The best educational apps for your child
Educational apps are leading the change for learning both in and outside classrooms across the country with parents, experts and principals revealing their tips and tricks ahead of the start of school.
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What you need to know before you hire a tutor for your child
As more than four million Australian students get set to return to the classroom, tutors are already getting booked up fast with pupils keen to get a head start on their learning.
NT community fights to keep popular preschool program
A popular preschool trial has been quietly scrapped by the CLP, leading to members of a rural community to fight for it to be reinstated.
Explicit teaching, dream big: One school’s secret to NAPLAN success
A consistently remarkable southwest Sydney high school credits another year of NAPLAN success to a particular teaching style – and students’ ability to dream big.
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Toddlers being turned into activists at childcare: Report
The federal government’s Early Years Learning Framework has been criticised for “indoctrinating infants and toddlers to radical social justice theory”.
The other ‘public health issue’ for our children besides social media
Consent education became mandatory for all schoolchildren in May 2023, now there are calls to also focus on porn literacy with rates of teens accessing explicit material a “public health issue”.
Most expensive Tasmania childcare fees by suburb
New data has revealed the most expensive – and the most affordable – suburbs for long day care fees in Tasmania. See where you can save and how to snag cheaper childcare.
Tasmania’s most crowded classrooms revealed in new data
Tasmania’s most crowded classrooms have been revealed, with new data showing which schools appear to be most in need of additional teachers. SEARCH YOUR SCHOOL
‘I was assaulted by a 7yo’: Young teacher blows lid off classroom chaos
Just four years into the career she’d dreamt about, Olivia is on the brink of abandoning teaching altogether. Here she reveals the brutal reality of life in the classroom.
What’s driving disrespect in the classroom
Teachers are being abused, threatened and bullied regularly by students and their parents, with lenient consequences for bad behaviour among the issues driving disrespect in schools.
Everything you need to know about the return to school
Victorian parents are rushing to buy last minute school supplies as thousands of children head back to school next week. Here’s everything you need to know about preparing for Term 1.
Top of the class: Why ace students were inspired to become doctors
Not only did Julia Rathie and Janithya Dharmawardhane both score ATARs above 99, they have also committed to medicine this year. Read about the special people who inspired them to become doctors
Ranked: FNQ’s best, worst performing NAPLAN 2023 schools
An independent analysis of newly-released 2023 NAPLAN results has revealed the schools which performed the best in the Year 5 and Year 9 tests.
ATAR 2023: Full list of Tasmania’s best and brightest students
Exam stress turns into joy for talented Hobart students who celebrate being among the nation’s best ranked in their end-of-year results. See the full list of Tasmania’s 102 best ATAR achievers.
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