Congratulations to our February issue winners of our fabulous giveways. To see if you've been lucky visit the What's New page.

This month's Schooldays Magazine Award, goes to Miriam Meaney from Kincoppal-Rose Bay in Sydney. An exceptional educator specialising in the ICT with a can-do attitude, she has a remarkable career in and out of school life. If you know an exceptional educator in the school sector, do let us know, via the contact us page.

We know many families love travelling and would love to be able to travel for longer periods of time than just the school holidays. There is a way to travel for up to a year with school aged children. Australia and New Zealand are lucky enough to have distance education support and we've included information about this flexible way of continuing school education while enjoying travelling within, around or away from Australia.

A new section from this issue is, FYI (For your information). Not so much the usual news, but inclusion of interesting educational snippets of news and education information. This section will be updated inbetween publication of each issue, so do keep popping back to the page to see what's happening.

Something else that's new is a project, could be called an art project, but it encompasses and teaches so much more, which can be used in a school classroom or at home. The Heritage Quilt is from esteemed New York artist D. Dorio.

From this issue we start a new series looking at Youth Organisations that play an important part of children's and society's lives. The first youth organisation we report on is the Australian Air League. A must read for parents with children interested in aviation and adventure.

In Australia the Federal Education Minister, Hon Julia Gillard recently released the draf K-10 Australian Curriculum for English, Maths, Science and History for public consultation. The opportunity for feedback is open until 23 May 2010. The draft is now available online. Click here to have your say.

If you are in Adelaide later this month, do go to the Education Expo which is on at the Ridley Centre, at the Adelaide Showgrounds on 20 & 21 March. There will be so much to see and do, great educational resources for teachers and for parents, a hands-on science centre for children and adults, a planetarium, live performances on stage, schools from just about every sector exhibiting, mind games, character building games for adults and children. tertiary colleges and universities, in fact everything educational from early learning to adult learning and just so much more. Entry is free - quite something nowawdays. In Sydney, The Education Expo will be held on 26 & 27 June 2010.

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