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Coaching for academic excellence (Primary & Secondary Y1–12) and emotional intelligence development.

With 10 campuses across Melbourne and South Australia, we have helped thousands of students build confidence for life and accelerate in school. Box Hill | Caulfield South | Springvale | Point Cook | Wantirna South | Ringwood | Cheltenham | Preston | Essendon

Enrol your child today for a free assessment and consultation at your nearest campus! Visit qsschool.com.au

• English/Writing
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al Ability
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• VCE 11/12
• Scholarship Preparation
• Interview Coaching
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• Online Learning

03/09/2026

A story is more than something to finish—it is an opportunity to predict, question, explain and create. 📚🐌

This September school holiday, our four-day Reading & Writing Program will help Year 1–2 students turn reading into deeper understanding, confident speaking and meaningful written expression.

✨ Year 1 students will explore one story each day while building:

• Reading comprehension
• Vocabulary in context
• Oral language and reasoning
• Complete sentence writing
• Creative thinking

✏️ Year 2 students will move from comprehension to written expression through:

• Character analysis
• Summarising and sequencing
• Text-based evidence
• Synonyms and descriptive language
• Short, structured writing

Through stories, discussion, visual scaffolding and hands-on tasks, children learn to express ideas clearly—and turn stories into their own words.

📅 28 September–1 October 2026
⏰ Year 1 · Level 2: 9:30am–12:30pm
⏰ Year 2 · Level 3: 1:30pm–4:30pm

Send us a DM or contact your local QS School campus for enrolment information.

30/08/2026

How to help your child navigate friendship challenges 🤝

When your child faces conflicts or disappointments in friendships, what is your first instinct? For most parents, it is to step in and fix the problem.

But in our latest EQ module, Ms. Susan shares a powerful perspective: friendship is a mirror. It reflects our personal values and our relationship with ourselves.

Instead of just fixing the issue for them, try guiding your child with these two steps: 👇

🌱 1. Notice & Restore
When upset, the first step is noticing the emotional response. Follow up with drawing, exercising, or talking it out to restore inner equilibrium.

🌱 2. High Standards & Open Minds
Help your child understand what they truly want in a friend. Teach them to keep their standards high, while staying open to the perspectives of others.

Relating to friends is a life skill that never stops developing. ✨

💬 Over to you: Has your child ever faced friendship challenges at school? Let us know in the comments below!

🔖 Save this post to help your child build healthy friendships!

26/08/2026

Big news for Term 4, 2026 ✨

Qs School is coming to Sacré Cœur, Glen Iris, bringing two signature English programs to the Caulfield Campus.

📘 Essential English EAL | Years 2–10
Build stronger foundations in reading, writing, speaking and listening, with structured support for multilingual learners.

✍️ Special Writing | Levels 4–9
Develop clearer structure, stronger expression and deeper critical thinking for school writing and selective-entry preparation.

From language foundations to confident, mature expression, students can now access a clear English learning pathway on campus.

📍 Sacré Cœur Campus
172 Burke Rd, Glen Iris VIC 3146

🎓 Term 4, 2026
✨ Trial lessons and enrolments now open

DM us to find the right class for your child.

23/08/2026

How to help your child build long-term stamina (and avoid burnout) 🔋

Effort is important, but if a student operates like a permanent engine without breaks, they will eventually lose their elasticity. In Part 2 of our EQ module on The Science of High Performance, we move from powering up to the vital discipline of the recovery cycle.

Peak cognitive performance is not a straight line of constant effort—it’s a pulse. Elite athletes like tennis champion Carlos Alcaraz know that staying sharp requires an intentional downshift. This is called "selective tension": keeping the mind focused while letting the physical body relax.

Here is how you can support this at home:

💡 Acknowledge the Brain Drain
After a difficult exam or a heavy study session, validate your child's exhaustion. Acknowledge that their brain has just done a massive workout and encourage them to fully power down before jumping into the next task.

💡 Practice "Muscle Melts"
If they still feel wired in the evening, have them squeeze their fists and shoulders tightly for a few seconds, then release it all at once. This signals to the nervous system that the work is officially done.

High performance is built on the absolute quality of rest. By teaching our students the art of the pulse, we are helping them build the long-term stamina required for sustainable excellence.

🔖 Save this post to help your child master the art of recovery, and share it with a fellow parent!

22/08/2026

✍️ YOUR WORDS. YOUR VOICE. YOUR CHALLENGE.

The 2026 Qs School Term 3 Inter-Campus Writing Competition is now open! 🎉

Whether you love creating imaginative stories or expressing powerful ideas, this is your chance to let your writing shine.

📌 Open to Qs School students in Level 4 and above
✍️ Creative Writing or Essay Writing
📏 Maximum 600 words
💻 Submit via the Student Portal
⏳ Deadline: Midnight, 17 September 2026

Winners and honourable mentions will be selected from each year level, with exciting book prizes to be won! 📚 Results will be announced in Term 4.

All entries must be the student’s own original work and will be checked for plagiarism and AI-generated writing.

Choose your challenge and start writing today! ✨

16/08/2026

HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD TURN TEST ANXIETY INTO ROCKET FUEL 🚀

When your child faces a major assessment or a big competition, what is your first instinct? For most parents, it is to gently say, "Just relax."

But what if trying to force calm actually increases their anxiety?

In our latest EQ module on The Science of High Performance, Mr. Josh Brewer explains a fascinating psychological concept: the physical signs of stress—like a racing heart or butterflies in the stomach—are not inherently bad. In fact, they are a biological requirement for peak performance. 🧠✨

When a student feels their heart pounding, their body is simply moving extra oxygen to their brain so they can think faster and sharper. If they label this feeling as panic, the brain shuts down. But if they label it as readiness, they enter the "optimal readiness zone."

Elite athletes do not eliminate these strong feelings; they lean into them. They view those butterflies not as fear, but as rocket fuel powering them up for the challenge ahead. 🛹🎾

Here is how you can support this vital self-regulation at home:

💡 Change the Narrative: Avoid the instinct to tell your child to just relax. Instead, use the language of "rocket fuel." Remind them that their body is simply powering up to help them succeed.

🌬️ Practice the "Psychological Sigh": If their internal dial creeps into panic, practice this manual override together: take a double inhale through the nose, followed by a long, slow exhale through the mouth. This simple breathing pattern instantly brings the nervous system back into a focused, high-performance window.

By teaching our children how to steer this internal energy, we give them the ultimate toolkit to face any challenge with calm confidence.

💬 Over to you: Has your child ever experienced a "blank mind" during a high-pressure moment? Try teaching them the "rocket fuel" mindset this week and let us know how it goes in the comments! 👇

🔖 Save this post for the next time your child has a big test, and share it with a fellow parent!

09/08/2026

hange can be exciting, uncomfortable, unexpected — and sometimes all three at once.

In this Qs EQ module, students explore Being with Change and learn why our brains and nervous systems often resist the unknown.

Rather than telling children to simply “get over it,” we help them pause and notice:

What am I feeling right now?
What is making this change difficult for me?
What can I do next?

Primary students use role-play and movement to recognise and shift emotions, while secondary students reflect on a change they would like to make in areas such as study, friendships, exercise, or mindset.

The goal is not to remove fear or discomfort.

It is to help children understand that they can feel those emotions without staying stuck in them — and still keep moving forward.

Parents play an important role too. Children notice how the adults around them respond to uncertainty, setbacks, and change.

Learning to adapt is not about loving every change.
It is about building the resilience to move through it.

26/07/2026

In an age of constant digital distractions, multitasking is often mistaken for efficiency. In reality, the "Cognitive Switching Penalty" is severely draining your child's brain battery. 🧠🔋

Cognitive psychology tells us that a young brain needs roughly 10 to 15 minutes of uninterrupted effort to fully warm up its "Mental Loading Bar" and enter a state of peak efficiency known as "Flow." If they are interrupted during this initial ramp-up—even by a well-meaning parent offering a plate of fruit 🍎—that mental loading bar resets straight back to zero!

Deep focus rarely relies on willpower alone; it is a structured operational system. In this week's Qs EQ module, Mr. Josh Brewer teaches students how to move from defense to offense by mastering two practical tools for high performance:

⚓ The Anchor: A physical trigger or power phrase that officially signals to the brain that the deep-focus session has begun.

🅿️ The Parking Lot: A dedicated scrap piece of paper used when internal worries or random to-do items pop up. Students simply write the thought down to safely delay it, instantly clearing their minds to stay on task!

💡 Takeaway for Parents: Tonight, try protecting your child's workspace by providing 15 minutes of total quiet during their initial "loading phase."

💬 What is the biggest distraction for your child during homework time? Let us know in the comments below! 👇

25/07/2026

Small moments can reveal so much about who a child is becoming. ✨

In Episode 2 of Qs Journey: Seen & Valued Stories, we celebrate meaningful moments from across our campuses—students sharing with kindness, stepping forward with courage, exploring ideas creatively, and taking responsibility for the spaces and people around them.

These actions may seem small, but together they shape confidence, character and community.

At Qs School, every child deserves to feel seen, valued and encouraged to grow.

Keep learning. Keep growing. Keep being wonderful. 💙

19/07/2026

AI can multitask. Human minds weren’t built to. 🧠🤖

In an era where routine multitasking will be automated by AI, your child's ultimate competitive advantage won't be how fast they switch between screens—it will be how deeply they can focus.

Yet, we live in a digital world designed to constantly pull at their awareness. 📲👀

In our latest EQ module, Josh Brewer dives into The Focused Mind & The Stewardship of Attention. Here is the biological reality: every time a student toggles between a homework task and a quick phone notification, it leaves behind what cognitive psychologists call an "Attentional Residue."

That innocent 2-second glance acts as a heavy productivity tax, slowing down cognitive performance and making the exact same task take up to 40% longer! 📉⏱️

So, how can we help our children build a "mental shield" and train their focus in the Age of AI? Here are 3 actionable strategies from this week's lesson:

1️⃣ Shift to "Monotasking": Take inspiration from world-renowned young inventor Gitanjali Rao. She treats her intense innovation sessions like a pristine, sterile laboratory—zero external contaminants or distractions allowed! 🧪✨

2️⃣ Try the "Brain Dump" Method: Before starting high-stakes work, have your child write down internal worries, to-do lists, or invisible digital pressures on a physical piece of paper. Clearing working memory allows the brain to focus 100% on the task at hand. ✍️📄 (And keep that phone face down and out of sight!) 🚫📱

3️⃣ Safeguard the Workflow: When you see your child deeply engaged in a study block or creative flow, actively protect that space. True academic excellence requires an uninterrupted environment. 🚪🤫

✨ Remember: Elite cognitive performance is not an accident. It is a trained, strategic discipline.

💬 Over to you parents: What is your family's golden rule for managing screens during homework hours? Let us know in the comments below! 👇

🔖 Save this post to try the "Brain Dump" method tonight, and share it with a fellow parent who needs this reminder!

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