Principal's news

One of our strategic goals is to encourage students to see themselves as global citizens who can contribute to a better world. In alignment with this I was delighted to be selected to participate in the Australia–Pacific BRIDGE School Partnerships Program professional learning, run through the Asia Education Foundation at the University of Melbourne.

I am involved in six workshops between July and September completing training on:

• Intercultural understanding
• Global competencies
• Digital technologies
• Innovative pedagogical practices
• Design thinking
• Global collaboration
• School partnership building.

The BRIDGE Program models the idea that intercultural understanding can thrive even when we are not in the same physical space. We are connecting as a group online via virtual meetings and WhatsApp conversations. Bridge aims to establish authentic people-to-people connections through school communities’ building educator capacity in a variety of areas (ICT, design thinking, pedagogical exchanges) and in the support of student learning outcomes.

The program is designed to develop global citizens and students who have deeper intercultural understanding, real-life digital capacity and new knowledge of Asia and Australia.

Through the partnership, I am working with an educator in a Pacific nation. The opportunity to spend time in an education system other than my own provides a unique professional learning opportunity to learn with and from others. This includes understanding each other’s context in terms of curriculum, school structure and management, pedagogical practice and professional learning

Katrina Brennan

Principal