Articles tagged ‘Education’.

Holiday reading: ‘How you gonna learn anything if you’re stuck in school all day?’
Viable, enriching, legal and happening in Castlemaine By Emma Lewis - published 16 April 2010 While many families are washing and ironing school unifo...
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Free Tertiary Education A Goal Worth Fighting For
Treasury costings show that the Australian Greens’ policy of universal free tertiary education is within reach if the Federal Government has the...
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Castlemaine North School sings
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Castlemaine North PS sing this week for Castlemaine and the world. This project is about every single student having the opportunity to hear themselve...
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Cybersafety Session for Parents
Castlemaine Police are currently involved in presenting Cyber Safety presentations to Schools and the community, being run by Leading Senior Constable...
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Neuroscience up a tree – or taking your brain for a walk in the park
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This news changes everything By Rita McInnes Yesterday I saw Dan Siegel up a giant fig tree in Treasury Gardens. For those of you who don’t know Dan...
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Walk safely to school day
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Today was ‘walk safely to school day’ promoted by the Pedestrian Council of Australia. Parents of the Castlemaine Steiner School organised...
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The parents’ choir
By Arabella Davison 19 October We’ve chosen a really gorgeous song to be sung as a gift to our children, about celebrating difference and ac...
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Brain power in the body
By Andrew McKenna Associate Professor Dennis Hemphill, the Head of School, Sport and Exercise Science at Victoria University, says sport is regarded a...
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Over the Moon dance performance
The anual Over the Moon dance performance is on this weekend at the Phee Broadway Theatre, Castlemaine. Edna Reinhardt’s school performs works b...
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Shoulder to shoulder parenting
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 be shifted back to...
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My God, you’re here from Planet Boring
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By Andrew McKenna ‘Dear Dr Michael, at times I think my son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.’ This was in a letter Dr Michael Carr-Gr...
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Sustainable tourism is here
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More than 350 people visited Castlemaine on Saturday for the State of Design Festival Open House Day. The day was a partnership between Mount Alexande...
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Sister school agreement with Indonesian school signed at CSC
It was an historic moment in Castlemaine’s education history this week when a sister-school partnership was signed with CSC and SMAN3 Tangerang Sel...
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The end of the age of testosterone?
By Andrew McKenna It’s goodbye shipbuilding, real estate, coal, steelworks, machinery, and hello social work, teaching, psychology and healing arts....
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Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light
By Andrew McKenna ‘They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.’ Nathaniel Lee, 1684 At the recent Communit...
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Castlemaine Independent’s great!
‘Castlemaine Independent’s great! I made it my homepage!’ (A quote like that couldn’t be let go. Arabella wins ... I don’t know, a free subscription? Any suggestions?
Castlemaine Independent’s great!...
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In case you missed it: What do our babies need, all 4kg of them? Us.
By Emma Lewis* This is an extraordinary piece of writing, and worth reading in case you missed it. – ed. Most babies in our society are born con...
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