Category: Primary
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Announcing the Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year 2019
‘Bravery’: Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year 2019. The Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year is a result of an Australia-wide writing competition. Students from Grade Prep to Grade 6 were invited to submit a piece of free writing of up to 500 words based on a chosen word. Students were encouraged to…
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Q & A: Maths teacher Christine Utber
Christine Utber reflects on the difference a maths teacher made to her career, dispels the myth of the ‘maths person’, and discusses why she hates when students say “I don’t get it!” Where do you work and what is your role? I am a mathematics teacher at an all girls independent school on the Mornington…
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Read Write Inc. gains national media attention for its impact on literacy at an NT school
The Read Write Inc. program has been credited for turning students at Tennant Creek Primary School into confident and fluent readers. In an ABC News report, students and teachers spoke about the impact the program had made on their confidence and ability since its introduction last year. The Year 5 students even used their newly…
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There is still value in learning the times tables, even in the smartphone era
By Brian Murray, co-author of Oxford Mathematics At the start of trivia night I recently attended, the organisers requested that all participants’ smartphones should be switched off. This was not because the phones might cause a disturbance, but because those running the quiz could not trust us to resist the temptation to cheat. In this,…
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What the Children’s Word of the Year reveals about the lives of kids in Australia and the UK
What do the words Trump, equality, plastic and creativity have in common? They have all been named Children’s Word of the Year in competitions run by Oxford University Press in the UK and Australia in recent years. The words reveal that children are in touch with the current affairs and social issues of their time,…
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Introducing the Oxford School Partnerships Program, fostering strong relationships between Oxford University Press and Australian schools
Blog post by Sophie Rasic, Primary Publishing, Editorial & Research Coordinator Introducing the Oxford School Partnerships Program, fostering strong relationships between Oxford University Press and schools in Australia Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand (OUP) has launched a new partnership program to formalise our relationship with a number of schools as a part of…
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Oxford resources shortlisted in Educational Publishing Australia Awards
Oxford resources have been resources shortlisted in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary categories of the Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Organised by the Australian Publishers Association and sponsored by the Copyright Agency, the prestigious EPAAs recognise excellence and innovation within the educational publishing industry. We congratulate all who were involved in publishing the shortlisted resources across the…
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Maths for Everyone: Why there is no such thing as a ‘maths person’
‘I’m not a maths person.’ That’s a statement you’ve all probably heard many times. However, the skills that students learn in mathematics are among the most practical taught in school. Mathematics underpins the world we live in and it teaches our children valuable problem-solving skills. Mathematics provides us with a language to explain much of…