Intermediate Stretch & Challenge Conferences

My thanks for an excellent day of perfectly pitched presentations. My students were enthused and their interest in ideas beyond the classroom truly ignited. You got inside their heads, messed with their minds and left them wanting more. A really refreshing and uplifting day – we’ll be back!

Thankyou for the absolutely fabulous set of lectures at the Oxford conferences – interesting and inspirational.

Thank you for superb, inspiring lectures

Thank you for providing not only the gifted and talented students of St. Laurence’s College, but G&T students across Brisbane, with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the arena of philosophy and critical reasoning. My students were fascinated by Julie’s presentations and your own; and, on behalf of the College, I would like to congratulate you on a highly successful event.

I had no idea how important it was to be here today – I have a lot more thinking to do now!

The students and staff we took this year were most impressed and challenged by the presentation – it certainly improved the quality of their thinking and academic engagement.

I wanted to give you some feedback from your day. The students LOVED your sessions and found the day very engaging. I was delighted to be able to host you here at our school and in a few years please think of us again.

The value of your work is plain for all to see. When I see how much the students gain from this one single day it makes everything worthwhile. My boys absolutely love the cerebral nourishment you provide for them.

My congratulations on your tour de force! I thought that your presentation was absolutely outstanding. So did the boys. You have stimulated a great deal of THINKING at Brighton Grammar School on
a wide range of subjects.

Your work joined many of the threads that we have covered in the courses I have constructed at BGS and then explored new territory.

Conversations on the way home indicated that you had certainly made students think hard about some amazingly complex issues. I too, was challenged and extended by what I heard and appreciated the opportunity to take the measure of some of these issues, how to present them, and precisely what constitutes higher order thinking.

In particular, I appreciated the way you exposed the fog of utilitarianism prevailing in our current cultural thought processes and offered students other models and possibilities.

My students have done nothing but buzz about you and the day and their interest in things Ethical, Philosophical (and yes, even Theological) has been multiplied.

I am so thrilled we had the opportunity to attend. My students are still talking about it! I look forward to participating again next time!

Just wanted to say thank you for organizing the conference last week. It was absolutely fantastic!
We look forward to attending next year.

I just wanted to pass on many thanks for the recent Sydney Conf, it was an incredible experience that myself and my students thoroughly enjoyed, the Girls first response was when can we go again!

This conference is a program of fast-paced, rigorous and challenging lectures specifically designed for gifted year 10,11 & 12 students.

Pupils acquired a sense of how to appraise ideas as well as increasing their knowledge and skills. This is not about exams; it is about helping students to see all subjects as part of one body of knowledge.