Year 11 has been blown away by the rallying of our whole school community behind our fundraising push for Kids Help Cafés Kick Plastic! Our heartfelt thanks to Erica and the teachers and parents who have picked up the baton and created 4 highly successful initiatives: Holey Moley Icey Poley, Happy Snaps School Photo, the […]
We have now collected the 34 teen portraits that hung in the inaugural SEEN: Affirming Identity & Breaking Down Stereotypes exhibition at Gallery ONE88. Designed in response to our 2024 Problems That Matter focus on issues that affect young people, SEEN sought to provide Blue Mountains teens with an opportunity for expression, connection, and to […]
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/a-murmuration/2347700803784 Created in 2023 by local film maker, Michael Joy, A Murmuration tells the inspiring story of Healing Home, Healing Place – a collaborative project that took place in the home of Dharug elder, Uncle Colin Locke – and the founding of Buran Nalgarra, Kindlehill’s Senior School program. Selected for screening on SBS in NAIDOC […]
Following a Zoom meeting with a Senior Project Officer at the NSW Environmental Protection Authority last week, our year 10 students spent Wednesday morning working through the EPAs Bin Trim Waste Assessment with the 9 cafés participating in our Katoomba Cafés Send Plastic Packing campaign. The EPA is highly supportive of the project and this assessment […]
This play was the wild card among a handful of scripts I shared with Year 8-9 in Term 2. Their first reading was ridiculously funny and marked the beginning of quite a journey…not dissimilar to trying to find the Wizard without the yellow brick road! Like Dorothy, we have picked up a few characters along […]
The Blue Mountains City Council website states that our LGA is home to a community of nearly 80,000 people living in 27 towns and villages located over 100 km of mountainous terrain. According to Dairy Australia, Australia’s per capita consumption of drinking milk is currently estimated at an average of 97 litres per year. So, […]
On Tuesday March 28, we launched the new Kindlehill Senior High School program, Buran Nalgarra – Strength & Learning Through Togetherness, at Mt Vic Flicks. The event was also the premiere screening of Michael Joy’s documentary, A Murmuration, and was a night of song, big ideas, and connection. Guests were greeted by musical performances from […]
As our students come to the end of their Primary School journey, we create safe opportunities for them to experience High School style learning. I have worked with several class 5-6 classes over the years and it’s a great way to provide them with a taste of working with different teachers and new processes. Erica’s class […]
Working across two terms, we began this unit by considering strength and power both separately and in relation to each other, and as personal and political concepts; we discussed the forms of each that we respect and admire, and those we resent or disparage. We compared the words and voices of three young powerhouses: Amanda […]
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