2025 PARENT SEMINARS
A series of seminars for parents on important issues.
Study Skills with Prue Salter
FOR YEAR 7 STUDENTS & PARENTS
Speakers: Prue Salter
DATE: WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY, 2025
TIME: 6:30PM – 8:00PM
VENUE: ASTRA THEATRE
With more than 20 years’ experience, Dr Prue Salter, Director of Enhanced Learning Educational Services (ELES), is an expert in the domain of supporting and advising students in developing a tool box of effective study skills and routines. This practical, informative session introduces students and parents to three main areas of effective study;
1. Managing homework and assignments effectively by efficient time management.
2. Learning to be more organised for school and at home using structures and routines.
3. Working and studying effectively in high school and becoming a more powerful learner.
This seminar will build skills and promote effective conversations between Year 7 parents and their daughters in building a solid foundation of routine and application.
Starting at Q –Red Shoe Connection
FOR KINDERGARTEN PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr & Anni Sandwell
DATE: TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY, 2025
TIME: 8:30AM – 9:30AM
VENUE: GALAXY THEATRE
Starting school for the very first time is not only a big step for our children but also for their parents. For our children, their teacher will guide them in everything they need to know. For our parents, there is often a feeling of uncertainty. This seminar is an opportunity for our new parents to ask those questions, to share ideas, to build connections and to help each other thrive as parents.
—› Registration required by Friday 21 February, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/cFHwGLmPcP
Inside the World of Friendship –Finding Her Feet
FOR YEARS 3 & 4 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr, Anni Sandwell, Year 3 & 4 Teachers
DATE: MONDAY 31 MARCH, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: GALAXY THEATRE
Your daughter is at an important stage of learning skills of communication that will support her as she develops friendships and importantly deal with change and navigate conflict. As parents we need to let her find her feet. This seminar will help parents recognise strategies to help support their daughter and provide guidance that will allow her to flourish. Empowering our young girls to find and use their voice is a skill for life. They have the capacity for great wisdom. The impact of social media upon young people will also be a focus.
—› Registration required by Wednesday 26 March, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/5qFwxDgzA3
ySafe
FOR YEARS K-12 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr & ySafe
DATE: TUESDAY 1 APRIL, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: ASTRA THEATRE
Parenting in the digital age is a multifaceted experience. ySafe provide parents with realistic and practical cyber safety education sessions, that equip and empower parents to actively participate in their children’s online lives. Packed with real-world, relevant and evidence-based information, this session will provide strategy-rich content that can be implemented immediately at home to promote safer online environments.
Parents will gain insight into current online trends and issues experienced by young people. It will lift the veil on the invisible issues experienced by young people in online environments. Providing positive, strategy-rich, and practical content that helps parents ignite conversations with their children about the online world, this session also shares the tools parents need to guide and support them.
—› Registration required by Thursday 27 March, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/LtdjVA26zX
Unpacking the World of a Tweenager
FOR YEAR 5 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr, Anni Sandwell & Year 5 Teachers
DATE: TUESDAY 13 MAY, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: GALAXY THEATRE
Your daughter might be hurtling towards adolescence, but how can you help her to reclaim and celebrate ‘girlhood’? In the workshop we will explore some of the pressures, emotions, and challenges that your daughter might be experiencing during these ‘not quite teenager’ years. Psychologists and author, Steve Biddulph has written extensively on the lost years of girlhood. In his words “Ten year old’s are fashion conscious (or to put it more accurately, fashion anxious). Twelve year old’s are mortified to wear the wrong label, or not be seen with the cool soft drink or snack foods.” This workshop will explore ways that parents can maintain a strong bond with their daughter, while encouraging and negotiating age-appropriate freedoms.
—› Registration required by Thursday 8 May, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/xar0PvtqRW
Looking Ahead –
Demystifying Year 11 & Year 12
FOR YEAR 11 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr, Julie Eggleton & Year 11 Coordinator
DATE: THURSDAY 15 MAY, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: RENNIE LIBRARY
Whilst our daughters often feel confident as they manoeuvre the final academic program of Year 11 and Year 12, parents sometimes feel a degree of uncertainty around the academic jargon and their role in supporting this emerging young adult. There are often key questions asked by our parents. What are the expectations around studying? What are the ‘normal’ social practices for their daughter? How important is the academic program of Year 11 for their tertiary path? This seminar will allow parents to ask questions and revisit information shared at the commencement of the year. It is an opportunity to build a stronger understanding of what lies ahead in both Year 11 and Year 12 and beyond, as students start navigating the options and pathways for when they leave the school gates.
—› Registration required by Friday 9 May, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/9rwAYTzR1t
Guiding Growth
FOR YEAR 1 AND YEAR 2 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr, Anni Sandwell, Pip Turner & Year 1 & 2 Teachers
DATE: TUESDAY 27 MAY, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: GALAXY THEATRE
This evening is an opportunity to hear from the classroom teachers about building positive behaviours around social awareness and selfmanagement. Discussion will be focused on the individual child’s academic, social and emotional identity and resilience. We will also be addressing a range of topics around; understanding friendships, the gains of ‘boredom’, and most importantly a digital free world. Fostering the qualities of a confident girl.
—› Registration required by Thursday 22 May, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/yt1rxtA0fF
Beyond the Gates
FOR YEAR 12 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr, Julie Eggleton & Year 12 Coordinator
DATE: WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: RENNIE LIBRARY
This seminar is an opportunity for parents to not only gain greater clarity around the final steps of the academic journey of Year 12, it is also an opportunity to understand the support provided to our students to ensure they are equipped with the necessary skills and information to make informed decisions about the future. A key component of Year 12 is to encourage every student to take an active role in considering their future path, to understand the importance of research and to feel confident as they prepare for their new path beyond the School gates. The purpose of this evening is to ensure parents feel informed and confident that their daughters are heading in the right direction.
—› Registration required by Friday 6 June, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/xRtkLF1Df0
Building the Tool Box
FOR YEAR 10 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr & Year 10 Coordinator
DATE: TUESDAY 17 JUNE, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: RENNIE LIBRARY
This workshop is targeted at helping parents to support their daughters to develop academic and social routines that will lay strong foundations for Years 11 and 12. In Year 10, all students experience change within the school domain; relationships with teachers will be growing, friendships will be widening, conversations regarding academic paths will be happening but not all students know how to embrace the opportunities of Year 10. As educators we witness the long-term gain of students embracing the tools of learning in Year 10 and taking responsibility of their decision making: academically, socially and emotionally.
—› Registration required by Thursday 12 June, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/CiCA3pB6dK
Youth Mental Health First Aid for Teens
FOR YEARS 7 – 10 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr
DATES: SESSION 1
SESSION 2
SESSION 3
SESSION 4
THURSDAY 31 JULY, 2025
THURSDAY 7 AUGUST, 2025
THURSDAY 14 AUGUST, 2025
THURSDAY 21 AUGUST, 2025
TIME: 5:00PM – 8:00PM
VENUE: QUEENWOOD SENIOR CAMPUS
In Term 3 2025, Mrs Kerr (Director of Wellbeing) will be offering the opportunity for Queenwood parents to complete the Youth Mental Health First Aid Course. This 14-hour course will be offered over a duration of 4 weeks. The course will be available for parents of student in Years 7 – 10. A maximum number of 20 is permitted. This course equips adults who teach, care for, or support young people with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to recognise, understand and respond to a young person experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis. More information will be shared at the commencement of 2025.
—› Expressions of Interest by Sunday 1 June, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/7uukaEtEXG
The Changing Domain –Mastering the Teenager
FOR YEAR 8 PARENTS
Speakers: Sue Kerr & Year 8 Coordinator
DATE: MONDAY 18 AUGUST, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: RENNIE LIBRARY
Whether this is your first daughter or your third daughter, the changing nature of the teenager can always bring elements of uncertainty and complexity. As they start to grow and question their identify, change is often inevitable. As parents it is important to be able to recognise this change and recognise our role in balancing the pendulum of independence and guidance. This seminar is an opportunity for parents to develop a greater insight into the changes that their daughters may be experiencing and strategies that will help their daughters manage this transition.
—› Registration required by Friday 15 August, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/t9WB7GFj2u
The Journey Ahead
FOR YEAR 6 PARENTS
Speakers: Anni Sandwell, Sue Kerr & Pip Turner
DATE: TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM
VENUE: THE ASTRA THEATRE
Whether this is your first daughter or your third daughter, the changing nature of the teenager can always bring elements of uncertainty and complexity. As they start to grow and question their identify, change is often inevitable. As parents it is important to be able to recognise this change and recognise our role in balancing the pendulum of independence and guidance. This seminar is an opportunity for parents to develop a greater insight into the changes that their daughters may be experiencing and strategies that will help their daughters manage this transition.
—› Registration required by Thursday 23 October, 2025
—› Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/Q6VUzRP9AV