Author: Community Relations
Nov 22 Choosing a School
My Daring Wesley Girls
The vibrant, welcoming, co-educational Junior and Middle School at Wesley has laid a wonderful foundation for my girls’ future and for that I am very thankful!
Nov 1 School News
Wesley’s new Languages Centre
The new Languages Centre at Wesley College was officially opened on Monday 30 October 2017, with special guest speaker Dr Sascha Schmeling, Head of Teacher Programmes and Education Research at CERN in Geneva.
Oct 25 Choosing a School
Teacher learning: What’s in it for students?
By valuing the collaboration and learning of our staff, as well as our students, we nurture a learning community in which students and staff are empowered to pursue excellence and reach their individual potential.
Oct 18 Parenting Tips & Advice
Seven tips for achieving academic success
At Wesley we measure academic success using traditional metrics (grades, tests) as well as monitoring students’ Learning Habits which are the skills and dispositions increasingly recognised as important for students to thrive into their futures (for example motivation, organisation and collaboration to name a few).
Aug 30 Opinion
The pursuit of global competence
Wesley finds itself in a unique position. We are a school actively exploring the notion of ‘global competence’ and intentional capabilities. Furthermore, we are a school well advanced in terms of its experience and understanding of the many challenges presented when embedding, communicating, measuring and building common language of capabilities.
Aug 23 Parenting Tips & Advice
Differentiation: tailoring teaching to learners
Differentiated instruction is not a new trend. It is based on best practices in education. It puts students at the centre of teaching and learning and it lets their learning needs direct instructional planning.
Aug 2 Choosing a School
Spotlight On: Boarding at Wesley
At Wesley, we offer our boarders (Years 7 to 12) a vibrant, nurturing, family-style environment. We cater for each boy’s well-being, encourage growth and uniqueness, and support them to become happy, responsible individuals.
Jul 26 School News
The place of digital learning
Technologies have the potential to enhance learning and empower students, but most scholars agree that it is pedagogy and a deep understanding of how students learn that should drive the use of technologies, rather than technologies driving the way teaching and learning happens, or as an end in themselves.
Jun 21 School News
What the OWCA means to us
Guest Blogger, Darcy Roden, College Captain The Old Wesley Collegian’s Association (OWCA) is a familiar name to the wider Wesley community, and in just under six months’ time myself and the rest of my cohort will join this illustrious organisation which will continue to link us to Wesley College for the rest of our lives.…