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We’re proud to say our students have achieved our best School Leaving Certificate exam results ever.

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We sometimes describe our school as being on the edge of the city, but it’s been more edge than city of late. A (non-venomous) rat snake made an appearance recently (password: janauddhar)… … and then a monkey dropped by last week. Perhaps they want to enrol too?

One of my first conclusions from observing government teachers in action was: Teachers should talk less, and students should talk more, preferably to each other. Most teaching in government (and private) schools is still dominated by the teacher, standing at the front lecturing, while the students sit passively, doing nothing. This term we’re trying to … Continue reading Teacher Active – Students Active (video)

*Update: it’s now 73 new students. In many government schools, the teachers do not know the names of their students. It’s a sad reflection of the attitude of some government teachers towards education. We’ve made quite an effort to repeatedly stress the importance of learning students names. So now that we’ve enrolled 66 new students, … Continue reading 66* new students means 66 new names

It’s a bet I was happy to lose. A few months ago, I made a wager with our school principal that following our enrolment campaign, we would enrol 40 new students this academic year. He said we’d reach 60. Well, we’ve now reached 73 new students, bucking the national trend, and our own record, which … Continue reading 73 new students!