Rookery Road

12/07/2026

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12/07/2026

An excellent read.

Teaching students to understand complex sentence structure can be powerful, a recent study suggests.

05/07/2026

🌸🌸🌸🌸 Transition to High School Program
for the Year 6 cohort 🌸🌸🌸🌸

Our VIPs have been contacted with a quarter of the tickets gone already. TODAY at 10am we will be sending out the invite to those on our priority waiting list.

👉 3 group times for the Positive Preparation for Year 7 English. 2 to be held at our HQ in Spotswood and 1 in Pascoe Vale. Sessions capped to only 6 students. Run over 6 weeks from the start of Term 4.

👉 Parent/guardian workshop Accommodations through the lens of Assistive Technology. To be delivered in November.

👉 Executive Function student workshop where students will build a tool kit of essential strategies to set them up for success

👉 NOW taking expressions of interest for our signature parent/guardian workshop to be run online. Our in-person session is only for our VIP clientele but this course to too good not to be shared. We twisted Cathy’s arm to run it again but online and she agreed.

Comment LINK below and we’ll slide into your inbox with the details!

This year is going to be big!

03/07/2026

Rookery Road is 100% about this!

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01/07/2026

Did you know, there are nearly 10,000 apps for teaching reading!
For all those people that are after examples of high quality, evidence based reading apps, you can now check out these top rated apps according to the latest research from Flinders University
The paper ‘Finding the needle in the haystack: A quality appraisal of mobile applications for foundational literacy skills’ by Lisa Furlong, Tanya Serry, Shane Erickson, Meryl Lefort, Megan Gath, Meg E Morris is published in the Early Childhood Education Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10643-025-02066-8. This research was funded by a Flinders University Impact Seed Funding Grant for Early Career Researchers, awarded to Dr Lisa Furlong.
You can read about it in the Early Childhood Education Journal here: 👉 https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/11/27/kids-reading-apps-failing-to-deliver-educational-value/
dyslexia flindersuniversity

27/06/2026

Who else agrees with this? ❤️

20/06/2026

Like what we do?

Then vote for Rookery Road in the Local Business Awards!

We have popped up in the ‘Outstanding Specialised Business’ section. You scan the QR code - type in Rookery Road and follow the details. You will need to enter your name and email, and confirm your vote via an email to your inbox.

In our 9th year we couldn’t be prouder of this little business and the impact we are creating, along with an incredible community in person and online following along.

We are so excited to be sharing very shortly our hugely popular Transition to High School program, along with a few new programs for our regulars.

Sharing our gratitude to you all in advance. 🙏

20/06/2026

Despite the challenges of dyslexia and dysgraphia there are a number of our young people who have talented writing ability. Entry is free - will be sharing this one with our students and their educators!

✍️ Calling all young writers.

A popular writing competition is back, giving Victorian students aged 5 to 18 the chance to have their stories and poems recognised.

📖 Article link in first comment.