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Health and Wellbeing
Making the right moves: how playing chess can make students less risk averse and better prepared for life
While the worldwide smash Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit is about a whole lot more than chess, viewers like myself…
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In the News
Sound advice: Classroom acoustics linked to student success
How poor classroom acoustics are linked to lower skill levels in students. If you feel you’re struggling to maintain discipline…
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In the News
McCain’s advice for school students: serve others, appreciate what you have
It was a case of the young and the old: teenagers and 80-year-old John McCain. At an event in Sydney on…
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In the News
Video games better than TV for kids
Children could be better off playing video games over the school holidays than watching television, a new study shows. Dr…
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Students jet lagged for school start
Start adjusting your child’s sleep schedule now to avoid them feeling jet lagged for the first few weeks of school,…
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Move to make indigenous children ‘resilient’
A “strengths-based approach” to school readiness is needed to recognise the knowledge and understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children…
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Less is better for K-6 homework
New research shows homework has little benefit to primary school children and that too much could be a bad thing.…
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In The Classroom
Building a school brick by brick
An Australian teacher has answered her father-in-law's special request and helped build St Jude's in Tanzania, which now teaches 1500…
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