Barbie Bates
2015 PTTR Conference: register now!
Register now for the Paint the Town REaD ’s 5th National Conference, Making Waves — Early Literacy and Collective Impact.
25–27 March 2015 in Wollongong, NSW.
The Conference is registered with BOSTES as a professional development accredited course. Download the BOSTE Accreditation details.
Download the 2015 PTTR Conference Registration Form
Register now for Hearing Loss Seminar
Do not miss this seminar!
Professor David Ryugo of the Garvin Institute, an expert in the interaction of hearing and the brain, has agreed to speak about the impacts of hearing loss on children under school age.
David spent nine years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and twenty-three years at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Download the PTTR Hearing Seminar Registration Form now.
Cost is $15 per head.
Paint the Town REaD events across Australia in Children’s Week
From east to west, Paint the Town REaD is celebrating Children’s Week with great early literacy events.
- Paint Holroyd REaD is holding a Big Reading Day
- Paint Campbelltown REaD and Paint Liverpool REaD are staging their inaugural REaDing Days.
- Paint Rouse Hill REaD is having its BIG Day Out.
- Paint Doveton REaD’s Mascot is hatching!
- Paint the Blue REaD took part in a big children’s event on Saturday.
- Paint the Swan REaD is holding a PTTR Conference and its Reading Day.
And there are lots more.
Call for Sponsorship for our 2015 Conference
An Invitation to be a sponsor at our 5th National Early Literacy Conference, to be held in Wollongong in March 2015.
Call for Conference papers
Do you have a great workshop or poster that you’d like to present at our 5th National Early Literacy Conference in 2015?
Download, fill out and send us our Call for Papers Paint the Town REaD 2015 Conference form.
Please have all submissions to us by Friday 18 July.
Some great ideas are already coming in.
Advance Notice Fifth National Early Literacy Conference
Making Waves: Early Literacy and Collective Impact
25–27 March 2015 in Wollongong
Put these dates in your diary now!
Come and join us — whether you’re from the city or the country, work in early childhood, libraries, child and family services, volunteer in a Service Club, or you’re a strategic planner in your government position. Or if you just want to learn about how to get started painting your community REaD.
We’ll share great ideas, have fun, plan new strategies, as well as enjoy the Gong’s seaside hospitality. So start thinking about whom you’d like to invite, what you’d like to find out and what you’d like to share.
Your hosts are Bright Spark the Mascot with Paint the Gong REaD
and Paint Shellharbour REaD.
To register your interest email conference@paintthetownread.info
Enquiries
Tracey Kirk Downey 0409 849 463
or Barbie Bates 0487 887 008
Fifth Early Literacy Conference
Our Fifth Early Literacy Conference will be taking place in March 2015 in Wollongong NSW. Watch this space for dates and details.
During 2014 we will hold Regional Training Days. Again, watch this space for dates and details.
And in case you’re wondering, our Fourth Annual Early Literacy Conference was held across two venues — Warren in country NSW and Merrylands, Sydney in September 2013.