One lucky NSW school has just received almost 100 books for their school library from schooldaysmagazine.com. 

These are the books that are reviewed on these pages. They are all in pristine, new condition ready for prirmary school children to enjoy and learn the wonderful stories, boosting their vocabulory and knowledge through reading.

 Over the years, books have been donated to several schools with just 11 students to over 1000, community groups and to help restart a library when it was lost in bushfires.

You can help keep this going by using the links in the book reviews to purchase books, it helps to keep this website live.All the work on this site is done volunatarily.

Free training sessions for people working or volunteering in child-related organisations in NSW.

SAFE Series Protective-behaviours Program; Child Safe Reporting: Creating a Reporting Culture; Developing a Child Safe Risk Management Plan; Child Safe Reporting Obligations and Processes;

Developing a Child Safe Risk Management 

More information go to the Office of the Children's Guardian website.

Celibrating Australia’s - and the world’s – Smartfone Flick Fest (SF3) enters its spectacular 10th year.

SF3 has welcomed thousands of films from over 80 countries the past decade, with entrants ranging in age from 5 to 76. 

This year’s fest is set to be the biggest yet, with a slew of super cool masterclasses, partnerships and – as ever – rich prizes in their dozens up for grabs.

Submissions close on 1 September. 

The live festival screenings will again be held in the City of Sydney over the weekend of 15-17 November.

Two new awards make their debut too: Best Social Media Video; and the – controversial! – AI Best Film Award – which must be written by a human writer, but may be made using Artificial Intelligence technologies

More than $50,000 worth of prizes are on offer including Black Magic Design gear, rigs, mics, apps, iPads, cash prizes & more.

For more informatrion and to enter see the Smart Phone Flickfest website 

The Childrens Advocate launched the Postcards to the Advocate - the report, based on feedback from hundreds of children and young people about their hopes for their future.

The engagement initiative, Postcards to the Advocate, was announced during Children’s Week 2022, with postcards sent to or­ganisations that expressed interest in participating. Children and young people were able to share their hopes for the future through drawings or writing. 

Pop onto the Advoate for Children's website for more information about this program.

Agent C is a new project led by All Together Now focusing on online conspiracy theories and fake news. 

The aim of Agent C is to develop specialised training with and for young people in order to challenge divisive and hateful conspiracy theories and fake news. This includes but is not limited to far-right extremist conspiracy theories and fake news narratives. 

The aim is  to enhance the confidence and capacity of young people aged 14-21 to unpack and critically engage with hateful conspiracy theories and fake news and to have stimulating conversations with their peers encouraging critical thinking.

 For more information and participation visit the All Together Now website

Do get fed up with trying to think of healthy meals to make that are delicious and easy to prepare?

I have been creating healthy and delicious meals for many years and so many people ask me for the recipes. So now, I am going to share a few here, togther with inofrmation about health, nutrition and living well,

Make sure you are in the loop and I will send you a note once it's up and ready to go. Simpy click on this link to join my email notifications. That's it!

As most people are aware there are several warnings and thoughts about the overuse of mobile devices before going to bed. So how many of us can relate to this new research from Flinders University in Adelaide, which has shown that using a mobile device can be a helpful distraction from negative thoughts positively affecting teenagers’ ability to get to sleep? Continue reading

Imagine hating going to school or having a phobia attending to school. According to this article this is a growing trend but one school in Melbourne is changing this around and changing lives. It's a good news story. Kaylee was 'drowning' at school and hated going, but now she loves it. Welcome to the academy designed for the disengaged, click here to read on the ABC

Expanding its curriculum-aligned education program, Endless Discovery,  the Puffing Billy railway in Victoria now invites students from Foundation to VCE on board the discovery train with the addition of three new programs and a virtual excursion experience. 

The programs are designed for student’s learning journeys in engineering and technology, encouraging young minds to learn outside the classroom through the unique history of a century-old heritage steam railway. 

Honing students’ skills in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and Humanities, the new programs aim to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and inventors through the steam locomotive, a mode of transport which gave the world many of the technological advances we benefit from today. 

The three new guided programs offered include:

• Maths in Motion – Year 5 – Year 8
• Puffing Billy Railway Pathways – Year 9 – Year 10 
• Sustainable Tourism at the Railway – VCE (Year 11, Geography)

You will fnd more information on these STEM opportunties on the Puffing Billy website.

The transition to high school means there are big changes a coming for your teen. 

You can help ease any worries your child may have by preparing them before Term 1 begins. Dr Selina Samuels, Chief Learning Officer at Cluey Learning shows you how. Read More 

Can what we eat affect how well our memory works. Your friend’s address. A family holiday as a child. The name of that lady you see at work every day. Memory is our ability to recall information from the recent or distant past. But can what we eat affect how well it works? Continue Reading on the BBC