Guiding effective holiday screen time
With the summer fast approaching, Joan Weir shares her favourite educational apps., convinced that parents and teachers should be guiding rather than forbidding screen time.
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Holiday homework for EAL students
EAL students need to concentrate extra hard in class to understand what is going on in school. During the vacations, they have less guidance. Anita Bamberger has some ideas to make holiday homework fun and rewarding.
A free resource for Early Years teachers
Inspire your children to become budding astronomers or astronauts – lots of great ideas from Jan Homden to fire their imagination.
Great new picture books for 2018
This month Kate Shepherd reviews three very different picture books all featuring animals in the main character roles.
Danny Ritterman reports from “Raising the Bar” – the primary schools conference which took place in August 2017 and included the launch of the NESA (NSW Education Standards Authority) compliant version of MAPPEN.
Early Years Resources from Jan Homden. Fun packed ideas and activities to dip into and get the school year off to an exciting start!
Designing playgrounds for small spaces
Play is fundamental to the needs of children, especially in the early years, but schools built on smaller sites have a particular problem in providing adequate space for play. Prue Walsh explains how to make the absolute best of what you have.
Kate Shepherd reviews two books for suitable for younger teenagers, in which remarkable journeys have been undertaken by the central character.
It is what it is?
As an international school principal, there were a number of recurring problems that never seemed to get solved to anyone’s complete satisfaction, writes Andy Homden. Finding reliable suppliers for sports team kit was one of these.
By Kate Shepherd
This month Kate looks at new fiction for all ages from Saudi Arabia, Colombia and Portugal and a non-fiction text for upper primary and lower secondary that examines changes in rural Ghana brought about by creative economic initiatives.