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We are honoured to have the opportunity to learn from the oldest cultural storytellers in the world and seek to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners to share their rich culture and perspectives with children in Australia and around the world via stories on screen.

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ACTF Education Highlights: 2017

The ACTF Education Team has enjoyed providing schools, students and teachers with access to unique online events, quality professional learning and relevant curriculum materials throughout 2017.

The Dance Academy Movie and Jeffrey Walker webinars were extremely popular with schools around the country. In particular, students enjoyed the insights into how the actors, producers and directors got their start in the industry and the advice they had for those wanting to follow in their footsteps.

Teachers also embraced the diverse range of face-to-face and virtual professional learning opportunities the ACTF Education Team ran. Highlights included working with the WA Education Department to provide two days of hands-on workshops for primary and secondary teachers, visiting a broad range of schools in South Australia, hearing how teachers Australia-wide were using ACTF resources at the ALEA Conference in Hobart and working with media teachers at the ATOM Queensland Conference to explore how our Little Lunch and MY:24 Apps could be used in the classroom. The online Comedy Scriptwriting Workshops for Upper-Primary Students held over three weeks in both June and August also provided schools with a great structured introduction to the basics of comedy scriptwriting.

Developing quality curriculum resources has been a major priority for 2017 with every episode of Little Lunch and MY:24 mapped to the curriculum, and early in 2018 there will be great new resources available linked to F-2 Music Education and the popular Mustangs FC series.

There will also be a number of exciting new series and programs released in 2018. Stay tuned for specific details early in the new year.

On behalf of the Education Team of Janine Kelly, Lily Pavlovic and Peter Maggs I would like wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to supporting you and your students in 2018 with more webinars, professional learning events and diverse curriculum resources.