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PUBLIC HEALTH
Student exemption
STUDENT PROTECTION
Snapchat takes on mental health role
STUDENT PROTECTION
Acting on suspected grooming
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Call for Legana PS views
STUDENT NUTRITION
Should schools ban junk food?
Aboriginal language in schools
TEACHING PROFESSION
Improving teacher skills
SPORT
Sport participation boost
WORLD NEWS
Trump wins
TASMANIAN POLITICS
Nic Street elected
TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
Students return
STUDENT SELF-MOTIVATION
Setting healthy goals
FEDERAL POLITICS
Adam Bandt new Greens leader
FEDERAL POLITICS
McCormack still Nationals leader
FEDERAL POLITICS
Di Natale resigns
FEDERAL POLITICS
Sports minister resigns
SCHOOL SPORT
School
footy boost
HEALTH
Aircraft in lockdown
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Problem-solving activity benefit
HEALTH
Tas potential corona suspects to stay home
HEALTH
L'ton woman tested for coronavirus
TASMANIAN POLITICS
Portfolios announced
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ANIMAL WELFARE
Melbourne Cup
activities? MEMORY AND LEARNING Learning tips for revising students  (From Amina Youssef-Shalala, The Conversation, 7 Oct 2019) TASMANIAN ABORIGINAL HISTORY How early Tasmanian Aboriginals influenced the landscape  Archaeological research suggests that the nature of land and whether it was close to the coast was more important to Tasmanian Aboriginals than vegetation type. (From The Conversation, 4 Oct 2019) CLIMATE CHANGE Climate change action for individuals  What can people do in their daily lives to help counter climate change? (From Nick Golledge, The Conversation, 2 Oct 2019) LITERACY 10 ways to get the most out of silent reading  Silent sustained reading for pleasure needs to be encouraged but it is declining in some schools. (From Margaret Kristin Merga, The Conversation, 23 Sep 2019) MATHEMATICS How was maths discovered?  A simplified response to questions asking how maths was discovered and who made up the rules of mathematics. (From Linda Galligan, The Conversation, 22 Aug 2019) INTERNET LITERACY How to spot a fake review  Online reviews of hotel accommodation and other services and products are sometimes rigged. Find out how to identify a genuine review. 
And try the simple five-question online test to see
whether you are as good as you think you are at spotting fake
reviews. (From Adrian R. Camilleri, The Conversation, 12 Aug 2019) TASMANIAN HISTORY Virtual Hobart Town  See computer-generated still and 360-degree panoramic images of Hobart Town in the 1820s. 
Virtual Hobart
Town YouTube teaserWEATHER AND CLIMATE What is a cold front?  Find out what a cold front is and how it can adversely affect our weather, particularly here in Tasmania. Bonus: information about warm fronts. From ABC Weather. SOCCER IN THE CLASSROOM Everyone's Game  SBS teaching resource for Years 5-8 prepared to coincide with the Matildas, Australia's women's soccer team, participating in the FIFA Women's World Cup..
Everyone's Game Classroom Resource Teacher Notes
[pdf]
Quizzes, videos and classroom materialSTUDENT HEALTH AND SAFETY Concussion in Sport Australia  Information and resources on the dangers of concussion in sport, from the Australian Sports Commission. See especially the Parents and Teachers section. WATER SAFETY Beachsafe  The BeachSafe website, run by Surf Life Saving Australia, provides patrolling details and current water and weather conditions for just about every beach in Australia.
Scroll down for the beaches near your location.
Click on beach thumbnail or name for patrol, weather and
water details.
For more, including a search box for other beaches, click
ExploreWATER SAFETY Surf Life Saving Tasmania  Surf Life Saving Tasmania services include the provision of water safety advice and lifeguards for school water-related events.
Beach safety top tips
Book a
lifeguard
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Years 11 and 12 students in
areas of mainland China other than Hubei province, currently
held back under coronavirus safeguards, will now be allowed to
apply to enter Australia...
Snapchat plans to monitor searches related to mental
health and refer its typically youthful users to appropriate
help websites...
Teachers and parents should report concerns about
possible grooming of students to the school leadership no matter
how trivial their concerns may seem, three criminology and
justice academics urge...
The state government's Get
Involved campaign invites people to provide feedback on
plans for the new $20 million Legana Primary School...
Five experts give their views
on whether junk food should be banned in schools. Four say yes,
one no...
Teaching Tasmanian students to
say a few sentences in an Aboriginal language would facilitate
improved understanding of Indigenous culture...
A researcher puts forward a systematic approach that
would enable the best teachers to pass on their skills to others...
Tasmanian children aged 5 to 17 years
who are financially disadvantaged will be eligible to receive
vouchers to participate in club sporting activities under the
government's Ticket to Play program,
sport and recreation minister Jane Howlett says...
As expected, US President
Donald Trump has been acquitted at the end of his impeachment
trial...
Liberal Nic Street has been
elected on recount to replace former premier Will Hodgman in the
House of Assembly seat of Franklin...
More than 62,000 students
returned to 195 government schools today...
A psychologist academic
suggests how Year 12 students in particular can set goals yet
avoid stress...
Adam Bandt has been elected unopposed as the new leader of the
Greens.
Despite Barnaby Joyce's
challenge, Michael McCormack has retained leadership of the
Nationals.
Federal Greens leader Richard
Di Natale has announced his resignation as parliamentary leader.
He says he will eventually resign as a senator...
Federal sports minister Bridget
McKenzie has tendered her resignation from the ministry
following a report by the head of the Prime Minister's
Department over grants to sports organisations in which he said
her undisclosed membership of a gun club represented a conflict
of interest...
Tasmanian boys and girls will be able to participate
in the School Sports Association football carnival this year,
and the extended Tasmanian Devils Academy training program will
also go ahead, premier Peter Gutwein announced today...
Passengers on a flight from
Melbourne have been prevented form leaving a Jetstar plane at
Hobart Airport after a man became unwell...
Learning is improved when
students are required to perform explicit basic tasks followed
by relevant problem-solving activities, a researcher in
educational psychology says...
New premier Peter Gutwein has
announced his ministerial appointments.
