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CONNECTIONS

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STRATEGIC PLANS - CONNECTIONS
CONNECTIONS

The Hale School community maintains a diversity of connections and sense of belonging, both within our school
environment and locally, nationally and internationally.
We aspire to:
• Maintain and enhance our connections with educational institutions and organisations, with a focus on St Mary’s
Anglican Girls’ School (our sister school) and other girls’ school to enable the best of both worlds.
• Extend and explore further opportunities for alumni to feel purposefully engaged and connected.
• Nurture opportunities to recognise, understand and appreciate the diversity of our community.
• Continue to strengthen connections with parents through collaborative planning of school events and programs.

THE BEST OF
BOTH WORLDS

An integral area of focus within our Connections advantages of a boys’ school while acknowledging the
strategy is to provide the boys at Hale with an increased need to prepare boys to interact effectively alongside their
number of opportunities to work alongside female female counterparts.
students.
At the core of this connected approach is the classroom
Hale School recognises that whilst we provide an remaining a single-sex environment, while co-curricular
excellent all-boys model for education, boys also need opportunities are open to co-educational experiences
to socialise with girls, and we must provide them with where it is appropriate for the age and stage of the
the opportunities to do this through the provision of students. With that in mind, our boys are able to work
meaningful and engaging extra- and learn with girls in music, touring, study, leadership
curricular opportunities. development, sports, drama, public speaking, debating,
We call our approach the co-curricular woodwork and cooking, mock trials, and
‘best of both worlds’ health and wellbeing.
because it Developing partnerships with students from St Mary’s has
speaks to the been a longstanding and ongoing focus for Hale. As our
significant
sister school, the majority of our programs for day and
boarding students are available and, where possible,
aligned within both schools. Our intention is for students
in every year group to have opportunities to be involved in
activities with their St Mary’s peers and build friendships.
Going forward, we are also working with St Hilda’s
Anglican School for Girls and Perth College to create
additional opportunities.

Girls from any high school are invited to join Hale’s
Redfoot Youth Theatre to participate in theatre
productions and workshops.

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