Meet Australian Olympian swimmer, Wilhelmina Wylie
Do your students know the story of ‘Mina’ Wylie, one of our first female Olympians?
New release: Windcatcher learning resource
Our latest resource provides sequenced learning tasks to complement and extend a class or cohort screening of the feature film, Windcatcher.
Coming soon to cinemas: Runt film adaptation
Written by Craig Silvey and illustrated by Sara Acton, the novel Runt was published in 2022 and was named the 2023 Book of the Year for Younger Readers by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Australian schools will soon have the chance to enjoy this story on screen.
NSW Year 9 English unit: ‘Exploring the Speculative’
The New South Wales Department of Education has featured episodes of the comedy-horror series Crazy Fun Park in resources designed for the Year 9, Term 4 program 'Exploring the Speculative'.
ACTF welcomes additional funding and new Board member
It has been an eventful month for the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) with the announcement of additional funding, a meeting with the federal Minister for the Arts, and a new Board member appointed by the Federal Government.