Year 6 News Today

PETALING JAYA: The streaming of Year Six pupils from primary schools to secondary schools should be a yearly routine that prioritises the parents’ prefer­ences over the Dual Language Pro­gramme (DLP) schools they want their children to attend, say parent groups.

Since 1979, there have been more than 100 government inquiries into Australian teacher education. Another review will be handed down later this month, but there's reason to believe this will be the most consequential.

Music education wires children for learning. So with many schools currently trying to improve language and literacy levels, music educator and researcher Dr Anita Collins explains how learning music could be a vital key.

Many organisations are using new technologies to automate decisions about what opportunities are or are not available to us. And this is increasingly impacting children in education.

For Reconciliation Week, primary and secondary students are being encouraged to work with their local Indigenous community to translate an Acknowledgement of Country into the first language of their local area.

As parents grapple with decisions about their children's education, they often ask which musical instrument their children should learn. But for a child to get the full musical and cognitive benefits from learning an instrument, it's about matching the right instrument for the right child.

Schools minister Nick Gibb has said he will 'look at' complaints from parents and teachers about the difficulty of last week's SATs reading paper

The quest to become 'fit' has always involved innovation.

Teacher and author John Marsden fosters a sense of adventure and a culture of inclusiveness and creativity at his school in Victoria. In this opinion piece, he explains why he places a lot of value on firsthand experiences — both for students and teachers.

Finnish educator Pasi Sahlberg has studied education systems, analysed education policies and advised education reforms around the world. He has three ideas, inspired by lessons from abroad, to make our primary schools better and fairer places for children.