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In our Newsletters you will find updates about the Professional Learning Programme, facilitators, curriculum resources, and current and upcoming events. Please email us with feedback about this Newsletter or if you have anything to share in the next PrimaryConnections newsletter

September 2009

• PrimaryConnections (2009-2011) Stage 4
• Introduction to PrimayConnections workshops for ACT Primary Schools
• More than 176,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia
• PrimaryConnections school wins top Eureka prize
• PrimaryConnections again short-listed for the 2009 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing

April 2009

• PrimaryConnections goes to the Top End
• More than 140,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia and overseas
• Terese Rein visits PrimaryConnections
• Science Teachers Association of Queensland: Science is Primary conference

December 2008

• In July 2008, Acting Education Minister, The Hon Brendan O'Connor, announced ongoing funding for PrimaryConnections.
• In excess of 900 Curriculum Leaders Australia wide have been trained in partnership with State jurisdictions and their associated PLFs.
• More than 100,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia and overseas.
• The new Indigenous Perspectives Report and DVD has now been published.

December 2007

• A 'pilot' unit (Plants in action) with the embedded Draft Indigenous Perspectives has been developed and is currently being trialled.
• PrimaryConnections releases the eighth published unit in the suite, It's electrifying.
• More than 60,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia and overseas.

August 2007

• PrimaryConnections shortlisted for Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing for 2007.
• More than 40,000 PrimaryConnections units distributed throughout Australia and overseas.
• Almost 300 trained professional learning facilitators located Australia-wide to conduct a range of professional learning.

March 2007

• A further 120 PrimaryConnections Professional Learning Facilitators are trained in Canberra in January 2007.
• Three new PrimaryConnections curriculum resource units are published and available for sale from January 2007.
• Minister for Education Science and Training Julie Bishop announces a $1m Awards for Excellence scheme for Australian Universities who incorporate PrimaryConnections into their pre-service primary education courses.

October 2006

• PrimaryConnections wins the 2006 Australian Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing in the Primary Teaching and Learning category.
• Federal Minister for Science, Education and Training, Julie Bishop formally announces $3 million funding for Stage 3 of the PrimaryConnections project.
• The second Professional Learning Facilitator workshop will be held in Canberra from 17–19 January 2007.

July 2006

• PrimaryConnections is shortlisted for Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing for 2006.
• Four PrimaryConnections curriculum resource units are published and available for sale.
• Eighty-eight PrimaryConnections professional learning facilitators are trained and are available to conduct professional development for schools.