Principal News
Welcome to Week One of Term Two.This a short week with Easter Monday and ANZAC day on Friday. Welcome back all our families and welcome to all our new families joining us this Term.
We will have our ANZAC Day Commemorative School Service this Thursday at 10 am. Please consider joining our school at either the dawn service in Gladstone or the Calliope service on ANZAC day this Friday. More information about times is further down in this newsletter.
Anzac Day honours all Australian personnel who have served in wars, conflicts and peace operations. The poster below commemorates 110 years since the Gallipoli Campaign involving the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and the Royal Australian Navy. Major Ernest Morgan Williams, Brigadier General Henry George Chauvel and Captain Walter Percy Farr sitting in front of Courtney's Post. The HMA Submarine AE2 made its way through the Dardanelles strait to the Sea of Marmara but was sunk by a Turkish torpedo.
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/resources/anzac-day-2025-poster
Equity and Excellence
Generative artificial intelligence in Queensland Schools
- The effective use of digital tools, resources and environments by teachers and learners is essential to respond and adapt to a changing world. Awareness of the capabilities, benefits and challenges of digital tools, alongside their safe, ethical and responsible use—particularly in the context of generative AI—prepares every child and student for a digitally enabled future.
- Generative AI tools can contribute to future-focused learning. Teachers remain instrumental in leading learning, including helping students developing critical and creative thinking skills, and ethical understanding to safely and responsibly use generative AI for learning.
- Education Ministers from all Australian states and territories agreed that responding to the risks and harnessing opportunities from generative AI technologies is a national education priority and the Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools was developed by a National Taskforce to provide guidance on the ethical, safe and responsible use of generative AI in schools in ways that benefit students, schools and society.
- With the release of the Framework, the department has developed initial guidance materials to support Queensland state schools to operationalise the principles and guiding statements. These materials, for Queensland state school teachers, can be accessed on OnePortal.
- In Term 4, 2024 the department undertook a short trial of a student generative AI tool named Corella. The tool is based on QChat and has additional configurations for classroom use and additional security layers for our students.
- 14 secondary schools from across Queensland representing all the regions trialled the tool with limited classes in Year 9 and 10 in Term 4. This trial will be evaluated to assist the department to identify the opportunities that a generative AI tool brings to teaching and learning.