Category: Updates from Rose Bay Secondary College

On Sunday we held another successful fundraiser for our school with many Music Ensemble Program students and parents volunteering at the City to Surf.

On Friday May 31 the Prefects and Captains of Rose Bay Secondary College hosted an afternoon tea for the Prefects and Captains of Randwick Boys and Girls, Sydney Boys and Girls, Emmanuel, Cranbrook, Scots, Kambala and SCEGGS.

RBSC students Maya, Nicola and Mia were preparing the wax for the Environment committee so that younger students can create their own beeswax wraps as a sustainable and effective food wrap for lunchboxes.

Rose Bay Secondary College Student Representative Council hosted a whole school event to raise awareness about World Environment Day. This year’s theme for World Environment Day was Air Pollution but as we are located on the coast we decided to take a Plastic Use and Coastal Management Focus for our own school event.

Please vote for the Rose Bay Secondary College project grant worth $139,240. Our project: Creating shared outdoor spaces for learning and recreation

Congratulations to Sarah, who is the Sydney South Schools Regional Junior Surfing Champion for 2019!

After attending the Alexandria Park Community School NAIDOC celebrations at the end of last term, Ms Jansen and Ms Wilson worked together with our ATSI students to plan some of our own NAIODOC Week Celebrations.

Congratulations to the RBSC MEP Jazz Ensemble who performed at the Sydney Eisteddfod and received an amazing 96% and Second Place.

We are celebrating our students and their powerful voices this Education Week Monday 5 August to Friday 9 August. Every year Education Week celebrates the achievements of public schools, our students and the value of public education.

This year, the theme is Every student, every voice. 

Join us for #EdWeek19 as we celebrate our students and their power to shape the world.

Video – #EdWeek19 –  Every student, every voice

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It’s not too late to become a Game Changer with applications for the Education Week challenge due by 7 June.

The Game Changer Challenge brings 16 teams from public schools across NSW  – eight from primary and eight from secondary – to Sydney during Education Week in August for a three-day, intensive design-thinking workshop.

The Game Changer workshops, which start on Tuesday 6 August, includes teacher training in the use of design thinking as a teaching methodology and its application for school planning.

It also includes a team competition where schools will work under the guidance of experts from industry and academia to develop a solution to this year’s critical question: How might we humanise technology?

Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott has encouraged students and teachers to get behind the event as it highlights the critical thinking students will need to develop to succeed in the future.

“The Game Changer Challenge is an exciting initiative that helps educate and inform our students and teachers on how to integrate the problem-solving methodology of design thinking into the classroom,” Mr Scott says.

“It embraces the 21^st century skills our students will need to thrive in a globalised world such as collaboration, creative thinking and communication.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for our students at all levels to be involved in discussing and addressing a real-world issue that will affect their future lives. I encourage every school to get involved.”

The challenge is designed to make strong learning and teaching connections to the NSW syllabus specifically in the area of developing general capabilities such as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, communication and problem-solving.

The challenge also provides teachers with an opportunity to gain exposure to the design thinking process and includes teacher resources to introduce this creative problem-solving methodology into the classroom.

Finalists will be selected based on a 60-second video that showcases your team’s vision around the question of humanising technology.

For more information email edweek@det.nsw.edu.au or visit the Game Changer Challenge page.