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Australians could receive their Covid-19 jab at schools, sports stadiums, supermarkets or shopping centres as part of a nationwide blitz to get everyone vaccinated by the end of the year. National Covid vaccine task force co-ordinator Lieutenant General John Frewen ...

Short active breaks during class have been shown to improve a child's brain function and aid learning. New research dismisses the notion that children need to be sat down all day to learn effectively, and short bursts of activity help ...

Two schools in Sydney have closed due to Covid-19 exposure, including a primary school in the Hills shire. St Bernadette’s Primary Castle Hill was slammed shut after a person who attended the after hours service provided by the school tested ...

Teaching young people how to have respectful relationships is one of the most important things we can do as educators. But without a comprehensive understanding and nuanced approach to the issue, conversations around consent, respect, and relationships can become fraught ...

With the announcement that the NSW lockdown has been extended for four more weeks and continually rising COVID-19 cases in the greater Sydney area, this years' HSC has been thrown further into chaos. Alongside the lockdown announcement, Premier Gladys Berejiklian ...

Brendan James Murray is haunted. Well, to be grammatically correct, his school is haunted, but Brendan is tormented by the ghosts that wander the halls. The ghosts of children with unfulfilled potential, ghosts of others who couldn't be reached and ...

School‐aged children are being exposed to an increasing number of vaping and e‐cigarette videos on TikTok, prompting calls for more regulation of the social media platform. University of Queensland researchers analysed more than 800 videos featuring the modern smoking practice. ...

Over half of children with mental health disorders have trouble accessing the medical help they need, according to new research. Canadian researchers have found that one in eight children suffer from a mental health disorder and only 44.2 per cent ...

With Sydney schools moving to home learning once again, and COVID-19’s highly contagious Delta strain making the possibility of other states following in the coming weeks, jaded teachers must adapt their lessons for online delivery. For many teachers, this means ...

Schools with green surroundings may have better academic performance as a result, new research has found. A study from the Australian Catholic University also found that exposure to high levels of traffic-related noise pollution could be detrimental to academic performance. ...