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The Ray Green Speaking Prize 2022

By Sarah Walker, International Baccalaureate Diploma Coordinator In his 1924 analysis of public speaking, The Art of Public Speaking, Albert Beveridge offers advice to orators…

Boxthorn Project

Eradicating Boxthorn and rehabilitating The Friends’ School sports grounds at our Bell Street Site For those unfamiliar with the extensive and dedicated work being undertaken…

The Friends’ School Tapestry Story of Quakerism in Australia

Stitching over time The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project began in 2007. A community arts project, it is based on the UK Kendal Quaker Tapestry,…

Peter Jones Peace Prize

The Peter Jones Peace Prize is an annual writing competition for High School students at Friends’ and was created in honour of long-serving teacher of…

Jean Yeates Writing Prize 2021

Jean Yeates was a long-serving staff member with a passion for the English language and a devotion to education. She was considered an inspirational mentor…

Friends’ Artists at the Beaker Street Festival

Four Friends’ School International Baccalaureate (IB) students have been invited to take part in the Beaker Street Festival that opened last Friday night (6 August).…

Art2Words Writing Prize

This year has seen the inaugural Art2Words Writing Prize run at The Friends’ School in collaboration with Forty South. Prizes are sponsored by The Hobart…

Ray Green Speaking Prize

The Ray Green Speaking competition is held each year for Year 11 & 12 students to speak on a specific topic. This year the prompt…

2020 Exceptional IB Results

The Friends’ School wishes to congratulate our 2020 International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP)  students on their outstanding results. The 2020 IB results are a testament…

2020 Outstanding TCE Results

Congratulations to all our Year 11 & 12 students for their outstanding TCE results and their commitment to the School’s Purpose and Concerns, especially through…

The Year 11 IB “Group 4” Project

While our TCE students and Year 12 IB students are busy with exams, our Year 11 IB students have been having a bit of fun…

The Mary Stanfield Public Speaking Competition

Mary Stanfield was a stalwart of The Friends’ School; she gave devoted and loyal service during her 36 years as a teacher at the School…

Winner of the 2020 Peter Jones Peace Prize

The Peter Jones Peace Prize is named after long-serving Friends’ teacher (and Quaker) Peter Jones, who has spent a good deal of his life campaigning…

The Distance Learning Experience

During the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Friends’ School, along with schools across the nation, had to make the quick transition to Distance Learning.…

Lily unveils her project, Floral Grief

For 2020, the School launched a new subject for Years 9 and 10, the Independent Negotiated Project (INP). INP is a single unit, semester-long elective…

Teaching & Learning Update

Our E-12 Director of Teaching & Learning, Steve Barratt, has recorded this message for our current families about the process for the return to face-to-face…

2019 Outstanding TCE Results

Congratulations to all our Year 11 & 12 students for their outstanding TCE results and their commitment to the School’s Purpose and Concerns.  We are…

News Champions Forum

Thank you to Zoe Adams (Year 9) for this article about her experience at the News Champions Forum in October. News Media is our way…