As parents and educators, we all want our children to succeed in life. We want them to be happy, healthy, and fulfilled, and to reach their full potential. But to do that, they need to have a strong foundation of knowledge, skills and curiosity. In this article...
A rendition of You Are My Sunshine had 30 NBCS students singing along with residents of Terrey Hills Nursing Home recently. It was part of the program dubbed ‘Operation Joy’, a longstanding initiative that fosters connections between NBCS Primary students and our...
A friend of mine is preparing a university graduation address. He has asked a number of us how we would answer the question, “What does success mean to you?” I responded with the following ideas that may not directly answer the question but head in its general...
Year 11 student Josh Lee and Year 7 student Nathan Cole received special recognition at the NSW CIS (Combined Independent Schools) sports association awards dinner recently for their excellence in representative sport at the highest level in 2023. Josh is an...
There are some people who, on principle, don’t like testing in schools. They think, somehow, that testing is the enemy of learning. And while it is true that plenty of learning takes place without testing, if we think of test results as evidence of learning, then we...