Lunchtime music concert with SAPSS student musicians. Photos: Pauline Cain. Lunchtime music concert with SAPSS student musicians. Photos: Pauline Cain. Lunchtime music concert with SAPSS student musicians. Photos: Pauline Cain. LUNCHTIME crowds in Port Macquarie stopped to listen to school bands on The Glasshouse steps on Friday 26 June. St Agnes’ Parish Secondary Schools (SAPSS) […]
Logan Harrison. Photo: TAFE NSW Media department.
LOGAN Harrison, a 22-year-old student and floor and wall tiler, is competing against some of the best vocational talent in the world at the 2026 Global Skills Challenge in Wollongong from June 24-28. Hosted by Illawarra TAFE, the competition pits participants from 15 countries against one another. The emerging elite tradespeople test their skills in […]
Long Flat Primary School students after receiving their books.
Local Comboyne Donkey enjoying ‘The Bear Who Went Boo!’ book by David Walliams. Photos: Supplied. Comboyne Primary School students with Principal Darren Isaacs and Angie Hazelton-Kelly. Long Flat Primary School students after receiving their books. MORE than 3000 new books were provided to local schools during the past week through the Library Regeneration Program and […]
Corey Tutt OAM and artist Ben Williams at the Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney. Photo: supplied.
Corey Tutt OAM and artist Ben Williams at the Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney. Photo: supplied. Promoting Come Home, Bigibila in Melbourne. Photo: Corey Tutt. COREY Tutt OAM has been in a whirl of media interviews, school visits and book store appearances since he and Aboriginal artist Ben Williams won Book of the Year […]
NEW research suggests most Australians support a simple change that could significantly boost children’s physical activity levels: letting students wear sports uniforms every day. The majority of young Australians are still not active enough, despite well-established evidence that regular physical activity improves children’s physical and mental health. Schools are seen as an important setting to […]
Year 11 and 12 students from Wauchope High visit the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health in Taree. Photo: Wauchope High School.
WAUCHOPE and Kempsey high schools are two of the most improved schools in regional and rural NSW. They were among 45 public high schools recognised for delivering outstanding improvements in Higher School Certificate results. Deputy Premier Prue Car said, “These results show what can be achieved when teachers can focus their time and expertise in […]
Port Macquarie’s Breanna Alpen is part of a growing band of women entering the male-dominated construction industry. Photo: supplied.
NEW data has revealed the increasingly critical role women are playing in the construction industry. The number of women enrolling in construction trades courses has more than doubled in the five years to 2025, according to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Among them is Port Macquarie’s Breanna Alpen, 19, a promising rugby […]
The government bunting torn down out the front of Tacking Point Public School last month. Photo: supplied.
SUPPORTERS of a new preschool at Tacking Point Public School (TPPS) have emerged publicly following weeks of tense debate about the $6.3 million project. Philip von Shoenberg, a retired teacher who lives near the school on Bangalay Drive, has expressed his strong support for the State Government’s plan to build a free public preschool on […]
A big turnout at the preschool protest out the front of Tacking Point Public School this morning. Photo: Matt Taylor. Kate Dawes and her son Oliver, a Year 4 student at TPPS. Photo: Matt Taylor. Carol Roper with her grandchildren, Zara, a Year 1 student at TPPS, and Ozzie, a Year 5 student. Photo: Matt […]
A WORLD-FIRST study by Charles Sturt University (CSU) has identified an ecosystem of parasites inside great white sharks. The global study by researchers in CSU’s School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, and the Gulbali Institute for Agriculture Water and Environment, found evidence of at least 116 parasites inside the apex predator. Professor in Veterinary […]
