Norman Lindsay Festival of Children's Literature

Norman Lindsay Festival of Children's Literature on 2nd and 3rd April, 2011.
The 11th annual Norman Lindsay Festival of Children’s Literature will once again be held within the grounds of the home of “The Magic Pudding”, the Norman Lindsay Gallery in Faulconbridge, NSW.

Authors will talk about writing and illustrating for children, sign books and there will also be stalls and entertainment.

Can you spy the magic pudding in Peter's photo of Norman Lindsay' home in the Blue Mountains of NSW?

PHOTO BY Poyt448 Peter Woodard

Animals at school

Ballina High School in northern NSW, Australia is one of many schools that keep animals at school. Their Marine Discovery Centre has fish and yabbies which are allocated to students who then record their growth.
The program uses a “hands on” and “feet in” approach so kids can learn about the marine environment and good coastal management.

Film

Young Australian film makers celebrate win Sydney, 21 October 2010 - Australia's finest young film makers have been recognised at the annual Panasonic Kid Witness News (KWN) New Vision Awards held in Sydney. More at KWN
Young People's Film Festival

National Young Filmmakers' Award 2011 - Call for Entries

Film Leeds Young People's Film Festival is "looking for exciting and innovative films made both FOR and BY children and young people from across the UK and the world. The films can be shorts or features in any genre (fiction, documentary, animation) and in any format..."

Your movie could be watched by audiences of 5000 people!

Kids Witness News has a global contest in video making which also enables on line voting. See 2010 winners here.

News about kids and news for kids.

Get connected to the good news around the world for kids. Find out what other kids are doing or send your own news to kidsnnau@gmail.com from your home, school or country.

Join in at Kids News Network - KNN

What Schools are doing for the environment.

At Slade Green Junior School in Bexley, London, U.K. children and staff have reduced waste by over 90%. Their action plan focused on paper, cardboard and organic materials.
PHOTO from Wiki commons Aluminium recycling drive.

What kids are doing.
Supporting Street Children in Ethiopia and other countries is what 11 year old Isla Ratcliff is doing by playing her violin. Busking for Street Children , started by Ilsa, is a fund raising campaign. "buskingforstreetchildren was inspired by my experience in Edinburgh in Summer 2007 when I managed to raise over £500 in 9hrs of busking over 8 days." Ilsa Ratcliff

A Children's News Network: Y- press. Visit their site which has up to date news, reviews, forums and the Constitution Project.
Book made by students "Soil clings to our skin and covers our feet." This is an excerpt from 'In Our Village: Kambi ya Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth'. It is a book made by a group of students in Tanzania with help from WKCD (What Kids Can Do). The students, aged sixteen to eighteen years, gathered photographs and stories about the day to day challenges in their world. How the students made this book

Students raise $300,000 in 'Dollars for Darfur' Challenge. Students from more than 2,000 U.S. high schools are raising public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur. They raised $300,000 in the national Dollars for Darfur competition sponsored by the Save Darfur Coalition. The students are continuing to express their concerns with politicians in the American Capitol.

Clearwater Central Catholic High School, raised funds by providing a meal of a bowl of rice, bread and water to remind us of the conditions that refugees in Darfur face everyday.

Children's Choir Raises Hope.
The African Children’s Choir has children from ages 7 to 11 performing African songs and dance and raising funds for continued development in Africa. More info... where you can hear the choir sing or buy a CD.

Reducing Energy Comsumption.
Avery Hairston, a 15-year-old from New York City, U.S.A., has started a charity called RelightNY. Hairston states 'I, along with a growing teenage advisory board, plan to take on the issue of climate change through the simple action of changing a light bulb.'
RelightNY helps people save money on their energy bills by giving them CFL's. These Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs are given to low-income families in an effort to educate and inspire everyone to take better care for the environment. CFL's last up to ten times longer than a regular bulb.

Personal Achievements.
Helping Others
Taiki Kasuga, who is part of RelightNY, travelled to Peru for three weeks of community service.

Science Wizz Blake Bambrook has been given a scholarship by the NSW Government Office for Science & Medical Research to travel to the Nobel Prize-giving ceremony and the Stockholm International Science Seminar in Sweden. Blake was selected from over 1200 applicants in Australia. Full story at Ballina Advocate



Student Donates Winnings to Amnesty Myfanwy Appleton, an Australian High School student, donated $500.00AUS to Amnesty International to make a "positive impact upon people's lives". Myfanwy won the Charles Sturt University’s Making a Difference (MaD) Competition. More detail about Amnesty...