NEWSLETTERS
In our Newsletters you will find updates about the Professional Learning Programme, facilitators, curriculum resources, and current and upcoming events. Please email us with feedback about this Newsletter or if you have anything to share in the next PrimaryConnections newsletter
- Seasons Greetings
- Academy welcomes Nobel prize winner’s donation to PrimaryConnections
- Professional Learning
- Curriculum
- Awards, Events and Media Updates
- Unit distribution figures
- The Future of PrimaryConnections
- Professional Learning
- Curriculum
- Awards, Events and Media Updates
- Unit distribution figures
- Sydney office
- Professional Learning
- Curriculum
- Awards, Events and Media Updates
- Professional learning
- Professional learning roles
- PLF recall days – Sydney/Adelaide/Perth
- Master facilitator training
- Professional Learning Facilitator (PLF) Training, 11-13 October 2010, Canberra
- Awards, Events, Media Updates
- South Australia and Primary Connections
- QUT Award
- South Africa Keynote
- Paris
- Resources
- Trial units update
- Unit distribution figures
- Professional Learning
- Trialling of new units in 2010
- Unit distribution figures – almost 300,000
- Seasons Greetings
- PLF Recall Days
- Two new PrimaryConnections research reports
- Maylands Peninsula and PrimaryConnections
– increasing engagement, attendance and achievement for all students!!! - Unit distribution figures – almost 200,000…
- PrimaryConnections Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in Africa
- PrimaryConnections (2009-2011) Stage 4
- Introduction to PrimayConnections workshops for ACT Primary Schools
- More than 176,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia
- PrimaryConnections school wins top Eureka prize
- PrimaryConnections again short-listed for the 2009 Australian Awards for Excellence in
Educational Publishing
- PrimaryConnections goes to the Top End
- More than 140,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia and overseas
- Terese Rein visits PrimaryConnections
- Science Teachers Association of Queensland: Science is Primary conference
- In July 2008, Acting Education Minister, The Hon Brendan O'Connor, announced ongoing funding for PrimaryConnections.
- In excess of 900 Curriculum Leaders Australia wide have been trained in partnership with State jurisdictions and their associated PLFs.
- More than 100,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia and overseas.
- The new Indigenous Perspectives Report and DVD has now been published.
- A 'pilot' unit (Plants in action) with the embedded Draft Indigenous Perspectives has been developed and is currently being trialled.
- PrimaryConnections releases the eighth published unit in the suite, It's electrifying.
- More than 60,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia and overseas.
- PrimaryConnections shortlisted for Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing
for 2007. - More than 40,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia and overseas.
- Almost 300 trained professional learning facilitators located Australia-wide to conduct a range
of professional learning.
- A further 120 PrimaryConnections Professional Learning Facilitators are trained in Canberra in January 2007.
- Three new PrimaryConnections curriculum resource units are published and available for sale from January 2007.
- Minister for Education Science and Training Julie Bishop announces a $1m Awards for Excellence scheme for Australian Universities who incorporate PrimaryConnections into their pre-service primary education courses.
- PrimaryConnections wins the 2006 Australian Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing in the Primary Teaching and Learning category.
- Federal Minister for Science, Education and Training, Julie Bishop formally announces $3 million funding for Stage 3 of the PrimaryConnections project.
- The second Professional Learning Facilitator workshop will be held in Canberra from 17–19
January 2007.
- PrimaryConnections is shortlisted for Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing
for 2006. - Four PrimaryConnections curriculum resource units are published and available for sale.
- Eighty-eight PrimaryConnections professional learning facilitators are trained and are available
to conduct professional development for schools.