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Teaching Resources
CASE STUDY: Stellar science room revamp for St Catherine’s School
School News approached Barry Madden the Facilities Manager at St Catherine’s School to talk about how the school responded to…
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Food & Beverage
Swap shapes for rice crackers, chips for popcorn… parents can improve their kids’ diet with these healthier lunchbox options
Healthy lunchboxes can play a big role in positively influencing students behaviour in the classroom, academic achievement, health and weight.
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Education
Aussie kids’ financial knowledge is on the decline. The proposed national curriculum has downgraded it even further
There is no independent financial literacy strand in the Australian Curriculum, but a sub-strand exists within maths. This is clearly…
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Education
Setting goals to beat previous efforts improves educational outcomes. And the gains are bigger for disadvantaged students
We found students who set goals like these were much more engaged in school than those who didn’t. And the…
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News
“To reverse decline in school standards, focus on teacher training,” says gov
The average 15-year-old Singaporean school student is now three years ahead of the average 15-year-old Australian in mathematics and 18…
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Aussie kids are some of the least active in the world. We developed a cheap school program that gets results
We developed and tested a program that trains teachers and schools to enhance the physical activity of their students long-term.…
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News
More stress, unclear gains: are selective schools really worth it?
Selective schools are known for being consistently high-performing, producing some of the highest final-year secondary school outcomes. The chances of…
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News
The Senate has voted to reject critical race theory from the national curriculum. What is it, and why does it matter?
The motion was moved by Senator Pauline Hanson. Critical race theory, or CRT, is an academic theory developed primarily by…
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News
Investment in modern classrooms would lift student performance
“Public school enrolments have grown by 300,000 over the last decade and there will be an additional 200,000 students entering…
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News
Free schools guide about inclusiveness and climate science is not ideological — it’s based on evidence
Topics such as “superdiversity” and “declaring a climate emergency” are only only a small selection of the 35 other topics...…
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