Fabric Dyeing with Plants – exploring a new skill
I love learning, and practical skills give me the chance to create something concrete and tangible. Join garden historian and environmentalist, Jen Quealey to learn and work with natural plant […]
Creating a Response – Judith Wright’s The Surfer
For our first text of the new Stage 6 syllabus module The Craft of Writing, I chose to implement a strategy suggest by Felicity Plunkett and approach Judith Wright’s The Surfer creatively. […]
Young Writers’ Day 2018
This year, two teachers accompanied six students in two cars for the hour long journey up the Hume Highway to the Campbelltown Campus of the University of Western Sydney. An […]
Zines, Zines, Everywhere and just so much to read
Organised by Molly from Sandwich Press Zines, the Zine There, Done That Fair attracted local creatives and people from Sydney and Melbourne. I travelled to Austinmer on a fine spring day to […]
Heroine’s Festival of Women’s Writing – Part 2
The preamble for the second panel of the festival contained a quote from French writer Monique Wittig who wrote in her 1960s feminist sci-fi classic There was a time when […]
Heroines Festival of Women’s Writing – Part 1
This wonderfully informative and entertaining day featured authors discussing their inspiration and process for writing historical fiction. Heroines Festival Director Dr Sarah Nicholson opened the afternoon by introducing the first panel, […]
Moss Vale Tales – mapping our stories
Inspired by our Kick Off with Reading text, Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan, students and teachers at Moss Vale High School have shared their stories at each of our […]
Writing Teachers – Kilgour Prize at Newcastle Art Gallery
Unfortunately, the ETA Writing Teachers meeting set down for Saturday, August 25, has been cancelled. Here you will find an image of the artwork and activities that would have taken […]
English Concept Research Project (Part 2)
Central to the incorporation of English textual concepts are the learning processes which textual concepts like ‘point of view’ aim to foster – and can foster: Connecting (eg. between different modes of expression, […]
English Concept Research Project – an insight (Part 1)
A welcome addition to the ETA (English Teachers Association) regular plenary was the PD event delivered by Professor Theo van Leeuwen and Dr Mary Macken-Horarik to directors, committee members and […]
