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Thanks to recent support from Tassal – Our Community, Inspiring Australia and our Gofundme campaign we can offer a further 32 x free Swag Family whole-school subscriptions valued at $500 each. To claim yours you just need to be teaching a primary school class in 2019 in an Australian school (public or private) and complete an EOI.

To spread the adventure far and wide we are accepting the first four schools from each state and territory.

The subscription can be just for your class but will also cover any teacher in your school. It includes the downloadable student workbooks, teacher guide, a 30 minute Skype from us into the classroom during the adventure and access to the online discussion boards. Available for classroom use any time in 2019.

Apply now for a free class/school subscription >

Note: Any Tasmanian public school can register with the above link for free thanks to Department of Education, Tasmania support. So far there are 28 schools and about 1500 students signed up!

Exploring people’s relationship with the place they live is one of the key themes as we travel around next year. We will share these stories through bi-weekly videos and online reports. Part of that will be finding ANIMALS and showing students the wonderful variety of shapes, sizes, colours and how they are part of the landscape too. Here’s hoping for lots of encounters (from a safe distance) like the one we happened upon in the backyard last week.

• Late December, website launch. 
• 7 January, ride down the driveway… without crashing please.
• From 7 January onwards, beginning in Tasmania explore Australia by bike, twice weekly reports. 
• 6 February – 14 March, visit Tasmanian schools where possible. Bookings can be organised when school goes back.
• 19 February, official project launch at Campbell Street Primary, Hobart.
• 16 March, sail with Doug across Bass Strait if he gets back from Antarctica in good shape. You will meet Doug in March.
• Continue exploring people and places all over the country, Skypeing classrooms, visiting schools along the way.
• These enewsletters every 2–3 weeks with the best bits of the journey.

This was in the last newsletter but in case you missed it.

Follow the links below to download the Schools Info and Curriculum Outline for:

• Year 1–2
• Year 3–4
• Year 5–6

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Read Swag Mail Edition #1 (12 October 2018)

Read Swag Mail Edition #2 (27 November 2018)