Kishwar Chowdhury,who is developing cooking classes for Caulfield Grammar students,with her son Mikayle.

Why some school students are learning 60 hours a week

Some schools are offering organised activities 12 hours a day,as parents juggle working and commuting with children’s needs.

  • Bridie Smith

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Preps eat pizza as a rewarded for coming to school every day of the term as part of Wyndham Park Primary’s effort to lift attendance rates.

Yo-yos,fidget spinners,pizza:Boosting school attendance one slice at a time

This school has worked out how to get students to turn up every day of term. And,as cheesy as it sounds,the answer was right under their noses.

  • Bridie Smith
Old Lady’s Primary School parents and students with canteen lunches.

Ordered on an app,packed in a brown paper bag:A school’s secret to a $6 canteen lunch

This rare parent-run canteen is so old-school that students get something with their lunch that money can’t buy:a note from their mum.

  • Bridie Smith
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a Sydney press conference on Friday.

As it happened:Politicians downplay Trump’s AUKUS flub;Star goes into trading halt

Keep up to date on today’s top stories with our national news blog.

  • Josefine Ganko andBridie Smith
New data reveals funding disparity between government schools in different states.

Private schools lobby vows federal election fight over ‘class-war rhetoric’

Seventeen seats have been designated “ground zero” in a campaign to pressure major parties to shore up billions of dollars in public funding.

  • Bridie Smith
Shelford girls celebrate the end of VCE in 2919. From the end of this year,their school will cease to exist.

One of Melbourne’s biggest private schools is about to get bigger

The private school giant will add a second junior campus to its portfolio after a high-profile merger with a struggling girls’ school.

  • Bridie Smith
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Rowing can open doors for Melbourne Grammar students to study and row at prestigious universities,including Harvard in the US.

‘Training at insane levels’:Inside the brutal,elite world of private school rowing

The death of a year 12 Melbourne Grammar student rower this week has raised questions about the intensity of training demands at some prestigious private schools.

  • Alex Crowe andBridie Smith
Edward Millear died after collapsing during rowing training with Melbourne Grammar School.

‘That’s the sport’:Rowing community grieves loss of much-loved student

Family of schoolboy rower Edward Millear say their son was dedicated to his “next-level” sport.

  • Alex Crowe,Bridie Smith andNoel Towell
Melbourne Grammar student Edward Millear.

Father’s tribute to the kid everybody loved after school rowing tragedy

Melbourne Grammar School student Edward Millear,17,died after suffering a medical episode while training alongside his rowing team.

  • Alex Crowe,Bridie Smith,Caroline Schelle andNicole Precel
Phonics teaching at Wheelers Hill Primary School.

State schools to move to phonics earlier,after reading ‘grenade’ blows up

Teachers have secured a multimillion-dollar deal with the state government after initially being denied a say on how Victorian children should be taught to read.

  • Bridie Smith