BaRT Wangaratta

More up to date information on Hume Region BaRT groups, including contact details, can now be found here:

http://wodongacrtsupportnetwork.blogspot.com.au/p/bart-groups.html

The Beginning and Returning Teachers Network are a great place to meet others starting out as well as CRTs. Both Wodonga and Wangaratta have a BaRT group.
Wangaratta have just announced their next up and coming meeting with all the details.

Details below are copied from an email sent out by Wayne Anderson, Principal of Broken Creek Primary School and co-odinator of the Wangaratta BaRT group.

A heads-up for our next BaRT meeting.
We have booked Linda Anania who will be looking at THINKING SKILLS.
Linda is a well known consultant in the field of thinking skills and mathematics and is keenly sought across the state, so we are really looking forward to her insight into this most important area of the curriculum.

Date: Wednesday 19th August 2009
Venue: Martini's Cafe, Murphy Street, Wangaratta
Time: 5:30 - 7:00pm
Cost: Nil

We hope as many people as possible can make this session as it really is something we need to get our heads around to ensure that we are the most effective teachers we can be.

If you know of a graduate or returning teacher that has begun since the start of this year, please pass this email onto them. We do not have updated records for those who take up positions during the year.

Hope to see you there.

Wayne Anderson (Broken Creek Primary School)
Janine Breadon (Everton Primary School)

Wodonga CRT September Network Meeting

I have lined up Leon Price (ex-Wodonga South) to come in and share some sports games with us. Leon is 'BlueEarth' trained. A large amount of the schools in the area play some sort of BlueEarth games as part of their P.E. sessions.

Leon is going to join as at Wodonga South Primary School's P.E room (where 'Inclusive Games PD' and March meeting was held) from 4pm on Thursday 3rd Septmeber. Gold coin donation to help cover afternoon tea.

So bring along your runners for what will be another great session!

If you are attending please email Mel on beautifulwhiteangel@hotmail.com.

Cluster Meeting

Cluster meetings are held on the third and seventh Tuesday of every term. Next week is week three and it has come at a really good time for the Cluster meeting. "Maths Circles" and the "Questioning of kids in Maths" is the theme for the session with the visiting Kaplan husband and wife team attending the meeting. CRTs are more than welcome to join the cluster meeting.

Date ~ Tuesday 28th July 2009
Place ~ Huon Wodonga Middle Years College
Time ~ 4-5pm

Tuning In To Kids - Emotionally Intelligent Parenting

gatewaycommunityhealth and Baranduda P.S present

'TUNING IN TO KIDS

EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT PARENTING'

A program for parents/carers of children preschool and primary school age that helps you tune into your children's emotions and manage their behaviour.

Learn about 'emotion coaching' helping children to understand and regulate their emotions.

Helps you to respond to your chilren's individual needs in ways that suit the child and the family.

When - Tuesday 4th August ~ 8th September, 2009

(6 sessions)

Time - 6.30~8.30pm

Where - Library, Baranduda Primary School

Cost - $15.00

Childcare - Provided onsite ~ Gold coin donation

Bookings Essential - Contact Baranduda Primary School on 02 60208531

Sue Dengate

Cooinda Family Support Group Inc.
presents a workshops with
Sue Dengate
The Effects of Foods on Children's Behaviour

Author of the best selling Fed Up series
Former teacher and psychology graduate, twice nominated as Australian of the Year, Sue Dengate became interested in food intolerance after recognising the effect of foods on her
own children. In the past 15 years, Sue has spoken to tens of thousands of parents in
Australia, the USA and the UK.
Sue constantly hears from parents: "you touched our lives in an incredible way" and
"we would still be living with an unhappy, difficult child".

Thursday 27th August 2009
Banksia Room
Commerciul CIub (Albury) Ltd
Time: 7.00 pm- 9.00pm
(Registration from 6"30pm)
Cost: $20.00 Family members and Students
($10 for additional family members)
$30.00 Professionals/ Service Providers

RSW: Monday 24th August 2009

Sue's Failsafe Cookbook and DVD Fed Up with Children's Behaviour
will be available for sale at a discounted price, cash or cheque only
(For more information please contact Cooinda on Ph: (02) 60564844)

Sue's tour dates

BAD BEHAVIOUR LINKED TO DIET

Food additives and natural chemicals in foods are a major cause of irritability, restlessness, inattention and sleep disturbance in children according to researcher Sue Dengate.

"Testing for behavioural toxicity should be a part of all food additive safety evaluation, but the Australian food regulator, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, has yet to take this seriously," Ms Dengate said.

Recent research has shown that far more children are affected than parents or authorities realise. Recent study on the Isle of Wight showed that children's behaviour improved when colours and benzoate preservatives were removed, whether the children were hyperactive or not.

Recently, ITV in the UK provided additive-free food for just two weeks to an entire class of 6 year-olds, with 60% improving in behaviour.

This trial was repeated and filmed at Palmers Island Primary School in northern NSW, where parents, teachers and 120 pupils were all convinced of the benefits of avoiding food additives. The results appear on a DVD called "Fed Up with Children's Behaviour".

"It is not just a few who are affected - anybody, adults included, can be affected without realising it," Ms Dengate said.

"If your child is easily annoyed, demanding, argumentative, can't concentrate on reading or homework, is easily distracted, restless, fidgety and can't sit still, or has difficulty settling down to sleep, think food chemicals," said Dengate.

"This is an important public health issue. Effects of food colours on children's behaviour and learning are well documented but other additives are often in healthy staple foods eaten every day. Parents don't even know their children are affected."

Further information is available at http://www.fedup.com.au/

Maths Circles Community Forum

Bob and Ellen Kaplan are working with the Wodonga schools over the next term to help assist teachers and students with developing the understanding and love of mathematics.

This is what Bob and Ellen say about their approach to mathematics.

Mathematics is, like music, one of the great achievements of mankind, yet many people fear or are bored by it. We aim to have everyone understand, enjoy and play it, as they do music, by exploring meaningful problems and inventing their way towards a solution. This approach is called 'Maths Circles'. Instead of telling students facts, we lead them to discover connections themselves, conversationally - and so these discoveries become a part of their way of thinking, rather than forgotten bits of useless formulas.
Each person's competence and confidence increases, along with their pleasure in each other's achievements, as they come to make mathematics their own.

For parents and community members who are interested in finding out more about Maths Circles, Bob and Ellen will run a Community Forum at Wodonga Senior Secondary College - PAK on August 4th from 7-8pm.

Wodonga TaFE Anaphylaxis Training

If you are unable to attend the Baranduda Anaphylaxis Training Session on Tuesday 21st July than Wodonga TaFE might be your next bet. They are holding this session on two days. Details are below.

Anaphylaxis management - 21659VIC
What you learn
This three-hour course in the first aid management of anaphylaxis establishes the essential skills and underpinning knowledge you need to assist a person who is having a severe allergic reaction and anaphylaxis, until medical assistance is available.
How to apply
Apply direct to Wodonga TAFE.
Part-time:
1pm-4pm or 5pm-8pm, 2 September or 9 November 2009 (1 session). Building B, Room B009 (downstairs).
Costs $70

Thanks to Ruth for this information.