The former teacher reportedly pointed out that, some 55 years ago, says he was threatened by government officials who told him to keep quiet about the sighting.
Primary schools dump âpredictableâ picture books as reading tools
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Clayton South Primary principal Greg Clement wasnât happy with the books his school used to teach children to read.
Filled with predictable and repetitive text, the books had matching pictures that the children could use to guess many of the words.
Clayton South Primary students Jay Rose Garcia and Sienna Thea are learning to read using systematic synthetic phonics.
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Though they were standard in most Victorian primary schools, Mr Clement feared the books were papering over many studentsâ literacy struggles, especially those from a non-English-speaking background.
Burke Road shop sells for $1m above reserve
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Investors are betting bold on a shopping strip recovery. One paid $1 million above the reserve for a prime shop at 580 Burke Road with a final $6.788 million auction bid. Fitzroys’
Chris Kombi and
Chris James said the shop, leased long term to Country Road’s Witchery, commanded a sharp 3.8 per cent yield.
A strata-titled, 130 sq m two-storey shop at 193 Clarendon Street sold for $1,022,000.
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It took just 27 bids for a two-storey converted office at 126 Rupert Street to sell for $2.46 million in an auction overseen by Gross Waddell ICR’s
Australian McCormick Foods dispute part of global restructuring drive
Workers at the McCormick Foods factory in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South have now been on the job for more than three weeks since the United Workers Union (UWU) declared their six-week strike over on April 7. But the workplace enterprise agreement (EA) invoked by the UWU to shut down the stoppage still has not been published.
As a result, workers at the plant, which produces and packages sauces and spices for major fast-food and retail outlets, still do not know the details of the agreement negotiated by management and the union.