Independent Schools Queensland

E-scooters and e-bikes are a popular way for students to get around, but the rules are changing. 🛴🚲

From 1 July 2026, new laws will begin rolling out including changes to rider requirements, fines, speed limits and illegal devices.

Learn what the changes mean for your family: https://ow.ly/s0si50Zet8h

📉What Good Maths Teaching Looks Like ➗

Friday 4 September | Term 3 Staff PD / Pupil‑Free Day | event for ISQ members and non-members

Join primary and secondary mathematics teachers from across the country for What Good Maths Teaching Looks Like — a full‑day, evidence‑informed professional learning event focused on what genuinely works in maths classrooms. After a highly successful and fully booked event last year, this conference returns by popular demand.

Designed for Early Years, Primary and Secondary maths teachers, the day brings together leading educators and researchers from across Australia to explore practical, classroom‑ready strategies grounded in the science of learning.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

🔸Dr Siobhan Merlo – Taking on Australia’s numeracy crisis with the Science of Maths
🔸Brad Nguyen – Strategies to Increase Classroom Engagement in Maths

Across the day, participants can choose from a range of targeted breakout sessions, including:

🔸Alex Blanksby on explicit teaching, questioning, and high participation in secondary maths
🔸Dr Siobhan Merlo on building conceptual understanding using the instructional hierarchy
🔸Loren Sorgiovanni on teaching explicitly without over‑preparation in secondary maths
🔸Toni Hatten‑Roberts on navigating myths and misalignments in maths education
🔸Brad Nguyen on supporting fluent recall of number facts in primary maths
🔸Caiti Wade on embedded retrieval practice in secondary maths
🔸Kelly Norris on strengthening early numeracy through decision‑ready assessment (maths screener)

And more

📍 Location: Clayfield College, Brisbane
Conveniently located close to Brisbane Domestic Airport, making this an ideal one‑day option for regional schools.

🕘 Time: 9:00am–3:15pm


This event sold out last year — don’t miss out in 2026 👉 https://ow.ly/4oAS50ZajLs

QUEENSLAND DAY I 6 JUNE: Today, we celebrate Queensland Day and the people, communities and organisations that make our state such a remarkable place to live, learn and work.
Queensland's strength lies in its diversity, innovation and strong sense of community. From local communities to world-class education, research and industry, our state continues to be shaped by the people who call it home.

Independent Schools Queensland is proud to work alongside independent schools across the state, supporting choice in education and helping school communities deliver high-quality learning opportunities. Together, school leaders, staff, students and families make an important contribution to the strength and prosperity of Queensland.

As we mark the anniversary of Queensland becoming a separate colony in 1859, we join communities across the state in celebrating our rich history and all that makes Queensland unique.

Engagement doesn’t start with compliance. It starts with belonging.

This Reconciliation Week, we are reminded that real change in education happens when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students feel safe, seen, and connected in our schools.

We’re inviting educators and leaders to be part of something important— the Improving First Nations Student Engagement Masterclass.

This isn’t just another professional learning session.
It’s a chance to:
✨ reflect on what truly shapes engagement
✨ move beyond tokenism into meaningful, culturally responsive practice
✨ leave with practical strategies you can implement immediately

Because when students feel they belong, everything changes.
🗓 Brisbane & Online – 10 June: https://ow.ly/HUeq50Z5pWv
🗓 Cairns – 24 August: https://ow.ly/LbNm50Z5pWt
🗓 Rockhampton – 10 September: https://ow.ly/EHBH50Z5pWw

Let’s do this work together. Let’s listen more deeply. Let’s lead differently.

👉 Leaders and teachers, ISQ members and non-members, join us and walk alongside our students and communities.

Under One Sky National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Competition Entries are now open from 14 May to 12 June 2026. This national competition celebrates First Nations artists, showcasing culture, creativity and storytelling while providing a platform to share art with wider audiences. 👉Read more here: https://awards.judgify.me/under1sky

WORK WITH US | Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ) is seeking a Senior Employee Relations Advisor to join our specialist ER team on a one-year contract to backfill a parental leave absence, with the possibility of extension or permanency depending on organisational needs.

The Senior Employee Relations Advisor is primarily responsible for partnering with school leaders from our member schools to deliver confidential, high-level strategic and risk aware employee and industrial relations advice across a wide range of matters.

🔗 Find out more - https://ow.ly/OKfE50Z2Y6j

For more information on this opportunity, or for a confidential discussion please reach out to Lisa Farah in HR at [email protected].

Finished Year 12 in 2025? Or have a young person who did? The Next Step survey is closing soon! It takes just a few minutes and there’s a MacBook Air to be won 💻✨ Check email/SMS for the link and get it done today. More info at http://www.qld.gov.au/nextstep

The Heart of Learning is a two‑day professional learning event supporting teachers, school leaders and education professionals to strengthen student wellbeing, consent education and respectful relationships through whole‑school approaches.

🔹 Day 1 | Student Wellbeing and Learning
Featuring Leanne Levinge, Dr Brad Marshall, Dr Scott Griffiths and Ben Sacco.

🔗Register: https://connectandlearn.isq.qld.edu.au/local/events/?id=3ad08bf5-80a8-f011-bbd2-6045bdc2fb86

🔹 Day 2 | Consent and Respectful Relationships in Practice
Featuring Jane Gilmore, Dr Ray Swann, Jesuit Social Services, Natasha Milner and Jeremy Kalbstein.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with a range of support services over the two days, along with ISQ's Alliance Partners Compass and Cybernetic Shield.

🔗Register: https://connectandlearn.isq.qld.edu.au/local/events/?id=fe8e148d-81a8-f011-bbd2-000d3ad09cb4