Evidence-based learning.
Close-to-practice research.
Using the rich intellectual resources of the Barker College to facilitate learning and growth through the School and wider community.
Reigniting Purpose in the Classroom
A Teacher’s Journey in Character Education
- Emma Scarlis
- 03 September 2025
Learning and Belonging: Lessons from Teaching History at Marri Mittigar
Over the past year I have had the privilege of teaching History at Marri Mittigar, Barker’s school-within-a-school for students from a refugee background. This experience has been one of the most rewarding of my career, offering profound lessons not only about History as a subject but also about the role of education in building belonging, resilience, and hope.
- Dr Timothy Scott
- 29 August 2025
Teaching for the Soul: Character in the Curriculum
Columnist David Brooks recently wrote in the New York Times that “Schools spend more time teaching professional knowledge than they do social and spiritual knowledge.”
- Philip Mundy
- 27 August 2025
Look Within, Go Beyond
The Process of Character & Enterprise Education at Barker
- Daniel Batchen
- 14 August 2025
Science Extension Conference: Public Lectures & Showcase - 2025
- Monday 20 October
- 6:00 - 8:15pm
- Barker College
2025 Science Extension Conference. Free public lectures on the Science Extension Course with Poster Session. Come for revision for the HSC exam just one week later, come for profesisonal development, come as you begin your Science Extension journey!
Watoto Choir
- Wednesday 29 October
- 6:30 pm
- Barker College
The Watoto choir sing with beautiful voices but more importantly with an understanding of compassion, love, faith and hope.
The Confident Parent Course - Cohort 3
- Term 1 2026
- 7:00 - 8:30 pm
- The Piazza, Kurrajong Building, Barker College Junior School
The flagship offering of the Parent Institute. A free, four-week course where parents grow, discuss and connect around parenthood.
Research Agenda 2024-2025
Our annually published document identifies high-level priority domains bringing together our rich intellectual resources to facilitate learning and growth throughout the school, and the local and global community.