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  Marg was thrilled to return to the very special, fabulous school, Tiwi College earlier this month to deliver a full day workshop on ESL and visit the wonderful students in their classes. Set in the stunning setting of the Tiwi Islands, this primary school has come a long way since it first started in…

  Jennifer, Marg and Marjorie presented at the Puliima Conference in Melbourne last week. Their talk, “From Dreamtime to reading-time: Strong first language and culture supports strong reading. ” was well attended and they received really positive feedback from participants.  Jennifer talked about stories being passed down by her mother who learnt them from her grandmother who…

We had 3 lovely emails from an excited Mum, Holly, from Sydney, who bought our writing books for her son, which we’d love to share: “I can’t tell you how grateful we are for your Honey Ant products. Without a word of a lie my 7 year old went from illegible writing to almost perfect…

Marg and bilingual education PhD student,  Janine Oldfield, who worked together as Education lecturers, meet to discuss and brain storm around the irrefutable benefits of learning to read in first language.  

A little traditional owner of the country around Uluru in Central Australia,  reads the HAR  book ‘Thank you’ and gives her approval.

Jennifer Inkamala will be speaking about the beginning of the Honey Ant Readers, at the Puliima Conference in Melbourne this week. Her mother, Trudy,  spent many happy afternoons recording traditional stories which were then used in some of the books. Jennifer is the cultural mentor of the program and the senior translator.