
Mark Great stuff, an excellent way to finish the year!

Charby Ibrahim Congratulations to all the Schools First Seed and Impact award winners for 2009. It has been such a successful first year.

Stuart Osbourne Schools First national awards last week was sensational... Kochie was a great host, and J Gillard's speech was impressive. So good to see the good work being done in Aussie education highlighted -a pleasure to be part of it all.

Mark
Some great video of the winners on the site! - http://www.schoolsfirst.edu.au/sf-genera l-pages/this-years-winners-.phps

Belinda Congratulations Canberra College for winning the Schools First NATIONAL Impact Award for 2009 - very well deserved. Find out more about the State & National winners on schoolsfirst.edu.au

Jojo Parkes Congratulations CCCares I am so proud of you all, I know i havent been apart of the program in a while but it is amazing to see the commitment and how many mum's are doing well in life because of CCCares Thanks to you all for helping promote such an awesome program. Im proud to say they helped me in a way no other scho...ol program ever could.... I finished yr 12 and now Im working!

Don Spencer
Thumbs up to all joining our Philanthropic
Choir!! Aiming for Guinness Book of Records for members... what do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P0qus0kv -k

Jacqui Hewitt We have applied for funding in a huge rush as we did not see the advertisements earlier. Good luck to all applicants

Jan Her we go, just found out about the grant applications, so one more day left, make the Most of it people!! Good luck to All Particiapants....

Schools First The Schools First team shares their 'Top Tips for Applicants', so if you're applying for a Schools First Award, be sure to check these out! In particular, there's an opportunity for a one-on-one telephone conversation with one of our specialist team at the Foundation for Young Australians:
www.schoolsfirst.edu.au
Schools First Australia, Schools First is a fantastic new initiative that is about improving outcomes for young people. At its heart, Schools First is about bringing together students, teachers, parents and community members, to support each other and help improve student outcomes.

Schools First Earlybird Competition: submit your Schools First Award application online using "My Applications" by Sunday 2nd August for your chance to win a $1,000 Borders voucher to buy books for your school. Visit our website to find out more...
www.schoolsfirst.edu.au
Schools First Australia, Schools First is a fantastic new initiative that is about improving outcomes for young people. At its heart, Schools First is about bringing together students, teachers, parents and community members, to support each other and help improve student outcomes.

Schools First Have you seen our new TV commercial? Check it out on Channel 7 and read about it here:
www.education.theage.com.au
The campaign to encourage schools to apply for Schools First awards is getting an extra push with a creative television campaign that started screening on Channel 7 yesterday.

Schools First ABC's Bush Radio interviewed our project director and some school representatives this morning to talk about Schools First and hear about live partnerships. You can listen to our download the interview online:
www.abc.net.au
Put your hand up if you played chess at school in an attempt to improve your maths grades? Or perhaps you made orange ice blocks from a creatively named "slurperlator" as part of your school week?

Schools First To support you in making a Schools First Award application, we've created page dedicated to awards-related questions:
www.schoolsfirst.edu.au
Schools First Australia, Schools First is a fantastic new initiative that is about improving outcomes for young people. At its heart, Schools First is about bringing together students, teachers, parents and community members, to support each other and help improve student outcomes.












