Discovering the Heroes

As a Round Square (RS) School, MLC School was fortunate to host a Round Square Heroes of Discovery workshop last Thursday 20 March.

Teachers from 9 schools, from Tasmania to Melbourne to Tweed Heads and the Sydney region came together to hear about and experience time getting to know the 12 Heroes of Discovery. This workshop was another step in our journey of including the discoveries, or character attributes, within the Junior School, which began two years ago with a visit to Oxford.

The participants got to play with the RS Heroes of Discovery and share them with each other. It was a day of cutting, pasting and making whilst chatting and getting to know people from other Round Square schools.

A few schools, including us, who have been embedding these heroes in their school presented what they have been doing. We have developed a leadership program, starting in Year 4 and continuing in Year 5, which supports our Year 5 leaders to develop skills necessary for their leadership – self awareness, courage, responsibility, communication, teamwork and problem solving. We are starting to look at how else learning about the Discoveries can support our girls’ development and learning.

It was a fantastic day and I know the MLC School staff who attended benefited and more deeply understand what the Round Square international community of schools is all about.

Kurt Hahn, the founder of Round Square said:

“There is more in us than we know.

If we can be made to see it perhaps for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.”

So as the MLC School girl dares to be more, we hope she will see in herself more than she knows and strive to achieve it.

– Joanne Sharpe
Head of Junior School – Wellbeing

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