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| UpdatedAn Adelaide kindy sent home a note asking a child's parents to pack healthier food. The mother should pack two slices tomorrow, writes Melinda Tankard Reist.
Topics: children, parenting, preschool, primary, child-health-and-behaviour, australia
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| UpdatedA tiny plastic farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green overalls does his bit to raise awareness of Australian agriculture.
Topics: rural, farm-labour, human-interest, offbeat, primary, education, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, tocumwal-2714, nsw
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| UpdatedTeachers are leaving the profession in significant numbers, disrupting school communities and impairing student learning. So why aren't we tracking the reasons why they leave?
Topics: teachers, children, primary, professional-development, schools, australia
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Tears and nervous excitement are in equal measure as more than 8,000 young Canberrans kick off their first year at school.
Topics: primary-schools, schools, primary, education, palmerston-2913, gungahlin-2912, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government is considering introducing mandatory skills testing for Year One students, a move which Labor says will not help improve Australia's international education ranking.
Topics: education, government-and-politics, federal-government, primary, australia
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| UpdatedGot the books, pens, technology, the right bag and uniforms — check. But what about school shoes?
Topics: schools, primary, parenting, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedIt's back to school for thousands of children. But for kids like 11-year-old Drewe Mace, it involves travelling hundreds of kilometres to start their school year.
Topics: primary, education, schools, youth, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedThe latest national NAPLAN report shows the ACT — along with NSW and Victoria — continues to lead the nation in academic performance.
Topics: education, primary, secondary, act, canberra-2600, australia
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Timbumburi Primary School debate team argues its way to the top.
Topics: education, primary, schools, primary-schools, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedYarloop Primary School will re-open in 2017, one year on from January's devastating bushfire, following a backflip by Western Australia's Education Minister.
Topics: fires, bushfire, primary-schools, primary, states-and-territories, yarloop-6218, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedA decision not to re-open Yarloop Primary School next year is condemned by parents who say their children have been "caged" at a temporary host school.
Topics: primary-schools, primary, states-and-territories, yarloop-6218, wa
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Unable to find an illustrated children's book to easily explain her chronic fatigue syndrome to her nephews and nieces, Megan Schartner has self-published her own.
Topics: chronic-fatigue-syndrome, people, books-literature, primary, adelaide-5000
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Schools throughout far north Queensland are teaching students to breathe properly.
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Schools throughout far north Queensland are hoping that teaching students to breathe properly will help them achieve better academic results.
Topics: primary, children, stress, mental-health, health, primary-schools, cairns-4870
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Topics: poetry, primary, winton-4735
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Topics: poetry, primary, winton-4735
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Topics: poetry, primary, winton-4735
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Hundreds of outback Queensland children travelled hundreds of kilometres to compete in a poetry festival hosted in the town known as the birthplace of Waltzing Matilda.
Topics: poetry, primary, winton-4735, hughenden-4821, boulia-4829, longreach-4730, barcaldine-4725
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Topics: poetry, primary, winton-4735
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Topics: music, music-education, primary-schools, primary, boyne-island-4680
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Topics: music, music-education, primary-schools, primary, boyne-island-4680
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| UpdatedA small primary school on the Capricornia coast joins a select few lucky enough to own a timpani.
Topics: music, music-education, primary-schools, primary, boyne-island-4680
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| UpdatedFrustrated parents consider pulling their children out of Dunalley Primary School because of ongoing mould problems.
Topics: education, primary, primary-schools, government-and-politics, dunalley-7177, tas
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Central Queensland University is teaming up with a Bundaberg primary school to give students their own experience of flying a drone.
Topics: primary, primary-schools, science-and-technology, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, education, bundaberg-4670
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Thousands of Queensland students use their love of learning to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever practical science lesson.
Topics: science-and-technology, science, human-interest, primary-schools, primary, brisbane-4000