Head of School

As we begin our well-deserved April holidays, I encourage you to not totally plan every minute of your children’s activities. My experience of working in international schools is that families have such exciting and action-packed holidays that students return to school exhausted and needing a holiday ! All family members need down time in the holidays and time to catch […Read more]

Recently, a very interesting article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald about changes in parenting involvement and styles over the years. I think this article provides us with a great opportunity to reflect on our parenting style and the possible implications for our children. You can read the article here. This article mirrors my own experience with parents over the […Read more]

Being a school for Australian and New Zealand families and staff, I am sure we have all experienced a range of emotions over the Christchurch shootings last week. As the shootings unravelled last week I felt absolute devastation and despair for our New Zealand friends, admiration for Jacinda Ardern, disbelief that an Australian could do this to our Tasman cousins […Read more]

Today as a school community we celebrated the Australian National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (NDA), by having a whole school Jump Jam followed by forming the words “No Way!” on the field. This was not because we have a bullying problem in our school, but because it is always important to continually highlight the importance of treating […Read more]

In many ways, I don’t think that parenting has ever been so hard, as technology continues to add complexity to our lives.  While technology has made our lives so much easier in some respects, it has definitely made parenting harder. In previous generations, parents did not have to contend with the challenges of social media, viral trends and fake news. […Read more]

In true AISHK fashion our 2018 graduates have achieved incredibly pleasing results and many of them have now headed off to start the next very exciting phase of their lives at universities around the globe (literally!). We are very proud of their many successes. Many schools and communities measure the success of their school based on the results which their […Read more]

As we begin the year of the pig next week we all have great hopes for what the year ahead might hold for us. I am sure that we are all hoping for a year filled with successes; good health, increased wealth and much happiness. I am also fairly confident that none of us want a year of challenges or […Read more]