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2 months ago | 
kidsnews.com.au | Sophie Elsworth |Patrick Carlyon |Thomas Sargeant |Tiffany Bakker
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
kidsnews.com.au | Iwan Jones
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
kidsnews.com.au | Shona Hendley |Diana Jenkins
READING LEVEL: GREENA record number of teachers have signed up for the free, online Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee, registering a record number of students across years 3-8. Over 63,000 stand counting are currently competing in the national school round. And there is still time to enter and play – the school round ends this Friday 23 August. Run by Kids News, the Bee’s busiest day for page views coincided with the release of NAPLAN results, with the Bee clocking over 51,000 views on August 14 alone.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
kidsnews.com.au | Adella Beaini |Maria Bervanakis |Anthony Piovesan
EXPLAINERredREADING LEVEL: REDWorld health authorities are warning an infectious strain of mpox is on the move after it was detected outside of Africa for the first time. A more contagious variant* of mpox known as “Clade Ib” has been spreading across several countries in Africa, causing the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare the outbreak a global public health emergency.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
kidsnews.com.au | Aymon Bertah |Elizabeth Pike
READING LEVEL: GREENA large crowd gathered at Sydney Airport to warmly welcome home the athletes of Team Australia, celebrating their triumphant return. On a wet Wednesday morning, the Olympians made their way down the Qantas Dreamliner to a waiting sea of green and gold, with family members, friends and fans eagerly anticipating their return. AOC chief executive Matt Carroll said it was a “fantastic morning” of celebrations, which was sorely missed after the pandemic-stricken* Tokyo Olympics.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
kidsnews.com.au | Shashi Baltutis
READING LEVEL: GREEN“Do you eat rocks?” This is one of the strange questions teacher Luke Springer has been asked by his class of Kindy students. Mr Springer is a popular teacher at his Adelaide primary school – but he is also very popular online. Mr Springer has gained 1.8 million followers on TikTok, where he is known as Mr Luke, and his videos have had more than 64 million likes.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
kidsnews.com.au | Hayden Johnson |Kathryn Bermingham
READING LEVEL: GREENTom Cruise took centrestage as the world said farewell to Paris after the City of Light pulled off Mission Impossible. With a spectacular blend of avant-garde* French culture, pulsing rock, heroes and crazy love, we bid France a fond au revoir* et merci* after an incredible Olympic Games. Two weeks of nailbiting and at times controversial competition ended with a moving and memorable closing ceremony at Stade de France.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
kidsnews.com.au | Vanessa Croll
READING LEVEL: GREENAndy Griffiths, the acclaimed* author behind the Treehouse series, is also a passionate supporter of the Indigenous* Literacy Foundation. In the following interview, Griffiths discusses the Great Book Swap, an initiative* that aims to raise $180,000 this year to provide 18,000 new books to children in remote* Australian communities.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
kidsnews.com.au | Tamaryn McGregor
READING LEVEL: GREENWhile surfers in wetsuits have been braving the freezing winter water in Australia’s south, turtles off the coast of far northern NSW have been lapping up the perfect conditions. “Turt-ally awesome” temperatures of over 20C were recorded in the last week of July along most of the coast, including Cook Island — where these pictures were taken — which is off Fingal Head south of Tweed Heads.