May

It doesn’t pay to miss breakfast, especially not for students at Yass High School. The school’s breakfast club has been drawing accolades and a growing crowd since it was formed three years ago. Find out more.

Wentworth Public School’s Year 3 and 4 class has drawn together an educational kit out of a year-long project it undertook with teacher Cyrus Katrak to monitor the endangered Regent Parrot. Read more here.

Ths scene, reminiscent of the award-winning movie The Kite Runner, was not only created by Merrylands East Public School students from existing props and costumes, but helped the group win the 2008 Wakakirri national prize for cultural diversity. Learn more here.

History will “come alive” for a group of high school students next month when they bow their heads at dawn on Anzac Day on the hallowed ground at Gallipoli. Ten Year 10 and 11 students from public schools throughout the state will join NSW Premier Nathan Rees and his official party for a 10-day tour.  Find out more.

Two Bega High School students and their teacher have helped solve a 180-year-old mystery with the discovery of the wreck of the HM colonial schooner Mermaid. Read more here.   

Yanco Agricultural High School’s enviable record exhibiting livestock at major shows is about to be boosted with the completion of the school’s show stock complex. Learn more here.       

The students of Anson Street School, in Orange, make the sport of sailing look deceptively simple. Their dinghies may be specially designed for people with disabilities, but according to principal Garry Brotherton the weekly sailing trips on Lake Canobolas challenge the students to employ a wide range of problem-solving skills. Find out more.

What do a group of students from as far away as Tibet or Armenia have in common with a group of Australian country kids? They are all teenagers ready to develop friendships, challenge stereotypes and embrace difference. Read more here.

Debating has been a feature of NSW public schools since the 1930s, when the Hume Barbour Competition started for metropolitan area senior debating students. Today there are more than 1,000 schools with students from Years 5 to 12 in the Premier’s Debating Challenge – some schools entering more than two teams in each age division. Find out more.

With little more than a pencil and paper, Ainsley Wilcock has captured the poignancy of her young brother’s “burgeoning awareness of his hemiplegic cerebral palsy”. His struggle with the condition that has affected an arm and leg on one side of his body was the inspiration behind Half a boy. Find out more.