Welcome to SHINE Academy for Girls
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Click here to read the Parent and Student Testimonials page
SHINE Academy for Girls presents a specialised social and emotional education for 7–14 year old girls pro-actively building resilience, self-esteem, self-acceptance, healthy confidence, excellent communication skills, leadership skills, innovative thinking, the ability to resist peer pressure and wide-ranging social skills to cope and excel in today's world.
There are also resilience, leadership and self-confidence programs available for boys at our brother academy: LONGFORD & FRASER Leadership Academy for Boys
SHINE Academy for Girls is a resilience and leadership academy with high expectations and high standards producing graduates who will be the inspiring young women and leaders of tomorrow.
SHINE Academy for Girls promotes standards of excellence in:
- Emotional Resilience, Self Esteem and Healthy Confidence
- Outstanding Verbal and Visual Presentation of Self (historically known as Elocution and Deportment)
- Emotional (EQ) and Social Intelligence (SQ)
- Assertiveness (includes life-long skills to handle bullying)
- Social Etiquette
- Living and loving with integrity, honesty, kindness, courtesy and courage
Our programs are held weekly for eight weeks of each school term. There are eight programs from which to select which are presented over the school year in pairs.
Classes are held outside of school hours.
The Director and Tutor, Melissa Anderson, creates a class atmosphere that is warm, appreciative, encouraging, attentive, engaging and inspiring. We do not allow cliques to form. We work as a team always.
Our curriculum is designed to provide practical, hands-on training through peer review, discussions, role-play, multi-media analysis, case studies, experiential activities, competitions, games, self-assessment and structured class exercises.
As well as building the foundations of being well-rounded, polite and courteous, we also provide girls with the finishing touches they need to really shine.
Many of our students are high achievers who are looking for that extra edge in an already competitive world.
Their parents realise that a narrow focus on academic excellence does not develop the sort of emotional intelligence required for leadership in chosen professions or, simply, in life.
Many of our students show early signs of leadership qualities and we work to develop and improve those skills even further.
The SHINE Academy programs are ideal for gifted children. The most important thing that gifted children need to learn is how to socialise. Their innate intelligence is a given and with excellent social and emotional skills, they can maximise their opportunities to develop into a well-rounded individual, credited not only for their intellectual gifts but also for their social awareness.
Course succession and advantages of completing all SHINE Academy for Girls programs:
Graduation Night:
- ONE Term completed: Junior Diploma of Leadership (7–10 years) and (11–14 years)
- TWO Terms completed: Junior Bachelor of Leadership (7–10 years) and (11–14 years)
- THREE Terms completed: Junior Masters of Leadership (7–10 years) and (11–14 years)
- FOUR Terms completed: Junior Ph.D of Leadership (7–10 years) and (11–14 years)
We also offer a school holiday program in Melbourne. The next program is January 18, 19 and 20 January 2012.
The July 2011 program was booked out. Click here for details.
Our aims are simple:
- To promote a generation of confident, kind, thoughtful, courageous and empowered young women
- To pro-actively immunise the next generation against depression, anxiety and mental distress by championing the skills of emotional resilience and emotional intelligence (“Society gets much better results from prevention rather than intervention” – Professor John Gottman, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Washington)
- To pro-actively inspire our girls with the life skills to cope and flourish despite the stresses of being a young person in today’s world
- To pro-actively educate girls with the life skills that build a resilient, empowered and socially-skilled person capable of handling life’s positive and negative experiences with confidence, grace, dignity, self-awareness and courage
Our goal:
…to build girls' self-esteem, confidence, emotional resilience and wide-ranging social skills to cope and excel in the 21st Century
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