Encouraging news from the Australian Capital Territory’s Education Directorate last week with the statisticians-that-be applauding the local schoolchildren’s success on the NAPLAN tests, scoring as high as, or higher than, hardworking students in other parts of the country.
“Preliminary summary results of the 2019 NAPLAN tests … show that the ACT continues to perform well compared to other States and Territories,” the Directorate boasted understandably.
But ‘other Territories?’
At last count, once the ACT is accounted for, there’s only one other Territory left in the NAPLAN system and that’s the Northern Territory.
Looks like counting wasn’t one of the NAPLAN skills the ACT scored its high marks on.
Proudly prowed
Another first in PS-sssst!’s first AAAAAH! competition now (Aspirational Anagram Arrangement and Adoption Award from Heaven) with the NSW Police Force sharpening its anagramatic truncheons to host a very worthwhile program for employing Aboriginal Policepersons.
Entitled the ‘Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery’ the initiative is known to its friends as ‘IPROWD’ and is a program bound to make the Force ‘proud’ on a number of fronts and levels.
Congratulations to all concerned.
Out of Space?
A visit to the interstellar stars now as
PS-sssst!’s neverending inquisitiveness poses a burning question likely to raise doubts about almost everything we’ve ever learnt about outer space.
That question is: If the best we can do stargazing at the galaxies, planets, black holes and other spacey objects is see reflected light dating back thousands and millions of years, how do we know the objects we see today are still there after all that time?
They could have blown up by now, or could blow up tomorrow and it will take us thousands of years to find out.
Doesn’t seem a very sound based from which to launch an interspace mission one would suggest.
Maybe Flash Gordon wasn’t as smart as he was made out to be!
Angel giveaway from heaven
To Rama’s weekly giveaway now in which five lucky readers have won double passes to see the film Angel of Mine starring Noomi Rapace and Richard Roxburgh at their local cinema.
To be among the winners, all we needed to do was answer Rama’s easy quiz question which was to name another film featuring Noomi Rapace.
The choice of answers were The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest and the correct entries that also escaped the PS News Barrel of Booty first came from Katrina L of the Queensland’s Seqwater, Joanne W from the NSW Department of Communities and Justice, Michael P from the Federal Department of Human Services, Lisa C from ACT Electricity and Water and Jan B from South Australia’s RevenueSA.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all who took part. Double passes will be on their way very soon.
In the meantime for another chance to win movie tickets, follow this link to Rama’s latest competition and join in the fun.
Good luck!
Specied out!
And finally, as the most successful species on the planet to devise a language with complex and creative grammar as our preferred means of communication, why is it we don’t have a plural for the word ‘species?’
Specious, no?
Something to say?
Till next week
