If so, we’d love you to donate to Paint the Town REaD in this financial year!
It’s as easy as. Just go to our Justgiving Page. As a registered charity, any gifts over $2 are tax deductible.
Helping prepare a child to be ready for learning at school takes patience and time. But it is critical for how well they will learn to read and write, matriculate and move into adult life.
You may not see the outcomes in your lifetime, but the children you help today will.
PTTR is thrilled to partner with the Readings Foundation to deliver this project with thirty early childhood services in Victoria within our PTTR communities.
Thank you Readings Foundation for your generosity.
Follow us on facebook to watch the progress of this great project!
Thank you everyone who has been part of the 2021 journey with us.
Children’s lives have been changed for the better through you, as you shared with them the love of books and reading.
So as a way of saying thank you – here are two activities you can do with your children and/or grandchildren/nieces/nephews/neighbours this week – as well as reading with them of course!
A Christmas Card to colour in and give to someone they love. A tangram puzzle to complete.
A tangram puzzleColour in this Christmas Card and give to someone you love!
Although signed off earlier this year, COVID (or course!) has stopped us getting together in person – so we met over a ZOOM call today.
Needless to say lack of an official launch has not stopped Goodstart WA services and WA PTTR members working together, firstly with Decoration Packs for Goodstart Services, reading visits and a partnership with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and UWWA.
Watch this space for what the partnership will create in 2022!
Pictured right to left: Top row: Justine Roberts (WA PTTR Coordinator), Jo Brown (Performance Excellence Leader Goodstart WA), Barbie Bates (Executive Director PTTR) Bottom row: Todd Dawson (State Manager Goodstart WA) Andrea Folkard (Paint Wannaroo REaD)
Yesterday marked the launch of our latest REaD and Sing with Me at Home campaign, particularly for our communities who are in lockdown. We are celebrating reading and singing at home especially on Wednesdays.
Check out your local PTTR facebook pages – and share with your friends – to see what is happening in your local community.
Here are some:@Paint Inner West Read, @Paint Liverpool Read, @Paint Mt Druitt with Rooby Roo, @Paint Canterbury Read, @All Areas Family Day Care, @Paint the Gong Read, @Paint the Town REaD
For those of us in lockdown (or not!) Wednesday is the day to spend lots of time with our children reading and singing.
#readandsingwithmeathome
Paint the Swan’s recently released book has lots of great ideas of how families living in the Swan Valley survived last year – including chalk drawing on driveways, reading with their pets and baby brothers and sisters, paper mâché, making treats with dad, creative craft and music, writing letters and posting drawings to friends and grandparents..
Celebrating NAIDOC Week this year will be very different across our great land – as our PTTRB&Y (including PTTR) communities will celebrate according to COVID requirements.
We aim is to help close the early literacy gap for our First Nations children – led by local Elders.
This week especially we wish to acknowledge their eons of wisdom, love and commitment to their children, communities and land.
Congratulations to our very own Barbie Bates who has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list with an Order of Australia Medal for her service to children.
Barbie has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of children across Australia, most recently as the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Paint the Town REaD.
When speaking to Barbie following the announcement she said:‘I am overwhelmed to receive this honour. Close to 30 years ago I attended a graduation service at Batchelor TAFE college in the NT. As graduates went forward to receive their awards, they were preceded and/or accompanied by Elders and/or dancers from their Aboriginal communities. There was a very strong sense that the graduates were representing their communities, as their communities had been crucial to them achieving their success and that they were receiving their awards on behalf of their communities. A shared Award.
This is my sense about this honour. I am receiving it on behalf of, and because of, all in PTTR – from the Board to all the volunteers across our 90+ communities. It belongs to us all.’
Our 8th National Conference ended with the call for everyone present to meet up and yarn with Aboriginal friends and colleagues during Reconciliation Week, given the theme this year of More than a Word. Reconciliation Takes Action.
Aptly, with the Conference theme being Enhancing Early Literacy by Embracing our Cultural Diversity, the tone was set by Aunty Lyn Martin, when her Welcome to Country included her reading the Uluru Statement from the Heart to us.
Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley MH, PTTR Patron and guest speaker, Aunty Lyn Martin, and Cr Asfour, Mayor of Canterbury Bankstown, delegates and mascots at the 8th National Paint the Town REaD Conference in Bankstown, Sydney.
