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Online Safety Tips – A whole school approach

Date Published: 07/02/2023

This week all Homerooms in the College are focusing on Internet Safety. The poster below has some great advice on how to stay safe online and can act like a checklist to help you remember the steps you can take

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Safer Internet Day

Date Published: 08/02/2022

Play it safe and fair – online and offline This week, Australia together with 170 countries around the world will focus on internet safety. This year, to encourage kind, respectful and enjoyable interaction online, the theme of the campaign is

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ABC Social Media Series

Date Published: 19/11/2019

We recommend the ABC series Social Media Me to help students understand and navigate the social media world they live in. The series follows the experiences of characters in an unfolding fictitious dramatisation focusing on identity, self-esteem and ethical behaviour

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Media Literacy

Date Published: 05/11/2019

Get on board and learn to navigate the modern media landscape with the excellent resources provided for teachers and students by the ABC on their Media Literacy site. They can be used to help develop the skills needed to sort

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Digital Citizenship Matters!

Date Published: 13/05/2019

Recent events with politicians and sporting stars reinforce the fact that digital citizenship matters. It is important that students learn to look after their digital footprint and protect their digital reputation. The following video for students explains the concept of

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Media Literacy Week

Date Published: 10/09/2018

This week, ABC Education launches its first Media Literacy Week with a program that aims to equip people of all ages with the skills to sort truth from fiction in news and information. Media Literacy Week, to run from 10-16 September,

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Stories That Matter

Date Published: 26/06/2018

Stories That Matter is a discussion about contemporary realistic YA novels that deal with big issues like mental health, sexuality and self-discovery. It poses the question of whether we should shelter our students from these novels or use them to

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CBCA Shortlisted Book of the Year for Older Readers

Date Published: 25/05/2018

Take Three Girls is a thought-provoking read about female friendship for our Senior Fiction readers (15+). Collaboratively written by three friends and award-winning novelists Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood, this is a coming of age story dealing with

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Book of the Week for Video Game Lovers

Date Published: 12/02/2018

Warcross by Marie Liu is a fast-paced, sci-fi, cyberpunk virtual reality thriller where readers are immersed in a video game with the characters.  Dealing with computer hacking and the ethical limits of technology, it has both romance and suspense and

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YA Book of the Week

Date Published: 12/02/2018

One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus is an addictive read for YA lovers of the thriller genre.  Set in an American school, five students attend detention where one of the students dies a perplexing death and the other

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