Education News

In the four-part series First Day, transgender girl Hannah navigates the challenges that come with starting high school, and finds the courage to live as her most authentic self. Discover learning tasks centred on inclusivity, identity, relationships, and wellbeing in our latest resource.

Our online resource, Dance Academy: Arts Education, supports middle years educators with engaging classroom activities, designed to enhance students' knowledge, skills and understanding of dance, as both an artist and audience.

The 2020 My Place Competition asks students to tell the story of their own ‘place' during this historically significant time. Teachers, learn more about this national creative writing competition on Thursday 28 May.

Our popular creative writing competition for students is back - with a twist! In 2020, we ask children: tell us about your place.

Every year on 26 May, Australians acknowledge the mistreatment of Aboriginal people, particularly those belonging to the Stolen Generations and their families. In the My Place episode ‘Laura', one girl reflects on how policies of forced child removal affected her own family members.

Learning tasks in The Inbestigators Teaching Toolkit will help Year 3-6 students to better comprehend the mystery genre, teaching them to read and think like a detective.

A quick snapshot of freely available ACTF resources that can be used for online learning.

The ACTF continues to support educators during this period of remote teaching. Keep students engaged and learning with our quality kids' content and tasks from our curriculum-mapped resources.

This April 30, the ACTF will host a short, 15 minute webinar providing teachers with a quick snapshot of free resources that can be used for online learning.

The award-winning short film First Day (2017) tells the story of 12-year old transgender girl Hannah starting secondary school. Hannah's story is explored further in the new four-part series First Day, now available in the ACTF Shop.