Posts Tagged ‘education
Beowulf in the Centre
Class four kids at the Alice Springs Steiner School have walked into a great adventure at the beginning of their final school term for 2010 this week. Steiner teacher Noel Ferry customarily spends a weekend at the end of each term preparing the class blackboard for the next term’s main lesson, this time centred about the Beowulf legend. The children meet a new story, chosen to suit whatever stage in their development they have reached in their growth. The two halves of the blackboard open ...Read more
Make us send our kids to school
The principal of the Territory’s only independent school says he and his board believe the NT Government is taking the wrong tack in getting rid of bilingual education and should instead be forcing parents to send their kids to school. In a frank interview with Alice Oline, Ken Langford-Smith talks about why the school is committed to “two-way education” more than 25 years after it began....Read more
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