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Stars of year 12 provide advice

We aced year 12 in 2024 – here are our tips to smash your exams

These three students excelled with stellar ATARs in the class of 2024. Here’s their advice for other teens on how to approach year 12 exams.

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Shailja Prasad and her daughter, Jiya Lyer at Mount Carmel College. Pictured on 8th October 2025. Picture: Ben Clark

Don’t panic about exam anxiety – it can actually boost your brain

Teenage brains are physically rewired by the stress of year 12 exams – but a leading neuroscientist says these simple techniques can help students perform at their best.

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1/10/25. Year 12 Exams - How parents can best support their teens as they complete their year 12 exams. Yr 12 CBC student Travis Cappelluti -17yrs with mum Alison. Picture: Keryn Stevens

What year 12s need to hear from mums and dads right now

Parents can be even more anxious than their kids during year 12 exams. Here’s how experts say mums and dads should support their teens at this stressful time.

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22 October 2025 Hampstead Primary School for story about schools where the demographics are changing as more well-educated professionals move into the area and enrol their children. Drushti 11, Adara 12, James 12 and Sultan 11. Pic RoyVPhotography

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Ranked: Every state’s most upwardly mobile schools

Official data for every Australian school reveals some have recorded a meteoric rise in the social status of their families over the past decade. Explore the stats for your school.

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Zoe Barby and her nine-year-old son Rylee, who is being homeschooled. Picture: Supplied

Struggling families hit with legal threats for kids missing school

Families dealing with children who refuse to go to school claim they’re being terrorised with prosecution threats while waiting months for homeschooling approval.

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Shannon Althouse, Blayze Williams, Owen Turnbull

Ex-bikies warn teens of ‘fork in the road’ choices that can derail their lives

Shannon’s talents were ignored at high school. Owen rebelled at his private college. Steve’s dyslexia meant he felt like an outcast. They found camaraderie in gangs – at a terrible cost.

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One of Sydney’s poshest schools bans smartphones

An elite Sydney school has joined the push to restrict smartphone access in class, announcing a plan for junior students to switch to ‘dumb phones’ by 2026.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - ADVERTISER Photos SEPTEMBER 25, 2025: Emily Harrison with her children Archie 8yrs (Shorts) and Olive Harrison 3.5yrs (Denim Jeans) and mates, Siblings Isabella Carbone 11yrs (Jumpsuit) and 10 year old twins James Carbone (Glasses) and Stella Carbone (Black Jeans) and Ava Sckrabei 6yrs (Green Shorts) playing in their Unley backyard. Emily is the SA lead in Wait MateÃ a not for profit organisation encouraging schools and parents to work together in reducing child mobile phone use Picture: Emma Brasier

Parents’ phone-free kids pact sweeps across Australia

Parents desperate to protect their kids from tech addiction have found strength in numbers, with a revolutionary no-phones movement spreading across Australian schools.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. September 28, 2025. (LtoR) Peta McGirr and daughter Victoria,10 years with Sarah Stephenson and her daughters Elke,10 years and Harriet 6 years old. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

North shore families seeing red over $4000 school uniform bill

North shore families are at war with the local Catholic diocese over its decision to close down multiple schools. At one campus, the move has already cost parents thousands of dollars.

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From sewage plants to a bottling factory, nudist beaches to a bacon slaughterhouse, our readers have recalled some of the most excruciating school excursions of their childhood.

A trip to the sewage plant, and other sh*tty school excursions

These days, pampered teens go on school trips to Europe, Japan or the ski fields. It’s a world away from the grim excursions endured by kids of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.

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Loreto College students.Young people can feel lonely at school. Loreto has a wellbeing program to address this. Year 11 student, Iris Hamilton, while not lonely herself, is happy to highlight the issue of loneliness at school. 25 September 2025. Picture: Dean Martin

‘Lonely spaces’: Aussie teens feeling lost in school crowds

New research reveals Australian students are experiencing intense loneliness at school, even when they’re surrounded by their peers.

New St Peter's College principal Tim Browning, who will start in January, 2018.

Principals at war: Private schools boot public kids from cricket comp

It was the only public school in a top cricket comp overseen by elite private school leaders – now it’s been forced out.

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Art for non binary Catholic teacher story

‘We’re not prejudiced – we already call non-binary teacher Mx Sanders’

The Catholic school at the centre of a national test case over the rights of a non-binary teacher is already inclusive, college insiders say.

Art for non binary Catholic teacher story

‘I’m Mx, not Mr’: Non-binary Catholic teacher’s discrimination lawsuit

A Catholic school teacher is fighting for their right to be called Mx rather than Mr in a case set to test federal discrimination laws in religious schools.

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