NACC Leadership Biography

Gillian McAuliffe

I am the founding director of BOLD PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL, a small community school in Perth Western Australia, which has been established by parents to provide children from three to fifteen years with the opportunity to engage with a social constructionist learning environment. Presently my role is as Director of Teaching and Learning and Co-Principal of the school which is evolving to provide an edcational envrionment with a firm base in Nature based and place based education. In my role as a NACC leader I have organized workshops and conferences aimed at awaking a love of nature in the community. The school has established a REmida centre, a creative reuse centre, for the broader community. From 2006 the school has included high school education and is looking to include an Infant Toddler centre in the near future.

Over the past few years I have presented at conferences in Perth and Hong Kong discussing Bold Park Community Schools approach to education.