Education coverage
Education
AS the summer holidays wrap-up and children gear up for a return to school after a long break, many parents are searching for ways to help kids shift focus from hours of screen time to more structured, productive routines. Reset Moves, a groundbreaking app developed in Western Australia, offers parents expert advice and innovative tools [...]
Our Community
MOREE Public School P&C Association president Casey O’Hara is overwhelmed by community response and support from sponsors as the countdown for the school’s first long lunch fundraiser begins in earnest. The 2025 Supporting the Now, Paving the Future Long Lunch will be served on Saturday, March 1 – the first day of autumn – at [...]
Education
AS children in the New South Wales Western Division prepare for a return to school next week, the Federation of Canteens in Schools will host a national roundtable later this month to discuss the critical future of school canteens across Australia. With school canteens playing an essential role in supporting children’s health, wellbeing, and sense [...]
Back to School
AS kids across the north-west and New England get ready to return to school, Asthma Australia urges parents to update their children’s Asthma Action Plan. Just like packing a school hat, this simple step helps ensure a child’s asthma is well-managed and helps teachers, coaches, and caregivers know exactly what to do if a flare-up [...]
Survival Day
MOREE Aboriginal Elder Darryl French knows what it’s like to survive. Mr French joined hundreds of community members and visitors at Jellicoe Park on Sunday to commemorate Survival Day, following a memorial walk from Moree Court House to remember the Waterloo Creek massacre, which tragically took place 187 years ago on January 26. “Our culture [...]
Education and Training
IT’S been going for more than 20 years, has awarded 516 scholarships and is a hugely successful partnership between the community and Gunnedah Shire Council. The Gunnedah Community Scholarship Fund celebrated another year of community support for the Shire’s young people at the annual presentation on Wednesday. Eighteen students from Gunnedah Shire were awarded scholarships [...]
Regional News
A free event in Armidale next week will bring some of Australia’s best skateboarders to town, providing an unforgettable experience for the community. Following the success of Australia’s Olympic skateboarding campaign, which resulted in two gold medals, interest in the sport is at an all-time high. The Rumble Roadshow aims to harness this enthusiasm by [...]
Education and Training
TRADIES have replaced teachers and students across New South Wales to work on 1200 vital maintenance and upgrade projects across more than 800 public schools during the summer school holidays. The maintenance schedule is part of the NSW Government’s investment in minor works, and essential to ensuring schools are fit for purpose. This year, schools [...]
Australia Day
NEW citizens will be welcomed to Australia at citizenship ceremonies across the country on January 26 – an important part of Australian Day celebrations. Moree Plains Shire Council mayor, Susannah Pearse, conducts citizenship ceremonies regularly, but welcoming new citizens to Moree on Australia Day holds special significance. Australian citizenship symbolises unity as a nation and [...]
Pitch2Grow Moree
INNOVATIVE concept Pitch2Grow is calling for expressions of interest from people in the Moree, Narrabri and Inverell districts. The call-out is for entrepreneurs who have new business ideas, products or services, or a new enterprise they can promote in a pitch format. Pitch2Grow, a University of New England Smart Region Incubator project supported by the [...]
