Archives for April 2020

Establish a flexible learning space: Encourage your child(ren) to choose an area that allows them to feel engaged in their learning. Set clear expectations about how and when a space is used. Be creative and crafty with the space. Promote independence: Have frequent check-in points, but allow your child to explore their learning, fail, succeed, and persevere. […]

Traditional ANZAC biscuits are a staple of ANZAC Day. This Healthy ANZAC Biscuit recipe by Teresa Cutter from THEHEALTHYCHEF.COM provides a great way to spend time with the kids. Ingredients: 100 g (1 cup) rolled oats 75 g (1 cup) desiccated coconut 125 g (1 cup) wholemeal spelt flour 1/4 cup coconut sugar or rapadura sugar 60 ml […]

Making playdough, whether for yourself or as a gift for someone else, is lots of fun. Here is a simple recipe. Ingredients: 110g cooking salt 1 tbsp cream of tartar 290 ml boiling water (boil this in your kettle before you start) 330g (3 cups) plain flour (and keep a little extra for at the […]

There are few things more fulfilling than harvesting your own crop of vegetables from your own garden. Before you start, however, check with mum or dad where in the garden you could do this. If you already have a garden bed you can use, then this will be easy. If you have to build one […]

Each year, Canberra Grammar School Year 12 students participate in the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave. This year, despite having to complete the shave at home, students feel that it is more important than ever to support those in need and to show solidarity. We spoke to some of the Year 12 students participating in […]

Living in a time of a global pandemic is a once in a hundred-year occurrence and what you are doing, feeling, and living with now is unique and will be profoundly interesting to you (and even others) in the future. So why not document this time with either a scrapbook, a journal or a time […]