The relationship between Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton evolved over several months in 1984 and 1985. Even when they first slept together Button had no idea who Mercury was, and when the star told him his name it meant nothing to him.;Hutton worked as a barber at the Savoy Hotel and retained his job and his lodgings in Sutton, Surrey, for two years after moving in with Mercury, and then worked as his gardener. He was never fully assimilated into Mercury's jet-setting lifestyle, nor did he want to be, but from 1985 until Mercury's death in 1991 he was closer to him than anyone and knew all Merc... View More...
Macmillan Essential English has been written specifically for the new 2019 Queensland Essential English syllabus. It focuses on preparing students for assessment success, and building lifelong literacy and communication skills.
Structured using sequences of double-page spreads, the textbook is designed around accessible, high-engagement, multimodal texts to deliver syllabus outcomes and prepare students for assessment. Each lesson-sized spread focuses on a specific concept, skill or outcome, scaffolded using Marzano’s taxonomy of cognitive processes. Students can see at a glance what they... View More...
Cambridge Essential English for Queensland invites students to communicate and interact with others effectively by studying language and texts that are relevant to their everyday lives.
Students are encouraged to develop critical and creative thinking skills as they consolidate essential vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar skills, and prepare for the common internal assessment.
Comprehensively covers the new Essential English curriculum to be implemented in 2019.
Written by a team of practising teachers with experience in curriculum development and writing resources for... View More...
Year 1 Theme: Animal Friends (Living Things). Each Queensland's Handwriting Made Easy workbook includes a comprehensive teaching program, a slope card to help students maintain the required 10 degree slope of cursive handwriting, a skills checklist, both for parents and teachers to assess students' progress in handwriting, and for students to develop a sense of achievement as their handwriting skills improve. View More...
. . . A must for every school classroom! The Handwriting Rules! QLD edition fully integrates handwriting skills with other areas of the English curriculum: spelling and phonics, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and aspects of literature. Year F features: chant for each letter, based on an alliterative noun group patterns to develop fine motor control track and trace with start dots and directional arrows artwork to reinforce the focus letter teacher box with words to look for on the page or to link to in other English Curriculum work cognitive approach, including pat... View More...
. . . A must for every school classroom! The Handwriting Rules! QLD edition fully integrates handwriting skills with other areas of the English curriculum: spelling and phonics, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and aspects of literature. Year 1 features: focus letter clearly modelled trace a pattern to warm up track and trace with start dots and directional arrows write words, with start dots to guide spacing write sentences self-assessment teacher box with links to grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary, and literary elements. View More...
. . . A must for every school classroom! The Handwriting Rules! QLD edition fully integrates handwriting skills with other areas of the English curriculum: spelling and phonics, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and aspects of literature. Year 2 features: review of the Queensland Beginning Alphabet trace a picture to warm up trace a noun/verb/adverb alliterative label trace and write letters, words and sentences practice sentences connect to other elements of the English Curriculum self-assessment encourages students to think about their own learning teacher box w... View More...
. . . A must for every school classroom! The Handwriting Rules! QLD edition fully integrates handwriting skills with other areas of the English curriculum: spelling and phonics, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and aspects of literature. Year 3 features: focus on diagonal, and horizontal joins and increasing fluency clear instruction box for each new join helpful tips in speech bubbles variety of activities, including writing own texts focus on building fluency and legibility self-assessment encourages students to think about their own learning teacher box with l... View More...
. . . A must for every school classroom! The Handwriting Rules! QLD edition fully integrates handwriting skills with other areas of the English curriculum: spelling and phonics, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and aspects of literature. Year 4 features: clear instruction box for each new join helpful tips in speech bubbles a variety of activities provide English Curriculum context for handwriting, as well as encourage student engagement, interest and motivation focus on building fluency, legibility and speed extra challenges, such as writing without guidelines and new s... View More...
My Macquarie Word Book, Queensland Beginner's Alphabet is a personal dictionary for students in the first 3 years at school. This great spelling resource includes the most common high-frequency words, and space for students to record their own words from their reading and writing activities. Special features: •alphabet reference chart on back cover for students learning the alphabet •alphabet guide down side of each page •each letter has a fun illustration showing two nouns and a verb •includes space for digraphs ch, sh, th and wh •plenty of space for students to add t... View More...
A comprehensive pocket-sized guide to the wild plants of the Scenic Rim, Queensland, Australia. This pocket guide introduces you to the variety of wild plants growing in one of Queensland’s great natural treasure troves, the Scenic Rim. The Scenic Rim encompasses a chain of high mountains and plateaux, as well as scattered, isolated peaks, low rolling hills and flood plains that lie to the south and south-west of Brisbane in Queensland's south-east corner. The region is a very special 'storehouse' of unique animals and distinctive plants, with some species found nowhere else in the wo... View More...
Sometimes myths and legends can appear in the most unexpected places. The Brisbane Central Business District is one such unlikely setting. It is here that the young George Kiprios found accidental and enduring fame in his public persona of Rock 'N' Roll George. Many people who have grown up, or lived, in Brisbane have a story to tell about George. For more than 50 years, he was constant presence in a city that was evolving rapidly from sleepy country capital to modern metropolis. George touched the lives of Brisbane residents from all walks of life and our collective memories of him are nosta... View More...
Oxford Handwriting for Queensland is a complete handwriting program developed under the guidance of handwriting expert and author, Deborah Davis. This fresh modern series develops the building blocks of handwriting with correct posture and grip models and opportunities to model and practice accurate letter formation and joining techniques. Student Books F - 2: Patterns to introduce letter groups and develop fluency skills. Starting dots and direction arrows. Automated information of high-frequency Oxford Wordlist words. Self-assessment pages and 'track your progress' spreads. Links to Oxford L... View More...
Macmillan English has been written specifically for the new 2019 Queensland English syllabus. The series prepares students for successful completion of the course and for assessment and exam success.
The textbooks each feature a curated selection of multimodal, literary and non-literary texts. These carefully selected texts provide opportunities for students to develop skills and strategies for analysing perspectives, representation and evidence. The textbook systematically and explicitly teaches students how to challenge ideas and interpretations through analysis and creation.
Key featur... View More...
Growing up in North Queensland in the early 1900's. Australian children of this new millennium takes for granted a lofestyle that includes videos, T.V. Soapies, DVD's, computer games. But the children of a hundred years ago, the Federation era, had a different set of expectations. They walked barefoot through the bindies to school. Their homes were barkhuts with ant-beds for floors. they harnessed their billy-goat carts to fetch wood and water. This earlier generation of North Queenslanders lived with floods and droughts. They knew grinding poverty and they knew hard work, but they were proud ... View More...
Jacaranda Maths Quest 11 Essential Mathematics Units 1 & 2 for Queensland Print & eBookPLUS.
This combined print and digital title is designed to help teachers unpack the new curriculum and help students at the point of learning, so that every student can experience success in the classroom, at home and thus ultimately in the exam.
An access code for the eBookPLUS comes free on the inside cover of your printed text, so you can make the most of both the print and digital formats.
The latest editions of Jacaranda Maths Quest 11 Essential Mathematics Units 1 & 2 for Queensland includes th... View More...
What is it? A colourful, detailed guidebook packed with hundreds of shorter, easier, more accessible family-friendly bushwalks throughout South East Queensland. The Second Edition has an added Toowoomba chapter. This book is an ideal gift for the outdoorsy person in your life! How is this book different from the other bushwalking guides? It covers every qualifying bushwalk in the region. It's bang up to date. It only covers easier, shorter bushwalks, no ropes required. It only covers easily accessible bushwalks, you don't need a 4WD. Every bushwalk is i... View More...
What is it? A book of detailed maps of bike paths suitable for recreational cycling, thoroughly covering South East Queensland. Why are the maps in this book better than the free maps available? Because we are cyclists with families and we wanted something better and more accurate so we rode every metre to make sure. It took us more than a year. What do the maps show? Here is the Map Legend; We rode every metre of these bike paths to ensure we had the details correct: Rideable paths in great detail. Playgrounds with ratings. Shelter and drinking water. Barb... View More...
WHERE TO MOUNTAIN BIKE in SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND, Fifth Edition What is it? A book of detailed topographic maps of recreational trails suitable for riding your mountain bike, very thoroughly covering South East Queensland and a slice of Northern NSW. The book is A4 in size and spiral bound to lie flat in a photocopier. What's new in the Fifth Edition? 454km of legal singletrack, up from 169km in the Fourth Edition. Many important new areas including Promisedland (Bundaberg), Sugar Bag (Caloundra), Cornubia (Logan) and Hinze (Gold Coast). Coverage north to Bundaberg ... View More...
A legendary New Yorker copy editor's endlessly enjoyable life lessons in spelling and punctuation, grammar and usage. (And pencils.) 'Enlightening, useful, and often outright hilarious. From exclamation marks to emoticons, swear words to split infinitives, Mary Norris is the bomb.' Australian Women's Weekly 'What is immediately beguiling about Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen is the extraordinary amount of ground Norris covers.[She is] wise, funny, precise and knowledgeable.' Sydney Morning Herald 'This book is so much fun to read. Get it and revel in the delights and conundru... View More...
