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Students at The Entrance Public School

‘We haven’t looked back’: How these eight schools are turning around results

It started with one humble Central Coast school. Now a teaching revolution is sweeping the district.

  • Lucy Carroll

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Cash-strapped principals are turning their backs on charitable funding over complaints the money too often comes with “onerous” strings attached.

WA schools ‘left in limbo’ while major review in the lurch: opposition

The state’s opposition and advocates are calling on Education Minister Sabine Winton to release the findings as a matter of urgency.

  • Holly Thompson
Students at Officer Specialist School. A sailing program to help transform the lives of students from low-socio-economic backgrounds and refugee backgroudns who are living with a disability. Student Dylan at the steering wheel.

High spirits on the high seas for adventurous students

Wide-eyed and wind-swept, Dylan and his classmates from Officer Specialist School stretched their horizons on an ocean racing yacht.

  • Nicole Precel
Aymen, 8, with the bookish kittens.

Want to lift your children’s reading skills? Get them to read to kittens

Reading aloud to a non-judgmental audience – such as kittens – can help increase children’s motivation and confidence in reading.

  • Bridie Smith
Jiress Musafiri, from the Australian African Foundation for Retention and Opportunity.

Off-the-books school suspensions fuelling Melbourne’s youth crime crisis

Informal suspensions and expulsions are fuelling school disengagement in Melbourne and experts see a clear link to the youth crime crisis.

  • Nicole Precel
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research show 28 sexual offences by minors on school grounds were reported to police in 2022, and 37 in 2023.

‘It’s not a voucher’: This is how Queensland’s $100 back-to-school bonus will work

When a school hat costs $90, the payment, which will not be handed directly to families as a voucher, might not stretch far.

  • Felicity Caldwell
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Lily Stewart with her children Nina and Louie.

Parents in the dark as northern beaches school faces axe

A school in Sydney’s north is at risk of closing its doors after the school lost more than 200 students over the past six years.

  • Lucy Carroll
St John’s primary School in Footscray is bussing its year 5 and 6 kids to nearby Caroline Chisholm Catholic College at Braybook.

Crumbling school hall forces students to miss an hour of class each day

Senior pupils at a primary school in Melbourne’s inner west are being transported by bus to a nearby college every day because of an “unsafe” building.

  • Caroline Schelle
Students at Liverpool Public

The hurdle one in four NSW school students needs to overcome

It takes six years for students from non-English-speaking backgrounds to keep up in class, with experts warning they are being misdiagnosed with learning disorders.

  • Emily Kowal
Resident and former teacher Christine Wright with Isaac Morrison, Jonathon Bateman and Tracian Ghirocian at Whiddon Easton Park retirement centre, in Glenfield. They love visiting their grandbuddy Christine.

Why talking to a 90-year-old should be part of every school’s curriculum

Twice a week, pupils from Glenwood Public School walk over to a nearby nursing home to visit their “grand buddies”.

  • Emily Kowal

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