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Eilidh Sproul-Mellis is the education reporter at The Daily Telegraph, covering all stages from early learning and child development to tertiary education and young people in the workforce. She holds a special interest in cyber issues and was previously a digital producer at the masthead.

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NSW boating safety officer Troy Polidano performs safety checks in Botany Bay to ensure boat users have the appropriate safety equipment.Photo: Tom Parrish

Seaside blitz to save school holidays turning deadly

Authorities are pleading with families to “make the right choice” on the water after 14 people drowned without life jackets. It comes ahead of a warm, sunny school holiday period.

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Low-cost activities for school holiday fun

Sydney’s ultimate Easter school holiday survival guide

Sydney’s parks, art galleries and museums are offering up dozens of free and low-cost activities to keep kids busy. Here’s your guide to what’s on these Easter school holidays.

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A Tesla sign with a swastika on it has been posted outside Mosman High. Picture: Supplied

‘Distressing’: Nazi-themed sign pasted near Sydney high school

Members of the Sydney Jewish community have called on police to investigate vandalism outside Mosman High School which contained racist Nazi imagery in an apparent anti-Tesla protest.

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Revealed: Sydney’s top 100 secondary schools

The top 100 secondary schools in Sydney have been named, with many government colleges achieving top marks in key subjects and outperforming private campuses. See the full list.

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Full list: Free childcare for these Sydney suburbs

Almost half of Western Sydney is considered a childcare desert, but construction of 40 new public preschools will begin this year under a $200 million deal. See where they’ll be built.

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Coalition vows to sack ‘extraordinarily radical’ schools boss

NSW Coalition leader Mark Speakman has vowed to sack the current head of the Education Department if he wins the next state election. Read the latest.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire - 08 APRIL 2025:NSW Premier Chris Minns addresses the press from Kogarah High School.Picture: Christian Gilles / NewsWire

‘Entitled to his view’: Premier reacts to ABC private school controversy

The ABC has kicked off a culture war over private education, sparking fierce retribution from the Catholic school sector to controversial remarks from the boss of the NSW education department.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL APRIL 4, 2025, PLEASE CONTACT WEEKEND PIC EDITOR TIM HUNTER BEFORE PUBLISHING. Rumbi Mabambe is the executive director of Chain Reaction Foundation, a Mt Druitt charity doing early intervention with behaviourally challenged kids, and an expert in adolescent social cohesion. Picture: Jonathan Ng

‘Kids don’t have a union’: Experts slam unsafe school suspensions

Troubled kids who are suspended from school need better access to supervised, safe alternatives to abusive homes, experts have warned, following the suicide death of 15-year-old Harmony.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH APRIL 7, 2025. Students at The Forest High School will be staffing Lifeline's first ever in-school Op Shop, opening today Forest Fashion is in a disused storage room in the school's art department.Run by students at lunchtime and stocked by lifeline with the profits split between the school and Lifeline. Volunteer student Penny Fuller, 14, (right) helping student Melina Diphoorn, 13, choose some items. Picture: Jonathan Ng

‘Grannycore’ TikTok trend taking over northern Sydney school

Gen Zs are driving a resurgence in the popularity of second-hand clothing and kids at The Forest High School are no exception, setting up crisis support charity Lifeline’s first in-school thrift shop.

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Schools kept suspending Harmony - but they were just sending her home to her mum’s drug den. Now she’s dead and the coroner has blasted the government.

How we failed Harmony: Coroner’s scathing report into teen’s suicide

A “charismatic and affectionate” teen took her own life after a spate of suspensions from a regional NSW school. Her horrifying story will send shockwaves through the education system.

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