Some children are born more resilient to change; others can need more support to manage.
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Children feel worried or nervous in a new situation if they think something bad might happen or if they feel they won’t be able to handle the situation.
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Schools have a duty to teach children morality, but which moral values should they teach?
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The royal commission’s work, and the testimony of survivors, has brought to light an issue that has been denied for far too long.
A place for dialogue, not suspicion.
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The government’s increasing focus on ‘extremism’ may be promoting rather than preventing violence.
Mental disorders affected one in seven students and were associated with being less connected and engaged at school, having lower attendance rates, and poorer academic outcomes than their peers.
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A national survey has shown Australian school students with a mental disorder can be almost three years behind in their studies by the time they sit their final NAPLAN test in year nine.
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A living curriculum is needed to properly teach children about sex and relationships.
NAPLAN results should also be considered in relation to other standardised assessments, which do not always tell the same story.
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The results are in, and student achievement on NAPLAN has plateaued in literacy and numeracy, with some areas of improvement.
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Democracy relies on political education.
The six-part drama revisits the funny, messy, mixed-up lives of the Hughes and Scott families as they struggle to do their best as parents.
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Negative experiences in mainstream schools have harmful long-term effects on pupils with autism spectrum conditions.
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When it comes to engaging young people in their school studies, inclusivity means a lot.
Children decide who can be a superhero.
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Children are often the ones who decide what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.
Making sure all religions are accounted for in British schools.
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There needs to be an urgent debate on the education of Muslim pupils in British schools, but this seems impossible in the current climate.
More still needs to be done to improve trans pupils’ experiences.
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New guidance urging schools to stop making pupils conform to gender stereotypes is a step in the right direction.
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A few of the ways violence may create even more violence.
A primary function of school displays should be to allow children to see their own work around the classroom and school walls.
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Schools should carefully consider the messages that are sent by how they have constructed the learning environment.
As a community we need proactive, positive strategies to reduce youth self-harm and suicide.
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Youth suicide has reached a ten year high, but suicide and self-harm are still taboo topics in schools.
For Socrates, tolerance is fundamentally about equality and the pursuit of truth.
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Schools and universities have a responsibility to protect students from hate speech while also exposing them to views that disrupt their ways of thinking and ideas of the world.
The National School Chaplaincy Program, introduced in 2007, is available in more than 3,000 Australian schools.
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Religious education offered in Australian state schools has variations in the quality of delivery and limited provisions for the students who opt out.
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What schools should be doing to deal with the crisis in children’s mental health.
School children today face a huge amount of pressure.
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The government is making £200,000 available to train teachers in how to deal with mental health issues in secondary school children.