In Focus
Maintaining Your Mental Health
There are 5 facets to a healthy mental health lifestyle according to Bryan Jeffrey (2008). Sleep well Eat healthy food Get exercise Fresh air Sunlight All of these facets can appear to be easy, but in reality often we have to make effort to achieve these things. Sleep Sleep can be an ongoing problem, especially … Continued
The Temptation of Notifications…
You feel a slight vibration in your pocket. You hear a tiny ping. A little pop-up emerges on your screen… all of these tantalizing you to stop what you are doing, and check out the notification one of your devices has sent you. Is it a message? An email? A like? A comment? Something urgent? … Continued
Talking About Online Respect
One of the most challenging parenting spheres to navigate can be that of the online world. With young people engaging sometimes constantly with their peers, as well as others they don’t know – and well on platforms we may not be familiar with, it is natural that this is a space that causes some anxiety … Continued
HPV Update
How will we keep the HPV squad engaged? That was the question Mr Lardner asked us at the start of our Online Learning period. As the HPV Captains, we started brainstorming ideas and then put them into practice. To overcome the state of isolation and maintain our fitness, the Human Powered Vehicle team, along with … Continued
Battye House Report
It is wonderful to see the boys of Battye House back on campus at Berwick Grammar School. The boys have been reconnecting in person during their classes and outside in the yard with many conversations being had about the positives and negatives of remote learning vs face-face learning. During our time in remote learning we … Continued
Back to BGS!
The sun came out for the first day back on campus at Berwick Grammar School and it was heartening to see how pleased all the boys and the teachers were to be back together. After nearly two months of learning remotely – and very successfully – we celebrated the simple joy of spending time with … Continued
BGS Backyard Skills Challenge
Whilst our PE staff at BGS couldn’t physically be present with their students during the remote learning period, it didn’t stop them from trying to demonstrate their own skills as part of the BGS Backyard Skills Challenge. Each Monday lunchtime a new set of videos would be uploaded where PE staff set a range of … Continued
Feel Good Friday
Many of the lessons we have learnt as we spent this period of time working and learning from home have been related to wellbeing – the power of connection and the other facets of our Wellbeing Hive – a model that also promotes exercise, creativity, curiosity, mindfulness and reading amongst other things. So on Friday … Continued
National Career Education Week 18-22 May
National Career Development week aims to raise awareness of the importance of career education. We decided to go virtual with our events to engage students in conversation about specific careers, as well as to highlight the value of networking and how to best place yourself as leaders of the future. We also engaged with tertiary … Continued
Matthew Merrilees Takes to the Sky!
During our period of learning remotely, Year 11 student Matthew Merrilees made excellent use of his extra time, completing his flight testing to ensure he received his Recreational Pilots license! Matthew is an extremely hard worker in all fields of endeavour – notably his studies as well as his many sporting accolades. He showed the … Continued
Introducing the Morrisby Profile
We are very excited to have delivered the Morrisby profile to all of our Year 10 students for the first time in 2020. Morrisby Online is a comprehensive career profiling system that provides an objective measure of a number of aptitudes, as well as describing the students interests and personality. This information is blended to … Continued
Online Chess Club
Due to the unfortunate and unpredictable state of the world at the moment, our regular Chess Club has had to postpone operations until things calm down. However, this has not stopped our Intermediate Enrichment Captain, Jeremy Mohanraj, from organising and facilitating an Online Chess Competition aimed at providing an opportunity for students from both senior … Continued
