As swimming lessons return across the country post COVID, the Australian Swim Schools Association would like to share the following tips for parents preparing for their children's first swimming lessons. While swimming lessons can start for babies from as young as eight weeks old, the most...
Research from Camp Australia, the nation’s largest provider of Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), has found children in Australia’s most locked down states – ACT, NSW and Vic – have been most impacted by the pandemic. These findings have highlighted the need to support young...
Ruth Jeanes, Justen O’Connor, Dawn Penney, Ramon Spaaij, Dr Jonathan Magee, Dr Eibhlish O’Hara and Lisa Lymbery, report on the need for informal sport opportunities in Australia Statistics show a continued decline in organised sport participation over the past decade, with the Intergenerational Review of Australian...
Even more kitchen and garden goodness in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program for Early Childhood Perfect for little hands and curious minds, the Kitchen Garden Program for Early Childhood is a play-based, hands-on program that helps teach children about fresh, seasonal, delicious food. Setting up the program is...
Australia’s leading use of digital technologies in youth mental health services could help inform Australia’s Privacy Act review, with lessons for mental health services along the way Researchers Dr Piers Gooding, Dr Rys Farthing and Emily Painter report that in 2018, a Melbourne high school mistakenly...
February 8th 2022 is Safer Internet Day, eSafety are calling on everyone to play it safe and fair online. There are lots of great ideas to be found when you go to the government website where the eSafety's education and training team has created a range...
Teachers looking for pen pals to encourage literacy should look at the Australia Post's brand-new Education Hub which brings many curriculum-aligned resources together to help their students discover the joy of letter writing through its popular Pen Pal Club. The Pen Pal Club is open year-round...
Researcher Fatemeh Aminpour, reports that conflict is one of the main barriers to children’s play during school recess. Here are 6 school design tips to keep the peace Research has found students experience an average of one conflict at recess every three minutes. My own research shows...
by Julia Collins Many of us could happily fold a paper crane, yet few feel confident solving an equation like x³ – 3 x² – x + 3 = 0, to find a value for x. Both activities, however, share similar skills: precision, the ability to follow an...
What can parents do? Tim Olds, Amanda Watson and Carol Maher have some suggestions. The sun’s shining and there’s a trampoline in the backyard. Yet your kids want to spend their summer holidays lying on the couch playing computer games all day. So what can you do to...
