Education & Schooling

2012 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge: books on iPad and Kindle from Prep – Grade 2 list

April 28, 2012

The note came home at the beginning of last term about the 2012 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, we’ve participated for the last three years and the girls have always enjoyed discovering new books. This year our library shelves were sadly bare of books on the challenge list. I do believe word has gotten out about [...]

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The Game of Chance Fundraiser

November 1, 2011
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To celebrate Melbourne Cup Day I thought I’d write about Game of Chance fundraisers for schools and preschools.   First up the easy to organise “Guess how many X is in the jar” fundraiser – be it Easter Eggs at Easter or jelly beans or some other fun item Fill a jar with your item [...]

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Homework Woes

September 15, 2011
Homework

We had a homework challenge last week. Annie came home with one page of homework, in place of the usual two or more pages. She completed the mathematics section at the top easily enough. But then she refused to complete the second part of the homework. It took me ages to work out what the [...]

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Win a One Year Subscription to Alphabet Soup Magazine to Celebrate 5 Years of Stuff With Thing

September 7, 2011
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Happy Birthday to Stuff With Thing.   5 Years Old this week. To celebrate I’ve got 5 days worth of giveaways. I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who has visited, read, left a comment on the blog, facebook or twitter. Thank you. Each giveaway is carefully chosen to represent different [...]

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Fundraising Ideas – Themed Days

August 29, 2011

Not all Parent Club activities are about raising lots of money for school fundraising. Some are about increasing school morale and school spirit. One of my (and my girls) all time favourite fundraisers is the ‘Footy Pie Day’. Students get to dress up in their footy team colours for a gold coin donation (for those [...]

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Easy Fundraising Ideas – Bring and Buy Table

August 15, 2011

This particular idea came from our School Principal and I think it is brilliant. We have set up a table in the school office foyer, parents can bring in items they would like to donate: Maybe your lemon tree was extra productive this year, donate some fruit to sell. Aunty Mable gave you some soaps [...]

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Easy Fundraising Ideas – 5 Cent Drive

August 8, 2011

Fundraising for school, preschools and other organisations can be lots of work but I’ve got some ideas to share that are fairly easy to implement and don’t require vast amounts of time or money to achieve, this week we have: 5 cent drive. Did you know a 2 liter soft drink bottle holds approximately $150 [...]

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You Shall Not Pass! because I am rocking the pink haired Gandalf role….

August 4, 2011

or the post in which Marita proves herself a total Lord of the Rings Geek I’ve volunteered at our school office for the last week, our school receptionist is away sick, so another mum from Parent Club and I are helping out answering the phones and being the face behind the reception desk. Being an [...]

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Fundraising for School and Preschool

June 30, 2011

I’ve been helping out a bit recently with fundraising at school, so I dusted off  the info I had on file from my time as fundraising co-ordinator at kinder.  I only helped for half a year at Kinder before my health took a nose dive and FIL got his lung cancer diagnosis and I resigned [...]

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Autism, Aspergers and Homework …

May 20, 2011

I know I forgot it was Friday…. my brain it is messed up, I know it is the medication change that is doing that. Thankfully I also know this post is all about things I know about homework so that works as a things I know post …. My girls both receive homework, they are [...]

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