Element College Noosa

04/08/2022

Latest news is hot in your inbox 😊

06/06/2022

With Our Element Learning Hub nicely up and thriving, our attention is back on finding an incredible site for our full time learning model ELEMENT COLLEGE 💫

Muddy on-land adventures today exploring potential sites, visualising the possibilities.

Updates coming soon. Thank you for your patience 🙏🏼✨✨

29/12/2021

New kids on the block 👊🏼
‘Our Element’ a sister brand/project to Element College is almost LIVE!
Launching in Cooroy this January with part time learning programs following the same Essential skills priorities and learning/life philosophies of Element College. This offering has been designed to support our local homeschooling families with day time group learning programs plus the wider community with passion based after school hours programs. See you there!

Sign up here https://www.ourelementlearning.com/ to be in the loop as programs are announced later this week✨

Group Learning hub Cooroy Noosa. Innovation, creativity, wellbeing, environmental stewardship. Homeschool programs, after school programs.

29/10/2021

Check your inbox for details! 🌻🌻🌻
We look forward to some great conversations and connection time.

21/10/2021

https://fb.watch/8MpR_kTMTP/ 🦋🤍

28/09/2021

ATTENTION NOOSA YOUTH with passion for climate action! 🌏
The Noosa Youth Climate Summit is coming up and may be a wonderful place to connect in with your tribe. Details below... 🌱

“An event presented by youth for youth. A chance for young people to understand the climate science and learn grassroots actions we can all take to help curb the impacts. Registrations essential at www.noosaeehub.com.au
Meet at noosa council chambers on Saturday 9 October from 9-2.
Fully catered free event!”

24/09/2021

Element College represents more than a mission to usher in a new learning paradigm.
It’s about the liberation of childhood creativity and community connection for the sake of our planet and our collective future.

23/08/2021

What will the learning look like?? I am asked frequently.

Here is a little excerpt from our partners Learnlife, looking at their Nature Hub program in regional Barcelona designed for 6-11 year olds.
Element College, as a Learnlife partner hub, will adopt a similar approach tailored of course to our unique Noosa community.

🌱"Learnlife Nature Hub’s vision is to grow a community of curious, happy and capable lifelong learners. At the core of this vision is a recognition that growth as learners is dependent on individual experience of consistent positive relationships, not compliance and control."

🌱"Learning at the Nature Hub is based on a competency model which sees the learner in a holistic way. The goal is to develop the different areas of the child: learning to be, learning to think, learning to relate, learning to do and learning to live in the world."

You can see more of the Learnlife Nature Hub program here -
https://learnlife.com/l/learnlife-nature?utm_content=176621191&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-17990191

23/07/2021

An interesting perspective by Peter Gray Phd.
"Instead of admitting that the school system is disordered, an abnormal environment for children’s learning, unable to accommodate normal human variation, the school bureaucracy chooses to label the children as disordered, that is, as having some kind of biologically based abnormality, such as ADHD or a specific learning disorder..."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/freedom-learn/202103/forced-schooling-anxiety-and-learning-disorders?fbclid=IwAR0YQbAkBuUxLF1-9ZPUkENgfkN6K_6bVIOHBgiVrMrhJtIJDyqB-AyFR-I

Early academic pressure creates learning blocks, diagnosed as disorders.

05/07/2021

⭐️July update was sent out on the 2nd!
Please join us for this weeks Community zoom chat with Cyril Bourke, a consultant on the Element College creation journey, as we discuss how to approach creating the safest possible learning environments within this digital age.

Register and join via this link 👇
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcu2hrjgiHd2JpniwaPyi_UNZCnnQADbc

09/06/2021

Such a lovely read - a personal reflection of his diverse learning journey and finding his 'happy place'.
Children have such innate wisdom and articles such as this make me feel both happy and sad - how often do we overlook and disregard that wisdom due to age/ego/busyness?

Jago Bakshy shares his unique learning journey; from his birthplace in the UK, to India and most recently to Barcelona, Spain, where he is part of the cohort of the Explorers programme at Barcelona’s Learnlife Urban Hub.

07/06/2021