St. Andrew’s Turi: How Photos funded our school Nutrition Project
Priscilla Jean-Louis at St. Andrew’s Turi explains how their student led photography business helps finance the schools nutrition project.
The Round Square Discovery Framework in Education Outdoors
The Round Square Discovery Framework has provided the impetus and language to transform Scotch Oakburn College’s Education Outdoors program into one which deepens students’ learning and appreciation of character skills. Stuart Walls discusses how the Round Square Discovery Framework is used to explore, record and develop Year 6 students’ capabilities in the areas of Teamwork, […]
Land & Water: An Outdoor Education Programme at Scotch College
The Outdoor Education programme at Scotch College provides inspiration to colleagues looking to hone their own activity programmes. David Kyle, Director of Community and Service and Round Square Representative, shares the thinking behind the programme’s development, provides examples of how activities are matched to differing age groups and offers advice on how to manage risk […]
Upcycling at Roedean
Students at Roedean have found a way to combine their social and environmental ambitions through a series of upcycling initiatives.
Rockport: Organising a Pre-Conference Tour
Organising a pre-conference tour in 2016 allowed new Round Square member, Rockport, the opportunity to raise its profile in the network, strengthen global relationships and gain an insight into the conference management process. Rep, Dawn Toland, shares her advice on how to plan a pre-conference tour and the learnings that have prepared her for the […]
Penryn College: Transformation & Diversity Workshops
Penryn College Transformation & Diversity Workshops create a safe environment for these difficult questions to be identified, debated and resolved. Having spent the last few years refining their model, Helen Ashley shares the school’s learnings on how to run effective scholar transformation and diversity workshops.
Penryn College: Using the Discovery Framework in Tutor Time
Rep, Sam Hardie, shares her school’s approach to helping students understand, contextualise and personalise the Discovery Framework terminology. Through the provision of template tutor time plans, she arms teachers with resources to explain the Discoveries and their importance, whilst recognising their relevance to the IDEALS, school code, and Christian beliefs. Author and position: Sam Hardie, […]
Markham College: Building Houses and Repairing Communities
Students and teachers of Markham College in Peru outline the key elements of their ten-year house building service programme, which has provided staff and students with vital skills to support community redevelopment and come to the aid of those same communities in times of crisis.
Lakefield College’s Female Leadership Summit
Peter O’Grady, Director of Student Leadership and teacher of Outdoor Education at Canadian school, Lakefield College School, shares his school’s approach to organising a female leadership summit to inspire female students to challenge themselves in their life and career choices after school. Author and position: Peter O’Grady, Director of Leadership School: Lakefield College is nestled alongside a lake in Ontario in an area described […]
King’s Academy’s ‘Jordan Model Parliament’
The ‘Jordan Model Parliament’ is a mock parliamentary conference with participation from schools nationwide. The annual event offers students the opportunity to research and debate national and global issues.