18 MAY 2018
TERM 2 • 18 MAY 2018 • VOLUME 300
18 MAY TO 1 JUNE 2018
From the Principal Mrs Nicola Taylor
This week the NSW Government has launched a comprehensive review of the K-12 curriculum being taught in all Government, Catholic and Independent schools in our state. This is the most extensive curriculum review since 1989, though several individual subject areas have been reviewed more recently, especially K-10 English, Mathematics, Geography, History, Science and Technology, leading to the introduction of the Australian Curriculum. Having worked in education for over 30 years, a professional interest has been in Curriculum design and development. I inherited this interest from my mother who was a Government School Principal and who has given me her complete set of syllabus documents from the 1970s when a structured timetable and set curriculum was in place in all Government Schools across the state. My own pre-service teacher education was during a period when having disbanded centralised curriculum, each school was able to develop its own curriculum within the context of the needs and interests of its community, according to a framework of curriculum guidelines. This approach was soon shown to be inefficient as whilst some schools were resourced and able to develop detailed curriculum documents, many schools were not. continues next page... continued on Page 2...
Boarding Schools' Expo - Dubbo 18/5 - 19/5/18 Kindy/Year 1 Excursion to Thalgarrah 18/5/18 Year 8 Mathematics Day 18/5/18 IGSSA Cross Country 18/5/18 Eisteddfod Strings and Chamber Music 20/5/18 Boarders' Chapel 21/5/18 Volunteer Students to Torch Bearers Legacy Event 21/5/18 Years 5 and 6 Maths Olympiad 23/5/18 Chamber Music - Armidale Eisteddfod 24/5/18 PSSA Cross Country 25/5/18 Eisteddfod New England Championship 25/5/18 Years 11 and 12 Ancient History HSC Seminar 25/5/18 String Eisteddfod 27/5/18 Boarders' Chapel 28/5/18 Years 2 to 11 ICAS Science 29/5/18 AMEB Speech & Drama Eisteddfod 29/5 - 1/6/18 PLCA to Columba - Student Exchange 31/5/18 Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) 1/6 - 3/6/18 North West Equestrian Expo Coonabarabran 1/6 - 5/6/18 PLCA at Columba - Student Exchange 1/6 - 12/6/18