we have it ‘all under control’, are ever-polished, perfect, ‘have got it’ and ‘all over it’ is something, which we cannot even try for at the moment and we are accepting that in ourselves and each other.”
How to keep students engaged – from a distance
The Educator talks to Miss Dennis about the biggest kinks she experienced in this monumental shift and how she and her team have managed to iron each of them out.
How Melbourne’s private schools are adapting to remote learning
The coronavirus crisis has thrown a real spanner in the works for schools, with students forced to dramatically change the way they learn. But some of Melbourne’s top private schools say they’ve found unique ways to help students stay on track.
There are some silver linings in the pivot to remote learning
…Parents, students and educators across the country are bracing themselves for a period of immense uncertainty and challenge.
On the Radio
As we start Term 2 with home learning, there is much discussion about VCE. Our Head of VCE and Humanities, Mr Scott Sweeney chats on ABC Radio and 3AW.
Sisterhood
So far, it is fair to say that 2020 hasn’t exactly shaped up how we thought it would – COVID-19 has been a bigger disruption in our lives than any of us could have imagined.
Home School Help
The Herald Sun journalist, Ashley Argoon, interviews our student and staff to discover how online learning is going.
- All
- Featured
- In The Media
- News
- Strathy Stories
A checklist to look after your child’s digital health and safety
Concern about the online safety of young people has heightened during #stayathome. Here’s a checklist to help keep them safe, from Ms Michelle Dennis, Head of Digital Learning and Innovation, at Strathcona Girls Grammar as seen on The Parent Website
Leaving the bubble: Helping anxious kids prepare for a return to the classroom
Schools returning to the classroom has been a hot button topic of the coronavirus journey, prompting a debate among politicians, medical experts, education leaders, teachers and parents. Students are at the heart of the matter, and reintegration will pose far greater challenges for some than others.
Learning to write is off with the fairies
Strathcona Girls’ Grammar prep teacher Kate Morgan has gone above and beyond in ensuring her 17 prep students stay inspired to write while away from school by creating a special fairy character as motivation.
Need a vision for new world? No drama
THE footlights may have dimmed temporarily on school productions but they’re rising in another format.
Generations, Young People and the Future of Work
Join us as Associate Professor Hernan Cuervo analyses what kind of future young people can expect. Drawing on two-decades of research he will also explore myths and facts about the new employment landscape.
Reflection
Principal Mrs Marise McConaghy blogs about narcissism and how just maybe COVID-19 pandemic has seen its demise. We are more connected and considerate of others. “The pretence that we have it ‘all under control’, are ever-polished, perfect, ‘have got it’ and ‘all over it’ is something, which we cannot even try for at the moment and we are accepting that in ourselves and each other.”
How to keep students engaged – from a distance
The Educator talks to Miss Dennis about the biggest kinks she experienced in this monumental shift and how she and her team have managed to iron each of them out.
How Melbourne’s private schools are adapting to remote learning
The coronavirus crisis has thrown a real spanner in the works for schools, with students forced to dramatically change the way they learn. But some of Melbourne’s top private schools say they’ve found unique ways to help students stay on track.
There are some silver linings in the pivot to remote learning
…Parents, students and educators across the country are bracing themselves for a period of immense uncertainty and challenge.
On the Radio
As we start Term 2 with home learning, there is much discussion about VCE. Our Head of VCE and Humanities, Mr Scott Sweeney chats on ABC Radio and 3AW.
Sisterhood
So far, it is fair to say that 2020 hasn’t exactly shaped up how we thought it would – COVID-19 has been a bigger disruption in our lives than any of us could have imagined.
Home School Help
The Herald Sun journalist, Ashley Argoon, interviews our student and staff to discover how online learning is going.
