The Oxford Australian 2020 Children’s Word of the Year (CWOTY) is ‘virus’, shining a light on how deeply the COVID-19 pandemic, remote learning and school closures have impacted students this year. To come to this decision, children’s language experts analysed ...

Cold. Dark. Lurking. Those were some the words children used to describe the coronavirus in Australia’s largest annual story-writing event. This year, Storyathon asked children to write about the topic ‘A different world – living in lockdown’ and 20,000 kids ...