Daisy Turnbull, Director of Co-Education

This week Year 9 were hosted by Ascham for a Ceroc dance day. They started the day with Nathan from Colourbeat, and then being joined by the Ascham students to work in pairs and small groups to come up with creative choreography. A favourite of the day was one choreography that involved “bowling” over other students to ‘Uptown Funk’. They were able to spend time with the Ascham students both socially and while engaged in learning. Students learned Ceroc dancing, which gave them an opportunity to learn in pairs and while I don’t think they ar ethe dance moves Dua Lipa had envisioned for “Dance The Night”, it was definitely enjoyable to see the students having fun.

The Ceroc Dance Day was a really fantastic opportunity for our Year 9s to spend time learning in a coeducational environment and I hope they made friendships and can test out their new dance skills in the holidays.

I have also been holding coeducational ‘mythbusting’ sessions with Years 7 & 8 to discuss topics such as the House structure, what sports we will do, student leadership and the new uniform. It has been wonderful getting to know the students and answer their questions. So much of culture change is about conversations, and there have been wonderful conversations across the campus.

For 2024 we will be introducing a ‘long orientation’ for our Year 7 2026 cohort so they can engage in coeducational activities.

Finally the study centre will be running in term 1 and if you are interested in your child attending for homework help and supervision, please click this link here.

Daisy Turnbull
Director of Co-Education