Does Rest Really Make Us More Productive? There are several kinds of rest and we need all of them at different times: 1. Physical rest: Getting enough sleep at night, and the occasional nap rests our bodies and helps our brain to move what we learn during the day...
As the leaves change from summer’s lime and olive greens, to autumn’s crimson and amber leaves that fall in crunchy piles on the grass, we feel a change in the air. Mornings and evenings are cooler and the days are getting shorter. The dew on the grass is heavier and...
High school students know the struggle of time management all too well. Throughout primary school, we managed our home readers, maths worksheets and the occasional poster or diorama without thinking about it. All of a sudden, we reached year 7 and we’re expected to...
Since the iPhone brought the internet out of cyber cafes and into our pockets, our worlds have grown smaller. We might think that increased access to Google means that we’ve become more curious, but curiosity is actually more about the questions we ask than the...
As we draw nearer to the start of a new school year, it’s worth taking time to think about how our reflections from last year can be turned into actions. Last year, students developed greater resilience through lockdown, learning from home, dealing with the emotional...
2020 was a year that changed much of the way we do things. In some cases, the changes have been irritating and time-consuming, such as the fact we can no longer dine in at a restaurant without ‘checking in’ for contact tracing, or that long-awaited international...
