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NSW: Star power for week 1 learning from home

Sporting heroes, education superstars and even a zoo have joined forces to add their star power to the first week of Term 3.

<div class&equals;"rich-text-div">&NewLine;<div>ABC’s Dr Karl&comma; AFL clubs the Swans and the Giants&comma; Taronga Zoo and the Department’s own Maths guru Eddie Woo will help make learning from home more engaging for students across Greater Sydney next week through daily livestreams&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning&comma; Sarah Mitchell said &num;EducationLIVE&comma; the popular daily content series&comma; was making a cameo return thanks to the generously donated time of the presenters&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;During the previous lockdown&comma; the daily livestreams to NSW Public Schools connected students with expert presenters across the fields of music&comma; art&comma; food&comma; gardening&comma; technology&comma; and sport&comma;” Ms Mitchell said&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re bringing back our daily livestreams next week so students can hear from some of our favourite educators including&comma; once again&comma; Eddie Woo&comma; Taronga Zoo&comma; and players from NSW AFL clubs&comma; the Giants and the Swans&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The livestreams will support the hard work of teachers and parents as they help our students’ learn at home for the first week&period;”<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&num;EducationLIVE starts every day from Tuesday at 10am with Taronga animal of the day followed by a special address from one of our celebrity educators&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>GWS GIANTS Captain Stephen Coniglio said the GIANTS are pleased to do their part to add some fun and movement to NSW school students who are learning from home&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our thoughts are with everyone during this difficult time&comma;” Mr Coniglio said&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>Mr Woo said he was delighted to be back on &num;EducationLIVE and hoped that lots of people would tune in next week&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our live streams are a unique and exciting way to support parents&comma; students and teachers with additional resources to help with learning from home&comma;” Mr Woo said&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&num;EducationLIVE will be available at 10am from Tuesday on the Learning from Home hub at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;educationstandards&period;nsw&period;edu&period;au&sol;wps&sol;portal&sol;nesa&sol;about&sol;news&sol;media-releases&sol;media-release-detail&sol;star-power-for-week-1-learning-from-home&sol;&excl;ut&sol;p&sol;z1&sol;pZHBisIwEIafZR8gJBnd2msUt7aNBnTL1lwkh7SGtUnJFgWf3tibsFbFuQ1838wwP5a4xNKqo6lVZ5xVh9BvZbSbED6GGQEueAGEZeIrSaZiFKeAf3oAGI3oYkzzGOaUsFG-4HTDYb0GLN&lowbar;xs88XfZHEwf8WNIJsAqJ40id3ipHn&lowbar;AFADo&lowbar;PHi0ICYBfzpY1lq3q9sjYyuHyr1Mete6kPaqcRyetfxFFB628NbZGlXcN2rtGh&lowbar;tkv-HOh1c5DAN9hIPANaNb4J8QHr2hbYpQ5ZlXm9Sk7OMCqBUjFg&excl;&excl;&sol;www&period;education&period;nsw&period;gov&period;au&sol;parents-learning-at-home">www&period;education&period;nsw&period;gov&period;au&sol;parents-learning-at-home<&sol;a> or on the department’s Facebook channel <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;NSWDepartmentofEducation&period;">www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;NSWDepartmentofEducation&period;<&sol;a><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div> <&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>Parents can also tune in with their children to ABC Education livestreams&comma; featuring teachers from the NSW Department of Education&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><span id&equals;"myTooltipMobile" class&equals;"tooltiptext">Copied<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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