Love and gratitude for the place we live in, can be deeply motivating in enabling our community to address the impacts of climate change. Senior students recently conducted a small survey of staff and high school students about their connection to the Blue Mountains environment and community. We asked: How connected to place are you How does […]
Gardening in times of drought, pandemics or war rejects the chaos and affirms human perseverance. Gardens are psychologically optimistic signs of regenerative spirit…They restore the makers as much as they restore the landscape. Rosemary Morrow Last week, Senior School students enjoyed the funky permaculture tunes of Charlie McGee at the Blue Mountains Permaculture meeting. Rowe […]
“1.5 degrees is on life support. We need to bring it out of critical care into recovery, getting stronger month by month, year by year.” Tamsin Edwards, IPCC climate scientist Psychologist, Per Espen Stoknes identifies ways to lean into living together with climate change in a way that addresses fatigue and that enhances caring for the […]
We were last week awarded the Blue Mountains Binfluencer Award for our Problems that Matter – Katoomba Cafes Send Plastic Packing. This project is still a work in progress, and it was great to get some recognition for it. We have secured funding from NSW government with the support of Penny Sharpe and Trish Doyle, […]
The international anti-racism day is to protest against racism. We use this day to educate ourselves and others and to start conversations about racism. We did a survey of our High School, we asked: “Have you ever seen or experienced racism.” About 95% of the High School said they had either experienced or witnessed racism. […]
Mycologist, Merlin Sheldrake, argues our identity as individuals shapes the way we form relationships with one another, and affects how we share resources and responsibilities. It also justifies exploitation and extraction of the ecosystems that sustain us. As an invitation to break down the fence between self and the ecosystems that sustain us, we playfully […]
We are beyond thrilled to announce that SBS has acquired A Murmuration, the documentary we have produced about our 2017 high-school drama project, Healing Place, Healing Home. Shot and edited by award-winning local writer, director and cinematographer, Michael Joy, our film speaks to the impact we can have when creativity, community and education intersect, celebrates […]
Year 11, transdisciplinary theme: What is it we need to think and do to restore, re-story our world? In tending the woundings of power imbalance, we delve into the deeps of a Dionysian story*, of a god who was girl-faced, strangely dressed, who had the power of tree and the ambiguity to scramble any either/or, […]
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