Articles tagged ‘Education’.
It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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This summer Castlemaine Art Gallery Kids Summer Program is back with more workshops and more facilitators. Education Facilitator, Kate Stones will be ...
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Music and art are booming at Newstead Primary School (NPS), with a new Roland digital piano recently purchased from generous parent donations, and a n...
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By Andrew McKenna Parents at Footscray City Primary School (FCPS) were shocked when in late October – and without consultation – the Educa...
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From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Chocolat, from romantic gift to guilty indulgence, chocolate has a special place in Western popular culture....
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Relations between India’s JSS University and La Trobe University have strengthened following a recent student exchange visit by students at the Univ...
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Independent Senator for South Australia Nick Xenophon says Federal funding of schools should be conditional on a total ban on commercial marketing to ...
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Is independent media important to you? At Castlemaine Independent we offer an independent, free news service. It’s free to subscribe and we want...
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Dear editor, In May of this year Darryl Coulthard, a board member of Castlemaine Secondary College, invited people on CI to a forum at the college whe...
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The Possible Futures Film Contest, a joint project of FOUR YEARS. GO. and The Pachamama Alliance, received 317 films from film makers in 44 countries ...
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On Wednesday 20 July a special exhibition will be opened by landscape painter Robert Maclaurin at the Castlemaine Art Gallery. For the first time in m...
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The simplest creative classroom activities such as singing, drawing and storytelling have been found to benefit refugee school children. In a study re...
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Maldon and District Community Bank® Branch is funding a $26,000 project designed to understand and reverse the trend of falling enrolments at Maldon...
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‘Student Voice’ is a student-run education conference discussing education in the 21st century. This event aims to gather the views and op...
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Bendigo’s next crop of town planners is in Europe to learn lessons that can be applied to regional Victoria. Andrew Butt, lecturer in Planning at L...
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6 September 2010 By Andrew McKenna ‘We need small town mindsets with our kids. We need to look out for each other’s kids. Child raising needs to b...
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THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF INEQUALITY By Andrew McKenna (9 June 2010) There is a huge contrast between material success and social failure in rich countrie...
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By Craig Watkins* Leadership vision appears to now be present at Castlemaine Secondary College, through Principal Mary McPherson and her team. In many...
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By Darryl Coulthard One of the most seminal pieces of Australian sociology was a piece by RW Connell: Yes Virginia there is a working class. I remembe...
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Council last night voted against rescinding the motion putting Western Reserve forward as the site for the new aquatic facility: in other words, Weste...
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The artworks of two five-year-old students of South Bendigo Kindergarten will feature in an exhibition at the 2011 World Forum on Early Care and Educ...
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We are asking Castlemaine kids to add to the story below by grow the story by sending us more ‘story seeds’ about what you think might hap...
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The story so far: see it here, or read it in more detail here. The second story stem is almost grown. What a surprise!...
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With special thanks to Nada and Libby at Winters Flat PS, and of course the children!...
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Below is the first ‘story stem’ for Small Stories for a Big World, with artwork from students at Winters Flat PS. Have a read and let us k...
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Budding central Victorian politicians can test their skills in future parliamentary oratory in a new competition for secondary students....
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A partnership between Castlemaine Secondary College and the Castlemaine State Festival has given students an opportunity to work with a world renowned...
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A report into the legal risks associated with the use of social networking sites (eg. Facebook, myspace) has found that while 95 per cent of Victorian...
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By Andrew McKenna The Explosive Child came across our desk last week at CI. We asked him to hop off, stop swearing at us and speak nicely or he wouldn...
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An event coming up in the Castlemaine Town Hall will offer a great opportunity for local businesses wanting to foster relationships with potential yo...
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1). REAL READING. No more Whole Word, Sight Words, Dolch Words. No more identifying words by their shapes. No more guessing, picture clues, and functi...
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By Andrew McKenna Castlemaine Secondary College took possession of the old Yapeen Primary School campus site late last year, and there are some grea...
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A Victoria University research team is opening a hi-tech learning club in Footscray for young people with Asperger’s Syndrome after studies sho...
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A lot is known about the associations between a troubled childhood and mental health problems, but little research has examined the affect of a positi...
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Last week, The Sunday Age invited readers to write an 11-line love poem following a form adapted from Japanese syllabic poetry by senior writer John E...
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10 February 2011 Museum Victoria would like to invite you to contribute your ideas to the redevelopment of Melbourne Museum’s Aboriginal Cultural Ce...
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