Schools

Over the years, Jamahl Ali has thrived with support from his teachers, family and therapists. Now this boy with "a very kind heart" is leading his peers at Toronto Public School.

The NSW Environment Protection Agency said that 41 sites have been identified as having bonded asbestos, with 683 tests returning negative results since last month.

St Luke's Catholic College in Marsden Park and Penrith Christian School in Orchard Hills join the growing list of sites found to contain contaminated mulch.

While there's no substitute for a qualified teacher, we've asked experts for their best tips for parents who want to help teach their kids to read at home. 

The horrific death toll on Victoria's roads last year has brought young driver safety awareness into renewed focus, with some advocating for comprehensive driver education in schools.

The NSW environment watchdog embarks on the biggest investigation in its history, as some schools anxiously wait on results to see if they'll join the list of sites with asbestos contaminated mulch.

A former primary school student is suing the Toowoomba Catholic Diocese for $1.7 million in damages for alleged abuse dating back to the late 2000s.

The environment protection body is continuing its investigation into the supply chain which has seen potentially asbestos contaminated mulch testing broaden to include seven schools across Sydney, a Woolworths supermarket and a hospital.

Michelle Williams was 18 when she first got a taste of working as a governess. She has returned to Far West NSW to work for the same family, a generation apart.

The police were called by staff at primary and special needs schools more than 800 times in a single year.

Child and education advocates say the figures should be a "wake-up call" that schools need more funding and support to manage at-risk students.

Child and education advocates say the figures should be a "wake-up call" that schools need more funding and support to manage at-risk students.

A series of "subtle" changes in a popular, athletic, and intelligent 13-year-old Darwin student may have been a sign that her mental health was suffering before her death in 2022, the NT coroner has heard.

Private school enrolments have soared for the third straight year as parents leave the public system in record numbers in favour of independent or Catholic schools.

At 13 years old, Darwin girl Grace "had her whole life ahead of her". A coronial inquest is examining the circumstances surrounding her death in 2022. 

Western Australia has new guidelines limiting ham in school canteens. Parents are reportedly confused and frustrated. So what has changed and what evidence is it based on?

A reading revolution at a small, disadvantaged public school in regional Victoria could provide the blueprint for turning around alarming literacy rates in Australia's 10,000 primary schools.

A Grattan Institute report says a teaching method called 'whole language'' is to blame for one third of Australian students failing to learn to read proficiently.

The Grattan Institute report says one-third of Australia's 4 million school children lack proper reading skills.

One-third of Australian students are failing to learn to read proficiently, at an estimated cost to the economy of $40 billion, according to a new study. 

Managing menstruation in public can be challenging at the best of times, but imagine being eight years old and having to deal with your period at school. Here's how teachers can make it easier.

The mould is so serious that school building may need to be demolished.

The NT government has committed to rolling out a specialist mental health education framework in all of its schools from next year. Tailored to the needs of territory kids, teachers and principals say it helps support the "emotional wellbeing" of students.

An ambulance spokesman says the students reportedly ingested an unknown substance from a bag, and paramedics arrived to find one of the teens vomiting.

More scorching hot weather is on the cards for Perth, just days after another heatwave broke weather records across Western Australia.