by Stuart Harris | Oct 25, 2021 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
In late 2019, the Treetops Board of Directors met to develop a new strategic plan. As a part of the process, we wanted to respond to data received via school community surveys seeking greater physical and outdoor education opportunities for our students, and we also...
by Kate Myburgh | Jul 30, 2021 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
At Treetops, environmental awareness and sustainable practices are carried all the way through our students’ education. Forming these values early in our students’ learning journeys supports them to become more environmentally responsible, and encourages the...
by Stuart Harris | Jul 21, 2021 | Community & News, Featured
When Victoria passed the Education Act 1872, it ushered in the first free and secular education to Australian parents. This Act also introduced the idea of parental choice in education. Today the concept of choice is well embedded in Western Australia with some 159...
by Kerry Raak | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
For many years the WACE ATAR programme has been seen as the only means of entry to university. However, the IB Diploma Programme is consistently gaining in popularity in Australian schools as a credible and preferred option. Treetops has been offering the...
by Jayne Simpson | Oct 20, 2020 | Community & News
There has been a school at 12 Beenong Road for 50 years now. At the beginning of its history the school was very alternative – students determining how their day would be spent, with ‘ministers’ responsible for the various aspects of the education and decisions made...
by Jayne Simpson | Sep 21, 2020 | Community & News, Featured
Maria Montessori lived and worked during the time that the dropping of the first nuclear bomb forced the inhabitants of our world to collectively face, at the same time, their own mortality in becoming aware that we now have the technology that can be used to destroy...
