This time last year, I started agonizing over whether my daughter was ready for school. Her birthday is in June and in the state we live in, the cut off for sending children to school the following January is July 31st. Most of her preschool class was going to school the following year. She would… Continue Reading
It is the June holidays and end of Term 2 – it’s likely you have received your child’s mid year school report. Times have changed since we were at school in the 1980’s when a C on a school report was average and if you got a D, you didn’t get fed dinner or were… Continue Reading
School pick up that is. I have just watched Channel 9’s new show, Love Comes To Town but not that sort of pick up. I mean good, old after school pick up. You know, like collecting your children at the end of the school day. My husband picked the kids up from school the other… Continue Reading
Teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 are the most violent people in Australia. Age 17 is the worst for acts of bashings, robberies and abductions. And 90 per cent of these crimes are committed by boys. It is believed, the three major contributors to teenage violence are increased prevalence of violent electronic games,… Continue Reading
Reading is a fundamental building block for children of all ages. Most children will know how to read by about Year 1 or age 7 and will then soar. When I was a teacher, it was fascinating watching a child have that breakthrough moment with reading. Sometimes children will struggle and struggle and then just like… Continue Reading
My daughter is in Year 3 and had to choose a topic to write a three-minute speech on from a list of Australian history questions on topics such as the suffragettes, convicts, WWII and the Aboriginals. She choose ‘What has changed in Aboriginal’s history over the past 200 years?’. Given she has heard numerous conversations… Continue Reading