2 July 2024
After 14 years of wonderful service, this website is retiring. The new site looks similar, but has bigger images, is more intuitive and for teachers, it will be useful to have a copy of every enquiry you make emailed to you and lots of other cool stuff. We hope you like it.
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29 June 2024
Image: #National Science Week in Schools Live & Online,PerformEducation, incursion (Nat)
Looking for the right show to enhance student learning? Simply Search our extensive offer of events for schools nationwide. Search by postcode, year level or curriculum area - or all three! (Note our online options have a title that begins with an hashtag #).
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27 June 2024
If in Sydney, why not celebrate and increase students' understanding by going to the excellent Refugee Diaries at the Seymour Centre in late October/early November?
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22 June 2024
Happy Term 2 holidays to Qld and NT.
First of 2 weeks of sleep-ins!
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17 June 2024
This started in 2022, with the aim of stopping hate and spreading a message of peace and inclusion. It recognises critical thinking and media literacy are key to challenging hate-promoting narratives. Teachers are vital in the development of these skills in students.
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13 June 2024
After 14 years, we've built a new website for your delectation. Coming soon!
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13 June 2024
Imagine a bout between a Cassowary and an Emu - two left overs from the dinosaur era.They are two of the three largest prehistoric birds left on the planet.
How do they match up? Well the Cassowary is heavier, it's claws extremely powerful and it's very protective of it's territory. It would easily win.
But what would it win? It would win a one on one match up with an emu. But what of the sister species vs sister species? The emu is the hands down winner for adaptability. It roams the country, in fact the only territory it doesn't like is the dense rainforest preferred by the cassowary. That environment is getting smaller. In contrast, the emu's adaptability to a range of environments plus its speed makes it a brilliant survivor.
Recall the Great Emu War of 1932. Australian military personel were employed to mow emus down with machine guns to reduce numbers on pastoral land. The emus outran and outmanoevred all attempts to control them. Go emus!
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12 June 2024
Better hurry! We have great Book Week shows available in every state - have a look here.
Missed out? in Victoria? Go tangent - Tricky Nick Gets Booked our own magician and general debunker, Nicholas Johnson (image above)
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11 June 2024
Arts and Culture are within the General Division category. Of the 737 honours awarded, 493 recipients were within the General Division (the other 33% are military and public service recipients).
But of those 493 recipients, a paltry 43 were awarded in the area of arts and culture (including architecture, libraries and community arts groups). That is just 9% of all award recipients. Even worse, only 17 of those are full- time professional artists, the others were recognised for philanthropic or community service.
However, these Honours are driven by peer nominations, so the flaw with this list lies largely with the sector itself. What has happened to arts and artists since the pandemic?
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10 June 2024
Enoy!!
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6 June 2024
Of course, this depends which state/territory you're in. Term 2 hols begin variously from 21 June - 5 July, but nonetheless, they're in sight and now is definitely the time to get in any enquiries about events for Term 3 & 4.
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