Schools Excursion Incursion & Camp Guide 2024

NSW Education Minister Prue Car has proposed that every Year 1 primary school student across the country take a numeracy test, because kids who are struggling need to be identified and helped much earlier.

New Zealand’s education woes have been well documented in recent years.

Building on its outstanding success in Victoria, where 94 per cent of participants are teaching after graduating, a new cohort of aspiring primary teachers will start their journey through the Nexus program from Term 4 in New South Wales schools facing critical staffing shortages.

Xavier College has made a bold structural change to its middle leadership set-up, and so far the move has seen decision fatigue trending down, workloads slashed and daily mechanics streamlined.

Matt Hopkins believes he’s got the precise formula that works to reengage even the most troubled, disruptive and educationally challenged students and sets them on the path to academic mastery and success.

Just as the emergence of hand-held calculators didn’t negate the need for children to master basic arithmetic, AI tools don’t change what is most important for students to acquire at school: disciplinary knowledge and writing skills.

Just a few minutes into Tom Bennett’s first lesson as a new teacher, a wayward student entered his classroom, made his way to the back, and proceeded to openly begin selling drugs to his classmates.

Luke S Kennedy knows too well what it’s like to carve out a life weighed down by labels and the scourge of negative self-belief.

As 350 passionate Kiwi teachers squeezed into the gym at Summerland Primary School – on a Saturday no less – it dawned on Jo Jessep just how hungry the sector is for change.

The Centre for Brain Research was buzzing with excitement this month, when 173 Year 11 students descended on Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland to compete in the annual Brain Bee neuroscience challenge.

Plant growing technologies, energy generating wind farms and biofuels were just some of the student projects on show during this year’s Taranaki Primary Schools Science and Engineering Fair.

Western Australia’s Donna Buckley is this year’s proud recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools.