Thought Leadership

Making It Right The dishwasher has become a battlefield. Not with helmets or sandbags – but with a plate left on the bench, a parent who has asked three times, and a child who has apparently developed sudden, urgent reasons to be elsewhere. “Why can’t you just do the one thing I ask?” asks the exhausted parent. “I will!” comes the reply. And there it is: one of those tiny moments that becomes bigger than it deserves to be. In the parent’s mind, a forgotten plate becomes a question of…

You've pulled up the government’s MySchool portal, scrolled through ATAR averages, and entered the names of high schools with consistently good scores located within a reasonable distance from home onto your spreadsheet. It feels like a solid start – numbers don’t lie! But they also don’t tell the whole story, especially when it comes to academic scores, student populations, and ranking systems such as NAPLAN and ATAR. Not only are there questions about who sat the test and who didn't – there's…

By Clinton Jackson, Senior School Coordinator Years 11 and 12 can be a busy and stressful time as students prepare for assessments and, ultimately, transfer into post-secondary training or employment. It’s tempting to think of these years as being mostly about that pressure, with some social fun along the way. At BAC, we see them as being about far more. The Queensland Adventist Education Framework talks about “flourishing students” and “equipping [them] for a life of eternal purpose.” As…

Watch any toddler for an hour: they crouch down to examine an ant in the grass, they wobble along on uneven ground, they tug on your hand and pull you into their game, complete concentration on their faces as they pour water from one container to another. It looks like simple play, but it’s more than that. It’s the brain busy laying down new neural pathways. Under the surface, the brain is in building mode. As babies and very young children see, hear, touch, smell, taste, move, and interact,…