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It’s that time of the year when school reports on student learning come home. Anxiety for students and their parents and caregivers often tags along. Long gone are the days when school reports were a single handwritten page, with wisdom like “tried hard, but needs to try harder”, along with percentages or letter grades. Now …

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School holidays with high school kids is a very different challenge to when the kids were in primary school. The holiday program arrangements that once enabled parents to juggle work commitments may no longer be suitable or even available. You may find your child is at home largely unattended for two or three weeks. This …

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Sometimes it can be incredibly overwhelming to use the internet to research for a project or a class task, so we have devised a list of 10 free chrome extensions for school to help you out a bit. Try these free Chrome extensions for school 1. Mybib Mybib is an extension that generates either APA …

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Believe us, you need a study playlist in your life! Listening to gentle music has been proven to help with cognitive tasks, it helps your brain function and allows it to process new information faster and more effectively. It does this by; 1. Improving a person’s mood which in turn leads to less distractions, and …

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As the school year hits the half-way mark, many Year 6 students and their families will be starting to think more about the move to high school next year. Moving to secondary school is a big change for young people. In addition to hearing stories – good and bad – on the school grapevine, students …

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We can all agree that semester one was rough… but semester two gives us all a chance to hit the reset button and completely smash the second half of the year. You aren’t going to get the results you need if you just do the same old thing as you did in semester one. Or, …

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