Education

Shepparton Year 12 student excels despite the odds

Shepparton’s Ellie Simpson is achieving so highly at school, she’s starting work as a teacher’s aid on top of her Year 12 studies. And she’s doing it despite an anxiety disorder which has made forming friendships and learning extremely difficult...

Spencer Fowler Steen

Greater Shepparton Secondary School records sharp drop in enrolments

Greater Shepparton Secondary College has recorded a sharp drop in enrolments compared to last year, raising concerns numbers will continue to decline.

Spencer Fowler Steen

GVGS students achieve success in Indonesian speech competition

Three Goulburn Valley Grammar students have put their Indonesian language skills to the test, taking out the top three spots in a national Indonesian Embassy speech competition.

Liz Mellino

GVGS students achieve success in Indonesian speech competition

Three Goulburn Valley Grammar students have put their Indonesian language skills to the test, taking out the top three spots in a national Indonesian Embassy speech competition.

Liz Mellino

GSSC students have their say on remote learning

Having the flexibility to manage their own studies and the care and support of teachers who were “on call” were some of the positive remote learning lessons from a snap survey of Year 12 students at Greater Shepparton Secondary College...

Spencer Fowler Steen

Bourchier St Primary School foundation students celebrate 100-day milestone as 100-year-olds

Before students across Victoria went back to remote learning, Bourchier St Primary School foundation students were able to have one last celebration. Just like at other schools across the region, children marked their first 100 days of school by...

Madi Chwasta

Goulburn Valley Grammar students fight MND

Goulburn Valley Grammar School students have come out in force for Motor Neurone Disease research, wearing the iconic blue FightMND beanies and raising $847 for the cause.

Madi Chwasta

Notre Dame College leaders react to university fee changes

The four Notre Dame College leaders have different ideas on what life after Year 12 will look like, with some impacted by the proposed university fee changes and others less so.

Madi Chwasta

Calls for Greater Shepparton Secondary College uniform to be reviewed

A committee of concerned parents have called for the new Greater Shepparton Secondary College uniform to be reviewed, as stock of the winter jumpers runs low.

Madi Chwasta

Shepparton students honoured for their VCE efforts

Long hours of study have paid off for four dedicated Shepparton students.

Morgan Dyer

Relief and excitement as school finally returns

Teachers, children and parents across the state breathed a sigh of relief and felt a surge of excitement yesterday as students from Years 3 to 6 returned to school. After nine weeks of home learning, Shepparton’s St Georges Road Primary School...

Morgan Dyer

‘Disengaged’ GSSC students sent to off-site campus

Twenty “disengaged” Greater Shepparton Secondary College students will be sent to an campus at Invergordon separate from the state-of-the-art facility at Shepparton. But executive principal Genevieve Simson insists the Rural Annex, to be managed...

Madi Chwasta

Education Future: Celebrating the success of remote education

Term two of the 2020 school year is one for the history books. As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, students were ordered to stay home and remote learning became the new, temporary, way of life. But in these uncertain times, there have been plenty of...

Shepparton News

School term an ‘experiment’, says local principal as children return to school after COVID-19 shutdowns

Schools are starting back, kids are learning to tie their shoelaces again, and teachers are reflecting on what they have learnt in the past two months.

Daneka Hill

Wilmot Road Primary goes virtual

Virtual tours of the Mooroopna Historical Society, yoga lessons and cooking classes are some of the activities students at Wilmot Road Primary School have been doing to keep connected during the pandemic. But it hasn’t gone completely without...

Spencer Fowler Steen

Numurkah Secondary College staff’s heartfelt video to students

Numurkah Secondary College staff have brightened up students’ weekends, making a video about everything they miss about their students.

Lachlan Durling

Students head back to school

Tomorrow 10 students will pack their lunches, grab their school bags and head to Ardmona Primary School for the first time in two months. They will be among thousands of students across Victoria returning to campus with Prep to Year 2 and years 11...

Jessica Ball

Hands-on learning at Wilmot Road

At Wilmot Road Primary School moving to learning remotely did not necessarily mean moving online. Assistant principal Sharon Thompson said it was important students were only online for the time they needed to be. “Screen time isn’t the answer...

Jessica Ball

Orrvale puts the focus on wellbeing

From playing a game of virtual catch to helping parents overcome their fears of remote learning, Orrvale Primary School has put its social emotional learning into practice. Emotional intelligence is a part of the school’s fabric and principal Adam...

Jessica Ball