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Urban Lyrebirds

Locality: St Kilda, Victoria

Address: PO Box 1118 3182 St Kilda, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.urbanlyrebirds.com

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23.01.2022 Our thoughts are with everyone during the coronavirus pandemic. Take care, stay at home & stay well! Urban Lyrebirds is creating some Sing with me at home videos for students who will be studying at home next term. See attached a video for beginners. We will also upload it onto our YouTube channel and other social media sites, to make it easier for students to watch it at home. Feel free to share it with students and teachers. We are planning to create more videos that wi...ll be suitable for intermediate and advanced students. Please send us feedback to let us know if your students are enjoying using them. If they are, we will produce some more to help us all get through 2020 together!

21.01.2022 Urbanlyrebirds were delighted to join Adult Learners Week 25th Anniversary. Nina Rose wrote and performed "GetTogether" for the opening event.

19.01.2022 Hi Everyone, See below our latest video which is also on YouTube and our Urban Lyrebirds Twitter account. Students can learn how to talk about their symptoms and describe how they are feeling. ... Please provide us with feedback so we know if your students are enjoying using our Sing with me at home videos. Take care out there! https://youtu.be/T5i4sjObc_k

18.01.2022 Hi everyone...exciting news below from ISSI Fellow Jodie Whitehurst...great PD opportunity on 19th October! Good afternoon everyone, I am pleased to share my brand new website, The Language Scene: www.thelanguagescene.com.au where you will find details of professional learning sessions on teaching language classes through drama (suitable for EAL and LOTE teachers from across all sectors).... My first workshop entitled 'Bring your online language lessons to life through drama' will be held on Monday, 19 October at 2.00pm. Please note that places are limited to 12 participants. Here is the link with more information. https://thelanguagescene.com.au/event/ For regular updates on The Language Scene's future workshops and courses, I invite you to also follow the Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thelanguagescene.com.au Have a great day and I hope to see some of you in the virtual drama space soon!!

18.01.2022 Creativity is an essential 'soft skill' we all need for the workplace. https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/

11.01.2022 This is a music video for students to enjoy learning English at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

10.01.2022 Exciting news! A new publication from Urban Lyrebirds. May Street Stories by Carmel Davies A vibrant series of six post beginner readers for EAL, Elicos and Literacy students. ... The May Street apartments are home to teenagers and refugees, international students and retirees. The varied characters live in a block of flats in May Street and their lives intersect in six engaging stories. Real life situations of residents, neighbours and families. Each story has language comprehension exercises and an audio version easily accessible on this website. Read and listen to May Street Stories! The readers are being distributed by Bookery. See the link below. https://www.bookery.com.au/ Recordings of the stories will be on our Urban Lyrebirds' website from early March 2020.

07.01.2022 Hi everyone, heres is some exciting news from ISSI Fellow Jodie Whitehurst...great PD opportunity on 19th October! Good afternoon everyone, I am pleased to share my brand new website, The Language Scene: www.thelanguagescene.com.au where you will find details of professional learning sessions on teaching language classes through drama (suitable for EAL and LOTE teachers from across all sectors).... My first workshop entitled 'Bring your online language lessons to life through drama' will be held on Monday, 19 October at 2.00pm. Please note that places are limited to 12 participants. Here is the link with more information. https://thelanguagescene.com.au/event/ For regular updates on The Language Scene's future workshops and courses, I invite you to also follow the Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thelanguagescene.com.au Have a great day and I hope to see some of you in the virtual drama space soon!!

07.01.2022 Love this Ted Talk! (along with nearly 63,000 others) :) Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? | TED Talk https://www.ted.com talks ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

06.01.2022 It is with much sadness that we write to let you know that Maggie Power, our dear friend, colleague and co-founder of Urban Lyrebirds passed away last month. Maggie was a founding teacher in the Youth and pre-literate Programs and at Collingwood AMES. She was a central member of the Collingwood team that started research into pre-literacy learners and developed a whole new approach that changed the way we all taughtfor the better. It was an exciting time to be a teacher. Sh...Continue reading

06.01.2022 Urbanlyrebirds...we were delighted to join Adult Learners Week 25th Anniversary opening event on Sept 1st. Here is Nina Rose's song for the happy occasion " Get Together".

05.01.2022 Here's an interesting article from ACER about literacy and play with ideas for activities to enhance phonological awareness. https://rd.acer.org/a/teaching-early-literacy-through-play

01.01.2022 A fun start for Term 4! Nina wrote this song for Adult Learners across Australia in Adult learners Week. We've added subtitles for you to sing with your class. Have fun!! Nina is one of our singers in the Sing With Me! series.

01.01.2022 Here's a song about shopping for students to sing at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn some vocabulary for the supermarket and improve your pronunciation. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/zX0OBP7wocY