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Over the years we’ve heard from many schools that the Write a Book in a Day competition is a collaborative activity that students love to participate in. The competition can be completed online or in person.

Register your team or teams now for Term 3 and watch your students thrive in an activity that encourages:

• literacy development
• problem-solving skills and
• lasting community impact through support of childhood cancer research

Please click here to register.

Your team(s) will have until Wednesday 30 September to write and illustrate their books. If you have any questions, please contact the Write a Book in a Day team on 02 8394 7711 or [email protected].

As part of the release of our new Sun and UV at School classroom resources in September, the Cancer Institute NSW will launch a Sun and UV at School Challenge for NSW schools.

Separate primary and secondary school challenges will encourage K–to10 students to work individually or in groups to solve real-world problems linked to skin cancer prevention. They will be tasked with demonstrating how to best protect themselves, their friends, and the wider community from the harmful effects of the sun.

Inquiry and project-based learning is at the core of this initiative. Students will build on existing ideas of what it means to be sun safe and develop contemporary solutions to shade provision. The challenge draws on the new classroom resources’ learnings and activities and the objectives, content, skills and outcomes of the aligned K–to10 PDHPE and Science syllabuses.

For more information please click here.

Established in 2013, St. Merkorious Charity is a local, not for profit charity assisting those in need of financial support. We currently provide over 4,000 nutritious meals a week to individuals and families who are financially stressed the elderly, disabled and the homeless.

We provide cooked nutritious meals for those that are unable to cook (mainly the homeless, elderly and disabled), and fresh and dry hampers for those that can cook for themselves but are unable to afford essential items.

Recently we have also joined Bass Hill High School’s Breakfast Club in supporting them to provide nutritious breakfast and lunch meals for those students who are going without. This is turning out to be a huge success in benefiting the students to start of their day right. As you know that running a charity involves a lot of different activities, which is why we are reaching out to teachers all over Sydney who would like to volunteer their time for a wonderful cause.

All our volunteers feel a great amount of satisfaction when they volunteer with us.

Please call St. Merkorious Charity on 0478 760 450 or email [email protected] for more information or if any teachers would like to spend even a few hours as a volunteer. It will be one of the most fulfilling things they have ever done.

Due to COVID-19, NAIDOC Week Initiatives have extended the closing date for student’s entries to coincide with the new national NAIDOC dates 8-15 November.

Please click here for the entry form for the 2020 NAIDOC Week School Initiatives.

Young Australians studying Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) are encouraged to apply for the newly launched Australian Defence Force (ADF) Future Innovators Award.
The award is a cash prize that encourages Year 10 and Year 12 high school students in their STEM pursuits, and recognises their innovative talents.

For more information please click here.

The Anzac Memorial is excited to launch its Remote Learning Program with a range of online learning modules for primary and secondary students. Guided by a team of actors and educators, each module utilises drama and storytelling to explore the Memorial’s art and architecture, its unique collection of objects and artefacts and the Australian experience of the First World War.

The modules are designed for flexible delivery in the classroom or at home and are now available to order free of charge until the end of Term 3, 2020.

Click here for more information.

A new website has been launched by SNAICC-National Voice for our Children for the upcoming National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day (4 August). It features background information, merchandise, ways to get involved, downloadable resources, activities and a visual showcase of how the day has been celebrated in the past. Discover more here.

Primary school aged children across Australia are encouraged to start incorporating regular walking back into their daily routine with the Pedestrian Council of Australia announcing National Walk Safely to School Day has been rescheduled to Friday 11 September 2020 following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.

National Walk Safely to School Day is a community initiative that aims to raise awareness of the health, road safety, transport and environmental benefits that regular walking (especially to and from school) can provide for the long term well-being of our children. Apart from the physical benefits, regular walking also has a favourable impact on their mental health and academic performance.

The national initiative also promotes improved diets (by asking schools and P&Cs to Host a Healthy Breakfast), positive environmental action, better use of public transport with reduced car-dependency and the vitally important road safety message: “Until they are 10, children must always hold the hand of an adult when crossing the road”.

It also encourages parents and carers to walk more, reducing dangerous traffic congestion around schools, while minimising the risk of Australian children developing heart disease and diabetes.

For more information please click here.

Register for Fruit & Veg Month now! 

Don’t leave it too late. Hardcopy resources are strictly limited and are being sent out to registered schools now.

What do participating schools say about the event?

“Fantastic resources and an absolutely amazing initiative and my school loves participating in it every year. I continually have parents coming up to me and commenting on the change in their children and their willingness to attempt more fruit and vegetables at school and at home.”

Fruit & Veg Month is a primary school health promotion event funded by NSW Health.

The event will be held during the last 4 weeks of Term 3, Monday 31 August to Friday 25 September.

For more details on Fruit & Veg Month, and to fill out the quick and easy online registration form, go to:

www.healthy-kids.com.au/teachers/fruit-veg-month/

One Day In January – a summer intensive for young ATSI orchestral musicians will be held in Melbourne from Jan 23 – 25 and led by Yorta Yorta composer Professor Deborah Cheetham AO. ODIJ is Australia’s only Indigenous led orchestral music program. This scholarship is open to ATSI musicians studying an orchestral instrument and will cover:

– Participation in the One Day In January project
– All tuition during the intensive
– Travel and accomodation*

Selection Criteria:

1. You must be an active member of your local ATSI community eg. participates regularly in community activities such as, but not limited to, traditional dance group, traditional language studies, art and music group or sporting team

2. Further to point 1 the Scholarship application form must be accompanied by a letter of introduction from a local registered ATSI organisation from the place of residence.

3. Age range 14 – 25

4. Currently studying an instrument with at least 2 years experience

5. Available to travel to Melbourne in January 2021.

6. If you are under 18 years of age at the time of the intensive travel will be provided for 1 parent or guardian to attend. No additional siblings.

7. 18+ will be expected to travel unaccompanied and be accommodated at Quest apartments in Southbank with a staff member from SBO or fellow participant
Benefits:

This Scholarship, valued at up to $1500, will provide the recipient with an opportunity to study with some of Melbourne’s finest musicians in a culturally empowering environment.

This Scholarship will help to develop a pathway for the recipient into Short Black Opera’s new ATSI Orchestra – Ensemble Dutala.

Ensemble Dutala
Ensemble Dutala emerges from Short Black Opera’s One Day in January project, established in 2019 and is designed to increase the visibility and status of professional ATSI orchestral musicians in Australia. Inspired by the language of Prof. Cheetham’s grandmother, the Yorta Yorta word Dutala, meaning Star Filled Sky, was the inspiration for this new ensemble

For more information please click here.

The NSW Department of Education and NSW Education Standards Authority have officially launched ARTEXPRESS Virtual 2020.

Please click here to explore the interactive website. We welcome you to share the invitation with your colleagues, friends and family.

If you have any questions please contact the ARTEXPRESS team at [email protected].