Boys Forward Institute

Improving Boys' Literacy & Numeracy Performance in Primary Schools

These 2 new seminars will be held in Brisbane on the 23rd and 24th August 2010. Analysis of Queensland NAPLAN and individual One School data indicate a fall in boys’ achievement in the middle primary school years. These seminars are designed to investigate reasons for this phenomenon while ensuring the ongoing success of girls through inclusive and gender-specific strategies.

Click here for more information.

 

visit our online shop

Boys Forward E-Newsletter

Subscribe to our e-newsletter using the form provided to receive news and upcoming seminar information in your email inbox.

Name:

Email Address:

Region: QLD NSW VIC SA WA NT TAS ACT New Zealand Outside Australia / NZ

Food For Thought..

I dreamed I stood in a studio
And watched two sculptors there,
The clay they used was a young child's mind
And they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher; the tools being used
Were books and music and art,
One a parent with a guiding hand
And a gentle, loving heart.

Day after day the teacher toiled
With touch that was deft and sure,
While the parent laboured just as hard
And polished and smoothed it o'er.

When at last their task was done
They were proud of what they had wrought,
For the things they had moulded into the child
Could neither be sold nor bought.

And both agreed they would have failed
If they had worked alone;
For behind the parent stood the school
And behind the teacher, the home.

David Bowen

send us an enquiry