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International Children's Book Day

'Feasting on Literature' (PDF download) - 2 pm, Saturday 6 April

Occupational Therapy - Teachers Professional Development

The following are links to downloadable .PDF documents:

Occupational Therapy - Fact Sheets

  • 'Building Grip & Pincer Strength in the Classroom' - Children who have weak grip and pincer strength are likely to have difficulty with activities that require pinching or maintaining grasp, such as holding a pencil, but this can be alleviated by completing activities for only a few minutes each day in your classroom.
  • 'In-Hand Manipulation in the Classroom' - In-hand manipulation refers to the ability to use the fingers and thumb of one hand to adjust and manipulate an object after grasping it. With practice, children can develop the small muscles in their palm and fingers to help them move objects around within the hand itself.
  • 'Liberating Left Handers' - It is important not to think of being left handed as 'wrong'. Being left-handed means your child will have to make some adaptations and adjustments to the right handed world they live in, but trying to change their hand dominance can cause long term damage.

Careers

Career Bullseye posters

English and ESL

Sport and Advertising – a unit of work focusing on critical literacy for middle years students, written by the Northern Territory Department of Education and Training, in conjunction with Education Tasmania (NT Curriculum Framework documents)

HSIE

ANZAC landing at Gallipoli interactive website

PD/H/PE

Hand hygiene news and educational materials
The Better Health Channel – excellent health and lifestyle resources from the Victorian Government’s Department of Health

Science

AMPS – Australian Multimedia for Physics website. HSC Physics worksheets, lesson plans and videos
Science Alliance at the University of Sydney
The Better Health Channel – excellent health and lifestyle resources from the Victorian Government’s Department of Health
UniServe Science teaching resources for K-12

Other resources

Careers

Talk to our students at The University of Sydney
Information for Career Advisers

Regular on-campus events

Sydney Conservatorium of Music Chamber Music Ensembles
Sydney Conservatorium of Music Lunchbreak Concerts
Sydney Ideas FREE Public Lecture Series

Social Inclusion News and Information

Equity 101
Contextual factors that influence the achievement of Australia’s Indigenous students: Results from PISA 2000-2006
Cultural and social inclusion: what are they key issues?
Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students
School Site University Compacts
The secret to being a successful school in a disadvantaged setting
Trends in young participation in higher education: core results for England