Loretta Piazza News Today

The federal government has raised the alarm about distraction in the classroom and is appealing to teachers for ideas to bring order back to schools.

Advertisement Could you read the word “intravenous” when you were in grade 3? Did you know the superlative suffix for “pretty”? It’s Wednesday morning at Chelsea Primary, a state school in Melbourne’s south-eastern sandbelt, and these questions are being put at rapid pace to a composite class of grades 3 and 4 students. Students at Chelsea Primary School learn to read using synthetic phonics. Credit:Simon Schluter The children sit in rows, engaged in a half-hour ...