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Perth’s Christ Church Grammar School will soon be home to Australia’s largest school solar powered system. Chairman John Poynton said the 670 kilowatt solar photovoltaic system was expected to save around $195,000 and also provide an example of effective clean ...

Internationally recognised high school mathematics teacher Eddie Woo has been selected to deliver this year’s NSW Australia Day Address. Premier Gladys Berejiklian made the announcement last week, and praised the Cherrybrook Technology High School teacher for transforming the way students ...

A new report details the benefits of outdoor youth programs and camping for primary and high school students, and aims to inform future decision-making on the topic. A study by the Outdoor Youth Programs Research Alliance (OYPRA), recently published in ...

Melbourne’s first vertical public school is almost complete and will open in time for the start of Term 1. The new South Melbourne Primary School will cater for more than 500 students from Prep to Year 6, and was the ...

Queensland’s Park Lake State School will soon be the owner of the first Australian playground made entirely from recycled beauty products. Students won the $45,000 playground by participating in the national Garnier Recycled Playground Competition, which saw schools around the ...

Letting your children play video games these summer holidays may actually be a good idea – it could even point them towards a career in engineering. Games such as Minecraft have found their way into classrooms, and experts say their value ...

NSW public school’s have dominated this year’s HSC First in Course list, with 73 of 114 courses topped by public school students. Sydney Boys High School was the most successful public school on the list, earning eight First in Course ...

It’s essential to test children for speech and language disorders, but applying monolingual tests to multilingual children only leads to poor diagnoses and damaged learning outcomes, experts say. The comments were made by linguistics scholar Dr Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, who this ...

The majority of Gen Z students feel unprepared to leave school and want access to more hands-on and creative learning experiences in the classroom, a new study has found. The Adobe study, Gen Z in the Classroom: Creating the Future, ...

Studies show girls are 25 per cent less confident in their ability to learn maths than boys, but a new national mentoring program aims to alter this reality. The mathematics network is now being piloted in five states (NSW, QLD, ...