Wavell SHS

🥳It's a wrap on the 2023 school year!🥳 Wishing our school community a safe and enjoyable holiday. Thank you to all of our wonderful staff and students for your commitment to our Wavell learning community over the past year. We look forward to welcoming everyone back in 2024!

We are delighted to announce that @_LizFoster, our Executive Principal, has been honoured once again by The Educator's Best Educators Hot List for 2023. This prestigious list highlights the most influential and impactful individuals within Australia's education sector.

Please join with us in congratulating Executive Principal @_LizFoster who last night was awarded the prestigious Dr John Dwyer Excellent Leadership in Teaching and Learning Award as part of the 2023 @TheQCT TEACHX Awards.

Insightful conversation with @C21Educator &NormHunter in understanding our profession. How might we have a collective understanding of the profession of teaching?’Statement of Commitment to the Profession of Teaching’ how do people see themselves in this document? #ACELNC23

Our Wavell team representing at the @acelaustralia National Conference this week. A week of learning, opportunity and growth! #ACELNC23 #WeAreWavell #EsseQuamVideri

Looking forward to Day 1 at #ACELNC23 with the opportunity for shared discourse of evidence based practice with tangible learnings of educational leadership regardless of formal role or position. A privilege for @AcelQueensland to host the @acelaustralia community in Brisbane.

Terrific beginning to Day 2 of #ACELNC23 learning with year 12 student Charlotte Armon in asking the question “how we fuel the curiosity and determination of young people ?”

…”don’t mistake busy for effective” . thank you @kristendouglas1 for time spent with our @acelaustralia community this morning.

At last month's ACEL QLD 2023 Awards Ceremony, we were honoured to see Executive Principal Liz Foster awarded the QLD Fellowship. We congratulate Liz on this award & for her continued resolve enabling our community to live our vision of 'Empowering Leaners. Empowering Futures.'.

We congratulate Brett Dascombe on being announced as a recipient of the 2023 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Fellows Awards this week. Brett was one of 22 inspiring teachers to have been recognised for their dedication to creating positive change in their school communities.

Next month Executive Principal @_LizFoster will speak at The Future Of Education Summit. Liz will share her experience of creating learning environments that challenge conventional practice, with collective decision-making at the core. For details visit: bit.ly/44Ihy83

Congratulations to Executive Principal, @_LizFoster, who has been named as one of @TheEducatorAU 2023 Most Influential Educators. At Wavell, Liz continues to challenge our community to think beyond the normal paradigms of teaching and leadership. #Trailblazer #Education #Leader

This week we were notified that our Executive Principal, Liz Foster been awarded the ACEL QLD Fellowship Award for 2023 by the Australian Council for Educational Leaders QLD. We look forward to celebrating this recognition at the State Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 22nd August.

who are you? question asked by #nathanieltamwoy @Griffith_Uni #creatingfuturessummit. importance of understanding self and each other with @wavellshs student Kaia contributing to the conversation at this summit.

a canvas with story to be captured by @suepillans as we begin the day considering transforming indigenous education in practice @Griffith_Uni #creatingfuturessummit. 👉 hearing from students from across Qld schools and @WavellSHS

Congrats to Yr11 student, Erin who has been selected to attend the QLD Minerals & Energy Academy Oresome Minds camp in Mt Isa during the holidays. Erin, who studies Earth & Enviro Science + Biology, will visit Glencore site alongside a small group of students from across QLD.

a day of learning ahead with our @WavellSHS leadership team, asking ourselves the ? how we can create an environment that brings out the best in us. Thank you #annabyrne for your expertise. ..everyone is a leader.

Last week our Year 10 Debating team had a successful win against Padua College. In this round of the Queensland Debating Union - QDU competition our students were tasked with the negative perspective of the following topic: We regret true crime media. Well done Team Wavell!

Over the weekend we saw 2022 graduate and Player of the Year, Karl Oloapu make his NRL debut for the Canterbury Bulldogs. Shoutout to Dragon's Michael Molo (Wavell Warrior #876 graduating 2014) for reaching out to Karl to congratulate him on his debut following the Bulldogs win.

Today we welcomed Maddie & David from @EduChangemakers to work with our Learning Focus Group as we re-imagine the Wavell learning experience. A day of rich conversation, big ideas & a continued resolve to ensure Wavell graduates are ready to take on the ever-changing world.