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Arcadia Public School

ARCADIA PUBLIC SCHOOL’s most recent Market Day, held on Saturday 4th May, was recognised by the National Trust as an Australian Heritage Festival event! Arcadia’s Heritage Market Day commemorated Arcadia Public School’s 125th Anniversary, with current and past students, parents and teachers all eagerly awaiting and participating in the opening of the Arcadia Public School […]

40 YEARS OF GOD’S GOODNESS

PACIFIC HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is in celebration mode as it looks back on 40 years of providing education and character development to many thousands of local students. The school began with eight students and one teacher in 1979 in a rented room at Pennant Hills and made the move to Dural in 1986. What started […]

GALSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

STUDENTS AND TEACHERS are thoroughly enjoying their ScopeIT sessions. Each class is participating in a 40 minute lesson every week throughout this term. During these lessons, students are instructed by a team of ‘Scopers’ who are fully trained and professional instructors. The teachers and students have access to the latest hardware, software and lesson plans. […]

A Journey Through the Alphabet at Lorien Novalis School in Dural

HOLISTIC LEARNING AT LORIEN NOVALIS SCHOOL is the foundation to imagination, creativity and academia, and is based on the developmental stages of the child. Hands-on and making it ‘real’ are the fundamentals of Steiner education for the early learner. Literacy, encompassing all its components – listening, speaking, writing and reading – is a keynote. In […]

HILLS GRAMMARS NEWS

Another Festival of Fun at Hills Grammar Hills Grammar didn’t miss a beat with their latest festival that celebrated fun, wellbeing and community. The School enjoyed a number of events, all aimed at providing methods to aide in physical and mental health. They opened the event to the greater community with a campus tour with […]

SMOOTHING OUT THE BUMPS

Transitioning from primary school to high school is a dramatic time of change for most students which is why Middle School is so important. Mr Gavin Neale is the Head of Middle School at Pacific Hills Christian School, at Dural, and said the goal of Middle School is to make this time as smooth as […]

Northholm Student Helping Overseas

Hi, my name is Lauren Ivory and I am in Year 11 at Northholm Grammar School. During the last school holidays, I was very blessed to have the opportunity to spend 10 days in India with the charity ‘Project Help India’. During my time in India we travelled to Bijnor, Delhi and Kotdwara. In the […]

GALSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

To commemorate Anzac Day our students in the last week of term contributed to the making of beautiful wreaths. Led by our School Captains and Vice Captains Milla, Rhys, Amber and Braeden a very moving ANZAC service and address by Lieutenant Colonel Greg Colton DSM was then held in the school hall. Also held at […]

Galston High School – Authors teach students the value of a good book

Galston High School student Sarah Goodall with author Ambelin Kwaymullina

Students from Galston High School had the chance to chat with authors behind the scenes at the Sydney Writers Festival in Parramatta. On Thursday 1 May, four students interviewed New York Times bestselling authors Dhonielle Clayton and Neal Shusterman as well as home-grown talent Ambelin Kwaymullina and Will Kostakis. Talking to Year 9 student Sarah […]

Scientifically Speaking

It’s always a great pleasure to see past students of Hills Grammar returning to the School. Recently we welcomed back scientist Stuart Kumar-Terry, class of 2007, who was excited to have an open conversation with the next generation of budding scientists. The author of The Science That Changed the World, answered questions from our Junior […]