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Letting Children Lead The Learning

The project around the Trivia Night was based on investigating ‘faith’. We picked up from where the kids had left off the year before, looking at how things had changed through time. From there, we moved onto examining how ideas change the world.

Why Read to Older Children?

Parents are frequently the focus of media and academic reports linking academic success or failure to a child’s home life. This is particularly true in debates on learning literacy. Scholastic recently published the seventh edition of Kids And Family Reading Report which made the case that parents should continue reading aloud to children beyond the … Read more

A Journey Worth Making

As the principal of Wooranna Park Primary School, Ray Trotter has guided the school through some remarkable changes since 1997. Today the school commands international attention for its on-going effort to aim towards ‘next practice’ for meeting the needs of its students. His paper “One School’s Journey To Create A New Education Paradigm”, written originally for an education journal, is the first part of an ebook being developed through our educational service known as ‘The School Story Experience’. Its purpose is to enable schools to authentically share the epic journeys that take place pedagogically-speaking every day. Ray’s paper sets the project off on a great start.

School leaders focus on well-being

From all reports in the media, school leaders are totally focused on their students’ well-being in the pandemic crisis. The initial shock has now morphed into staying safe and watching the wreckage globally. And as I live in Melbourne, stories circulating about frontline workers now have new urgency through Stage 4 restrictions. Though far less … Read more

The Da Vinci Centre Story

There’s this big disparity between people coming from Spain to see us and people down the road not even knowing we exist. If we passionate about changing the way things are taught then we need people to know what we’re doing.