In 2023, Hume Anglican Grammar launched our Vision for Teaching and Learning. Five guiding principles, created with our community, to guide our work with students of all ages.
Each term, we have focused on one of these ‘pillars’ and explored what it means in practice. In Term 3, 2024 we look at the final pillar ‘Loving Lifelong Learning: We are eager to learn’ knowing that the future belongs to those who never stop learning’.
In the opening assembly of the term, our Secondary students reflected with Mr Butterfield, Director of Teaching and Learning, about two reasons why we urge each student to love lifelong learning.
The first was necessity. When we developed the Vision for Teaching and Learning, we were driven by the phrase ‘success in a changing world’. Our students are growing up in an age of exponential change. The lives of the young people in our care will be incredibly exciting. In assembly the students heard “it is slightly mindboggling to think about, but many of you sitting in this room will do jobs we do not yet have names for, solving problems that currently look unsolvable, using tools that do not yet exist”. To thrive in these exciting and somewhat scary times, we will need to be lifelong learners.
The second was joy. Learning is inherently valuable and joyful. The more we understand something, the more we notice and appreciate its beauty. Many of us have special interests or passions that others dismiss as boring because they lack our depth of understanding. Whether our passions lie in the arts, sport, literature, music, nature or travel, as our knowledge and understanding grows, so does our joy and wonder.
This term, we will be challenging students to embrace being a lifelong learner. Many of our staff have completed or are in further postgraduate study, others are picking up new skills and all are honing their professional expertise. We are enjoying sharing with students elements of our personal journey as lifelong learners and we encourage parents to do the same. A powerful thing to role model for each young person in our care is our commitment to continuing to try new things, reflect and to find joy in learning.
Click here to learn more about Loving Lifelong Learning.