Weekend almost finished :(

I have enjoyed my last couple of days home. Been working on some uni assignments and working in the garden getting it ready for winter. I cant get the pictures here for the moment due to scanning in some work into the computer and as i cant do much more i will write here. I am about to see if something quicker will work. Bugga it didnt so the slow way again. This is going to take forever man. LOL.

Julie the word RAV is an acronym it stands for Reading Assistant Voucher. It is something the Australian Federal Government done to try to raise the reading, writing and comprehension age of the children who fell below the National Benchmark. These children were given 13.5hrs of tuition on a one to one basis. One of the aims was to increase their reading age and to give a boast with their reading and comprehension. At the conclusion of the program last year they only targeted yr 3's then the Liberal Government introduced that in the following years they would also target yrs 5 and 7 then later the yr 9's (they do the LaN(Literacy and Numeracy test) in those years) but when they are tutored they are in the following year group. A this time they are including the numeracy into the program.
The new Labour Government has included it into their portfolio but i think it will only be for this year whilst the Liberal government said they were going to to it for the next 4 yrs. But it is different government now so who knows what they are going to do to improve the numeracy and literacy of Australian children. At least something was done to help the children to improve as there is getting a higher number of children leaving school who do not have high enough literacy and numeracy skills. Who knows what the new government going to do. I think they did this program this year cos of the up roar. This current government is putting money into high school so they are getting more computers.......... They are targeting the high school students. Guess who are the next generation of voters are going to be...... they will remember this government cos they got new computers..... politics you just got to love it or not...... in my opinion they are both a bunch of ************* . One puts Australia into debt and the other gets us out at our cost. Hard times either way you go.. But that politics for you.

Ok off the political bandwagon...... the RAV program last year with the amount of hours i did got us that swimming pool . yes that took several goes to get it up. Which is now at the moment a lovely shade of green :) No matter how much stuff we throw into it it not going back to clear water. We have shock it and no... still green. I might have to get flock it...... they told me the stuff that they gave was ok but NOooooooooooooo

On the cross stitching front i have manage to work on my March Challenge. I might be able to complete Feb and March as something and send all 3 photos wont that surprise Karen. HEhehehehe I like the colour i used for the March challenge but i wont say much more. until its been revealed. I am doing well here finish Jan and completed as an ornie and Feb well thats sitting finish but not completed and March well that almost finished.. at the rate i am going Apirl Challenge will be here.

With mum she is looking well. Will know more Thursday.

Right i am been paged to do my assignment Tell next time happy stitching.