‘Extra waves’: Fears Qld schools will never be the same
The classroom mask mandates are no more, but experts are concerned over schoolchildren getting over behavioural and emotional habits developed during learning at home.
Early Education
Dawn Fraser: Dump school swim program, give money to parents
Olympian Dawn Fraser says school swimming funding should be dumped and instead parents should be subsidised to pay for private lessons for their kids. VOTE IN THE POLL
‘Enormous problem’ as childcare worker numbers plummet
The number of qualified childhood educators working in Queensland has dropped below 2020 levels, following a dramatic decline in 2022.
$100k salary, five weeks’ leave for teacher prepared to make big move
A six-figure teaching job has gone begging for three years. Now locals are resorting to desperate measures to fill the position.
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Virus prompts spike in suicidal kids
A program designed to support anxious students as they head back to the classroom is being rolled out, amid a wave of self harm cases in kids triggered by the COVID-19 lockdown.
How Generation Iso is equipped for life
Their parents and grandparents have seen nothing like it in their lifetimes, and for these kids the coronavirus pandemic will steel them for their own future.
Smart ways to keep kids learning while stuck at home
Kids being kept away from school because of the coronavirus outbreak now have curriculum-based activities at their fingertips for free.
The Wiggles under fire for going on TikTok
Cyber safety experts are alarmed after much loved children’s group The Wiggles opened an account on the video sharing app TikTok, which has an age limit of 13 and over.
Desperate kindergarten asks parents to send toilet paper
A Sydney kindergarten has pleaded with parents to send toilet paper and baby wipes to school with their children until the panic-buying ‘hysteria’ dies down.
Death of NAPLAN? Teachers vote to boycott divisive tests
The Queensland Government has lodged an urgent dispute application to stop the state’s powerful teachers’ union from balloting members on whether NAPLAN should be boycotted.
Call for more ‘father figures’ in schools and kindy
The National Children’s Commissioner has called for more men to work in schools and daycare centres as “father figures’’ for kids with single mothers.
Mum’s terrifying story in wake of daycare bus death
A Queensland mum says her daughter remains traumatised after being left on a daycare minibus several months before another tragic incident left a three-year-old dead.
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