WHERE’S ALL THE TOILET PAPER?

‘WHERE’S ALL THE TOILET PAPER?’: ANSWERING KIDS’ CORONAVIRUS QUESTIONS What is the coronavirus? Can I have play dates and birthday parties? Can we help? The kids have questions! So we have gathered them up and answered them in a way the young ones will understand. We even got them to illustrate the story. Have you…

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‘CAPTAIN’ TOM RYAN SWOOPS IN ON 69 SCHOOLS IN 18 DAghgYS

ABC Northern Tasmania recently caught up with RFDS Victoria Education Manager Tom Ryan doing a ‘fly-drive’ visit to Tasmanian schools. Tom has been towing our aero-medical simulator to schools all over the State, speaking to 69 classes in 18 days. Rick Eaves climbed aboard the trailer-bound plane at the East Ulverstone Primary School and found…

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HERALD SUN KIDS NEWS

AUSTRALIA’s Royal Flying Doctor Service turns 90 this month. And they’ll be celebrating burning toilet rolls, among other things. The RFDS has been saving lives and finding solutions* on how to reach people since 1928. Using burning toilet rolls to light up make-shift* runways is just one of those amazing solutions. Click here to read…

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BY CHLOE JORDAN AND SOPHIE REYNOLDS | 5 JUNE 2017

On Monday the 5th of June 2017, the royal flying doctors service came to our school to visit and teach us about their service and their work. It was fun and it taught us many interesting facts. Tom taught us about the Royal Flying Doctors service, he has visited our school a few years ago.…

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Sunraysia Daily | 21 April 2017

A LIFE-size Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) aeromedical simulator will be on display in Mildura this weekend as part of Sunraysia support group fundraising efforts. The simulator, measuring almost five metres long, offers an activity for young and old and will be at Mildura Bunnings Ware- house in Fifteenth Street tomorrow between 10am and 4pm.…

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SUNRAYSIA DAILY | 24 APRIL 2017

HUNDREDS of children took the controls of a Royal Flying Doctor Service aero- plane on Saturday. The simulator is in town for a week as part of an educational tour teaching families about the life- saving health services the RFDS provides. Stationed at Bunnings on Saturday, RFDS Victoria education manager Tom Ryan said the simulator…

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HERALD SUN | 10 NOVEMBER 2016

11-YEAR-OLD’S BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE RAISES $7000 FOR ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE TED Perton’s fundraising efforts are cooking with gas. The 11-year-old from Port Melbourne has cooked up over 65 kilograms of snags — and pumped out a sausage a minute outside Bunnings — in a bid to raise money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.…

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LOOK UP IN THE SKY! IT’S THE FLYING DOCTOR!

Launching on Monday 23 May, the Royal Flying Doctor Service is making education easier with its new online resources for students from Grade 2 to 6. The rich and vibrant history of the Flying Doctor is a great backdrop for children to learn about Australia. The new online resource, with videos, lessons, resources and more,…

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LAUNCH FOR LUITS TEACHING RESOURCE

Since its inception in 2011, the RFDS Education Program has reached over 15,000 students across Victoria, Tasmania and NSW. The program is multi-faceted in that it combines an incursion program supported by high level and relevant teaching resources into Primary schools. Our goal was to make this resource useful to the classroom teacher in implementing…

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