Helping Your Child Thrive Socially in Distance Education

Discover tips and strategies for helping your children find success and feel connected when learning from home. Advice to help make distance education more rewarding for everyone involved!

Distance Education5 min read

Anxiety and Distance Education

Find out why distance education can be a good option for students who are suffering from anxiety.

Distance Education5 min read

Why distance education suits children being bullied

Many students who are victims of bullying feel they need to leave their current school. Distance education can provide a safe and supportive environment for these students.

Distance Education3 min read

Why your child can't pay attention

Discover the key reasons why your child can’t pay attention, plus 12 tips to help them focus and concentrate so they can reach their potential.

Behaviour12 min read

A Parent’s Guide to Online Learning in K-12 Schools

Education is changing as online learning is becoming a more popular choice for many parents. Learn the concept, history, and benefits of online learning.

Online Learning12 min read

Helping Your Child Develop a More Curious Mind

Curiosity is essential for children as they learn and grow. Here are 8 ways to help your child develop a more curious mind.

Wellbeing10 min read

How Should Christian Parents View Success?

In this article, we’ll explore the concept of success from a biblical perspective and offer some advice on how to help our children achieve it.

Christian Schools9 min read

How to Protect Your Child’s Mental Health

Is your child struggling with depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues? Check out these important tips about how you can protect your child's mental health.

Mental Health8 min read

A Christian parenting roadmap to raising children through the challenging school years to maturity

When you have school-aged children, it can feel like it will be an eternity before they grow up and become independent. In truth, this time…

Student Wellbeing29 min read

Raising girls to become godly women

Why should parents be intentional about raising their daughters to be godly women?

Wellbeing6 min read

How should Christians think through career choices?

Choosing a career can sometimes seem overwhelming. When you combine the plethora of opportunities with the competing desires of our spirit and flesh, you have the potential for confusion, uncertainty and constantly second-guessing yourself.

Gifted & Talented8 min read

How can we achieve true financial freedom?

Most advice out there covers things like assets, debt repayments and sticking to a budget. Essentially, the main message of money advice is that financial freedom is achieved by more control and more money.

Wellbeing2 min read

Becoming a mathlete – how approaching maths like sport leads to success

Here are five key methods for becoming a ‘mathlete’ by approaching Maths like we do sport.

Numeracy7 min read

What role do schools play in parenting?

Have you ever wondered where a parent’s role ends and the role of the school begins? It’s a question worth thinking about. After all, these two influences are by far the largest in the vital childhood years.

Literacy6 min read

Raising boys to become godly men

Biblical manhood is under increasing attack in Australia, with factors including secularism, pornography and efforts to redefine gender eroding the Christian understanding of what it means to be a man.

Wellbeing9 min read

Why Christian families should be preparing their children for persecution

Before exploring why and how Christian families can prepare their children to face persecution, it’s important to note that persecution is the consequence, even the hallmark, of “successful Christianity".

Christian Schools5 min read

School Choices for Australian Parents

Choosing where to send your child to school is one of the most important decisions a parent will make. With the array of schooling options available in Australia, it can be difficult to even know where to start.

High School8 min read

Defeating cyberbullying – a guide for families

Raising children in the digital age presents challenges (and opportunities) never experienced before. For families, this can mean finding…

Wellbeing11 min read

Everything you need to know about distance education

You’ve probably heard the terms ‘distance education’, ‘home school’ and ‘online school’ a lot lately. Contrary to popular opinion, they are…

Distance Education13 min read

Cultivating positive behaviour and wellbeing in children

Any parent who’s been through the ‘terrible twos’ knows the importance of positive behaviour. If you’ve watched your sweet babe-in-arms…

Wellbeing8 min read

How education technology improves student engagement

Young people are digital citizens, raised with technology at their fingertips. Modern teaching strategies are harnessing its power to enhance student engagement and an individualised approach to learning.

Technology10 min read

Time management skills that improve student learning

In today’s busy world, time management skills for students are increasingly important.

High School8 min read

Raising responsible digital citizens

Today’s young generation are the first to literally live between two worlds – the one experienced through the senses, and the digital world accessed by devices that connect to the internet.

Wellbeing7 min read

Student wellbeing really matters

Wellbeing – it’s a state of physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual wholeness that every parent wants for their children.

Wellbeing7 min read

Developing personal character in students

While society might value qualities like ambition, intelligence or sporting prowess, at Australian Christian College we prioritise…

Christian Schools6 min read

Reading daily improves comprehension and student performance

Do you have fond memories of reading with your children, or of your parents reading to you? Reading together is a wonderful way of fostering literacy in young children.

Literacy10 min read

Critical thinking: an essential skill for every student

What parent doesn’t want their child to learn skills for wise decision-making and problem solving? The importance of critical thinking is…

Christian Schools10 min read

Social media and low self-esteem

Social media issues are often complex and there are typically no 'right answers' to drawn on. Having said that, there is a growing body of research from which can be gleaned some principles for wise usage.

Social Media7 min read

Homework ideas to make the most of your study routine

Homework – of all the study techniques, there are few that divide opinion quite as much. From staunch advocates who’d like their children to…

Homework8 min read

Literacy and the Australian Curriculum

The Australian curriculum is designed to make sure students develop a level of literacy that will help them succeed in life and work.

Literacy7 min read

How to identify if your child is being bullied at school

Whether your child is the victim – or the alleged perpetrator – claims about bullying are a serious matter.

Bullying6 min read

Scientists Link Aerobic Exercise Directly to Improved Memory

It’s no secret that exercise is essential for a healthy body. Adequate physical activity has been linked to improved cardiovascular health…

Wellbeing6 min read

Gifted children need intellectual challenges

From the moment the test result indicates ‘positive’, most parents-to-be begin wondering about their child. Is it a boy or a girl? Will they be healthy? are common questions. As the baby grows, those questions may give way to deeper musings.

Gifted & Talented7 min read

What is NAPLAN and How Can Students Prepare

Love it or hate it, NAPLAN is a reality for about one million Australian students every year.

Literacy8 min read

7 ways to maximise the benefits of parent-teacher interviews

Did you know that parents have a massive impact on their children’s educational success? In fact, research shows that parental engagement is crucial for children and young people’s cognitive, social and emotional development.

High School5 min read

Quality Education Focuses on Teaching, Not School Facilities

On the surface, it might seem like quality facilities equal quality education. So when parents are looking at schools, many understandably assess quality based on the facilities they see or hear about.

Education6 min read

Different teaching styles suit different students

Anyone who has been to school knows that different teachers have unique approaches to how they work with students.

Teachers8 min read

Key Strategies to Build Resilience in Children

Building resilience in children can act as an early preventative measure against such challenges even recognising that mental health and…

Student Wellbeing10 min read