Our Philosophy

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To entertain children while teaching them foundational educational skills.

What inspired The Amazing House?

The Amazing House started as an idea for Alex when she was sitting in her first education lecture at University. How could she combine her love and experience as a children's entertainer and her love for teaching children who were at risk of reading failure?

Well... two years later The Amazing House appeared! She went to her parents and from day one their support has been critical!

The Amazing House is all about teaching children "stuff!" Series one is inspired by statistics that show how many children struggle when first learning to read. Some children never quite overcome this and, therefore, have a major setback throughout their school lives and even their lives as adults!

So why do we need The Amazing House?

The national assessment in Australia is NAPLAN (National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy). Every school student in the years 3, 5, 7 and 9 must participate in these tests. NAPLAN provides a good indication of performance of students.

The NAPLAN 2008 results show that in literacy, 6% of year 3 (9 year olds) students fail to meet the minimum national benchmark. While in Year 5 (11 year olds), 7.5% of students fail to meet the minimum benchmark! This is because they fail in basic foundational language skills such as reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Therefore, there is a significant rate of literacy failure in Australia. It works out to be 3-5 students in every class who will experience literacy failure and after Year 3 these students never quite catch up to their peers. This rate of literacy failure is also growing.

The Amazing House helps to address the need to for students to have a solid foundation in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation through the different aspects of each episode. For more information see the section WHAT WE TEACH.