KidsMatter - Australian Primary Schools Health Initiative

KidsMatter was well represented at the annual Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) conference, held recently in Brisbane from the 30th November to the 4th of December. The KidsMatter symposium was designed to introduce the KidsMatter initiative in terms of its rationale, approach and implementation. Our large cast of presenters included Brenda Dobia (National Resources Coordinator based at the APS), Belinda Roberts (Project Officer based at the APS), Carol Buchanan (Principal from The Willows Primary School), Kaye Johnson (National Coordinator at PA), Michael Hardie (State Project Officer, Queensland), Lee Heydon and Cathie Lawson (Labrador State School), as well as Helen Askell-Williams from the evaluation team at Flinders University.

Read the abstracts for our KidsMatter symposium here.