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‘Too complex’: Maths curriculum under review as fewer students take STEM

The federal government will review early years maths following concerns it’s ‘too complex’ as senior student STEM participation rates continue to fall.

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Prep students at Galilee Catholic Primary School after successfully transitioning. Noah (6), Jordan (6), Edith (5), Lilamrita (6) and John (6). Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Early Education

‘My teacher and me’: Preps reveal what they love about school

Kids in their first year of school have drawn pictures of what makes them happy and safe as part of a new study into school transition. SEE THE PICTURES

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Geelong's lunchbox king George Georgievski and his two kids, Kiara and Anela. Picture: Supplied

Aussie dad steps up as parents push back on lunchbox demands

Australian parents are fighting back against complex school lunch box rules that force them to juggle nutrition, allergies and eco-friendly packaging requirements.

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Bully intimidates a skinny kid.

Bullies – stop blaming your upbringing and own your bad choices

Bullying is a choice and perpetrators should take responsibility for their actions instead of blaming their parents, say two professors with some tough love for bullies.

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KIDS NEWS/2025 PM'S SPELLING BEE- please do not use until after the Bee story publishes SUN 17 AUG, 2025. Australian Cricket Captain and UNICEF Australia Ambassador Pat Cummins visits a government school in Lucknow, India to see how UNICEF is working with communities and government to make sure that all children have access to quality education and has lent his support to the PM's Spelling Bee. Picture: UNICEF/supplied

Pat Cummins bowled over by Spelling Bee response

More than 72,000 students have registered for the fifth annual Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee as cricket legend Pat Cummins shares why childhood literacy hits so close to home.

Adelaide teacher Luke Springer, better known on TikTok as I Am Mr Luke.

TikTok teachers turning classroom content into clicks and cash

TikTok teachers are inspiring, educating and entertaining millions of students. Check out some of the brilliant videos created by turning classroom chaos into clickable content.

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St Ignatius' College students younger than year 3 won't have access to digital devices and their peers up to year 9 will be limited to at most 50 per cent of their learning with technology. Reception students, Mila and Charlie, are the faces of a new approach to learning. 12 August 2025. Picture: Dean Martin

Top 100 private school introduces nation-leading tech ban for kids

A leading private school is banning technology for junior students and heavily restricting it up to year 9 as its principal questions the dominance of screens in classrooms.

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Discrimination payout to girl with autism after tirade from principal

A seven-year-old autistic student has won a significant payout over comments from her principal. See what lawyers say makes a successful disability discrimination claim.

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SENIOR/PENSIONER/MATURE/ELDERLY/OVER 65/GRANDPARENT/RETIREE/SUPERANNUATION. Picture: istock Loving senior grandmother hug shoulders of small girl grandchild assist in preparing homework support give advice. Friendly aged woman teacher watching little kid pupil writing maths problem solution

The five-minute maths homework hack this teacher swears by

Mathematics expert and mother-of-four Dr Ange Rogers reveals three simple ways parents can boost their children’s numeracy skills without creating homework stress.

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Education Pic of Ben Sacco with a prep class at Saltwater P-9 College. Picture by Wayne Taylor 2nd July 2025

Classrooms in chaos – when teachers are part of the problem

Education expert Ben Sacco explains why teachers who hand out detentions to disruptive students could just be making their classroom discipline problems worse.

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Four Young Girls Hanging Out Together In Park Smiling To Camera. Author Rosie Schonell is celebrating the non-academic kids in her new novel. Picture: iStock

Tween author: Why my heroine is a non-academic kid

When it came to choosing a heroine for her debut teen novel, author and teacher Rosie Schonell decided to celebrate the non-academic kids. Here’s why.

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Airdale School Port Pirie teacher Kefei Wang outside the Adelaide Magistrates Court, with his barrister Michelle Barnes, after pleading guilty to the aggravated physical assault of a seven-year-old student. Picture: Sean Fewster

Teacher takes fall: Left to teach in chaos, then locked up

A first-year teacher and music genius who came to Australia to help kids was left in a classroom of chaos without help. A court has shown him sympathy, dismissing an assault charge.

Claire Clutteham playing the piano

I was emotionally crippled by cruel school bullies – now I’m a federal MP

With raw and powerful honesty, new federal MP Claire Clutterham tells how being relentlessly bullied in the schoolyard shaped her determination to stand up for others.

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Educational psychologist Clare Rowe and one of the signs produced by a primary schooler for the Deakin University Idle Off project.

Generation Greta: Kids recruited to nag parents at school drop-off

A uni project urges primary schoolers to tell parents to switch off their cars outside schools – but one expert says mums and dads don’t welcome “lectures from their 7-year-olds”.

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