{"id":12479,"date":"2023-05-29T13:52:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khpost.test.pallasmarketing.com\/?p=12479"},"modified":"2023-05-29T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:52:30","slug":"buran-nalgarra-school-launch-of-the-senior-school-program-at-kindlehill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khpost.test.pallasmarketing.com\/?p=12479","title":{"rendered":"Buran Nalgarra \u2013 School Launch of the Senior School Program at Kindlehill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rory-speech-launch-k.hill_-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12482\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Alumnus Rory delivering a an audience captivating and powerful speech on change making in the<br>light of their experience at Kindlehill High School.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know how to seed and deliver change at Kindlehill. It\u2019s how this School got started, as a new way<br>of thinking about schooling for a new century. Even then it was place based, informed by Steiner\u2019s<br>indications for child development, spirited artistic education located in the Blue Mountains and<br>exploring what it meant for a school to be respectful of First Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021, we turned 21, we looked inward and outward. What was our next stage of growth and<br>development? A senior school has been a frequent point of interest for parents enrolling their<br>children. Was it on the cards? In the cards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it would need to be something that offered a genuine alternative to what already exists in the<br>Blue Mountains, and to be an education that centred place and community. Classrooms without<br>walls, engaging with real world problems in collaboration with community mentors who have skills<br>and expertise to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Buran Nalgarra Senior School program is set to begin in 2024. The 21st century skills of critical<br>thinking, collaboration, creative thinking and communication will be developed and applied as we<br>address global problems at a local scale. Empowerment rather than overwhelm. Community and<br>place as funds of rich knowledge and skills, rather than the current narrow focus on learning from<br>textbooks with final exams in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/spoken-word-perf-k.hill_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12483\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Students deliver a collaboratively devised Spoken Word piece, that tracks the excitement and dips of<br>igniting change to minimise single use plastic This is a creative response as part of the Senior School<br>the pilot program tackling \u201cproblems that matter\u201d within our community context.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will you join us in a murmuration, supporting an agile and responsive Senior School that will put<br>community and place at the beating heart of education. Education whose purpose is to understand<br>the thinking that has led us to the massive issues of our time, and that sets about empowering<br>students to address these, a focus on restoring and regenerating, as per the UN Decade of Ecological<br>Restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Academics from various Universities in NSW have reviewed the curriculum and universally said, this<br>is the direction senior school education needs to move into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wider community of change makers in our Blue Mountains, in response to the launch at Mt Vic<br>Flicks, have enthusiastically welcomed the idea of students engaging with projects that are<br>meaningful in our local place and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeds for ecological schooling have been planted in rich mycelium soil. At the School launch, these<br>seeds were watered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our provocation for Senior Schooling is hope; a village with its arms around young people at a critical<br>time in their learning and life. We believe in you, we see you, we celebrate you, we collaborate with<br>you to develop the fortitude, the knowledge and skills, the creative wellsprings to live well into your<br>future lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Change often starts small and potent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nature will be a wise teacher in our Senior School \u2013 Buran Nalgarra, strands of the Stringy<br>bark, twisted together to make resilient twine. The murmuration, where 6 or 7 influence<br>those around who influence the next 6 or 7\u2026..and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of WW1, Steiner started a school as a peace initiative, so that such a war against<br>humanity would not happen again. We are now making peace on a planetary scale!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As in permaculture, in the problems lay the solutions. We need to figure stuff out in<br>togetherness, and where change can permeate and transform the systems designed to<br>maintain the status quo. And, as Climate activist Rory Edwards said at the School launch.<br>Every action you do needs to be embedded in a community where your strength is realised<br>and nourished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumnus Rory delivering a an audience captivating and powerful speech on change making in thelight of their experience at Kindlehill High School. We know how to seed and deliver change at Kindlehill. It\u2019s how this School got started, as a new wayof thinking about schooling for a new century. 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