Ravenswood Principal Mrs Anne Johnstone has been awarded the 2022 Phyllis Evans Medal at the Teacher’s Guild NSW Awards Dinner in Warwick Farm on World Teachers’ Day.

With 129-years of history, the Teachers' Guild of NSW is the longest-established professional organisation for teachers in Australia.

NSW Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning, the Hon Sarah Mitchell, was in attendance. The prize is awarded each year to recognise a 'distinguished educator of great standing.' 

The Medal is named after long-serving Headmistress of Ravenswood School for Girls, Phyllis Evans MBE, who, in the words of the Guild, 'was a great educator, a fine contributor to various professional associations, a wonderful counsellor to colleagues and in particular, served the Guild with great distinction over many decades in various roles.'

‘It is an honour to serve among a successive line of such outstanding female leaders’, says Mrs Johnstone. ‘As the world continues to change at an exponential rate, we as educators too stand on tectonic plates. It is our role to be innovative and responsive to the shifts and changes that face our students in a highly globalised, technologically revolutionary society, while also ensuring their feet are firmly grounded in strong values so that they fulfil their potential, flourish and lead meaningful lives.’