NAIDOC Week was celebrated at @CurranPS with a smoking ceremony, awards presentation, followed by activities for students to learn about Aboriginal culture. Students completed art, cooking, gardening, sport and storytelling activities. Well done @Wade2Nicole & team for your work!

Year 4 held an 'Eggsibition', so much creativity was displayed with models of eggsercise, eggsterminator, eggspress train, eggshausted and many more! @see_natalie

An estimate is not merely a “guess.” A reasonable estimate depends upon mathematical understandings of both numerosity and measurement. Explore Estimation While Enjoying a Whopper of a Tale! https://t.co/qHpkq6Na1T

Regardless of how high #preschoolers can rote count, a child’s sense of what those numbers actually mean develops gradually. We call this understanding NUMBER SENSE, and it requires relating numbers to real quantities. More: https://t.co/h5yXCUEnUw

"There are three types of student engagement: emotional, behavioral, and cognitive. When students are engaged in all three components, they can learn at their highest capability." https://t.co/shDGa7AiHr

What do you notice? What could we draw in the ? to make a pattern? https://t.co/Lwec0FEt7C

We have talked a lot abut the power of 2 x 10. This article helps explain why. @noiie_bc @kaser_linda Two Times Ten Conversations - Educational Leadership

Great news! Our @primarylearnau English and numeracy courses have been approved as NESA Accredited PD until 31 July 2021 under NESA's interim arrangements. This blog from May 2020 gives some background on the numeracy courses

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How are your students starting off the year with maths? First blog back for 2021 feat. @ATMMathematics @mminas8 @pwharris @DoE_Mathematics to get things started! https://t.co/otcRrJMlDA #primarylearning

Students in small group writing session using @LincEdhero to reflect on their writing goals. We had active engagement and discussion about their writing goals and students even navigated through the app with the teacher 🌟 @TamaraLPollock @Clapturn

“When the teaching of reading is FRAMED as a war, nuance & common areas of agreement are casualties.But worse,our Ss can become innocent victims caught in a no man’s land between those more interested in winning a conflict than in meeting individual needs”

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend that we do.

@Kylie_Adams4 Great article! I wonder how much we really develop “agency” in schools - student, parent, teacher and school based “agency” ? I suspect we talk about it a great deal which is a start. Asking the right questions and ...... listening to the answers.... and acting. Hmmmmm.

The final @E4Ltweets Guidance Report for 2020 is now available! For primary school leaders planning for 2021, 'Improving social and emotional learning in primary schools' provides clear, actionable recommendations to improve SEL in Au Schls #SEL #evidence https://t.co/isbTaP1oh7

It starts with a collective and shared vision 👓 #CaptureCurran Excited to see our students’ vision for our awesome school...watch this space ... #studentagency #lovewhereyoulearn #lovemyjob @CurranPS @NSWEducation @ArtiNaidu80 @EmStirling @Lawrence__Chris @alyse_holmes2 @juscord

A reminder of our recent new, free lessons in data science. I think these would be a great start to the school year, they can be taught online and they help our students become 21st century consumers of the data all around them - access them here: