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Holly's Heroes |
(Episodes 1 - 26)
Upper Primary |
All Holly wants to do is play basketball, but when her family moves from New Zealand to a one-team-town in coastal Australia, her talent is ignored and she misses the cut.
With basketball as a backdrip, Holly's Heroes is funny and lighthearted celebration of the importance of friendship and belonging, and the rewards that come from participation teamwork and simple love of sport. |
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Round the Twist |
Series 1-4, 52 episodes
Middle and Upper Primary |
Round the Twist is a comedy series centered on the Twist family, who live in a haunted lighthouse and have adventures with bizarre magical devices, rampaging entrepreneurs and sneering school bullies.
Used in schools across Australia to entertain, inspire and educate, Round the Twist raises important issues of ethics and behaviour. |
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Legacy of the Silver Shadow |
(Episodes 1 - 13)
Middle and Upper Primary |
Legacy of the Silver Shadow follows the adventures of four ordinary kids who discover the underground headquarters of a long-forgotten dead superhero.
With a tongue in cheek, playful approach to superheroes this series encourages young people to question media stereotypes and think about the values of friendship, loyalty, justice, community services and role models.
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Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers |
(Episodes 1 - 26)
Lower and middle Primary |
Set in small Australian outback town, Li’l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers is a comedy adventure about a boy with a gift for music, a talent for trouble and a desire to find out who he really is and be a normal kid again.
Li’l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers encourages classroom discussion about issues such as identity, parental pressure, and the value of culture and heritage. |
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Noah & Saskia |
(Episodes 1 - 13)
Upper Primary |
Saskia, a 14 year old budding musician living in Australia and Noah, a 14 year old computer geek living in London, change each other’s lives from half a world away after meeting in an internet chat room.
Noah & Saskia is an entertaining comedy drama series that explores growing up in a turbulent and technology savvy world, facing issues of identity and pressures to conform to unrealistic media images. |
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The Girl from Tomorrow |
Telemovies I and II
Upper Primary |
This telemovie sequel is based on the adventures of Alana, a 13-year-old girl from the year 3000 who is thrown back to our “strange and primitive” modern world when a time travel experiment goes wrong.
The Girl from Tomorrow is an excellent resource for studying future utopias and the science fiction genre. |
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Lift Off |
(Episodes 1- 4)
Lower and Middle Primary |
Lift Off is an internationally acclaimed educational television series which centres on a group of children who live in the same neighbourhood, and share a world of fun and imagination. Their stories reflect the joys and occasional sorrows of growing up.
Lift Off encourages the development of literacy and numeracy skills as well as creative thinking and play. |
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Spellbinder |
Episodes 1- 13
Lower and Middle Primary |
Spellbinder is a compelling science fiction, fantasy drama series based on the adventures of Paul, a suburban teenager transported into a parallel world where scientific knowledge is kept by a powerful group called the Spellbinders, who use science to control people.
Spellbinder is an excellent resource for teaching science and technology concepts.
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Worst Best Friends |
Volume 2, Episodes 5-8
Middle Primary |
Based on the stories by children’s author Max Dann, Worst Best Friends celebrates the absurdities of childhood as it charts Thesaurus’ course through the minefield of playground politics, with his two best friends, Dusting and Millicent at war. It also gently examines Thesaurus’ struggle to come to terms with his parents’ separation.
Worst Best Friends is an excellent resource for values education and in anti-bullying programs. |
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Kaboodle |
Lower, middle and upper primary |
Kaboodle is an anthology series of short stories designed to impart a love of storytelling and develop specific understandings about literature. Some stories are adaptations of popular children’s books and many have themes relevant to teaching about diversity, tolerance and values. |
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