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Case Study – Behind The Scenes At Two Very Different Schools (part two) News - Old

March 22, 2021

Case Study – Behind The Scenes At Two Very Different Schools (part two)

If we’re honest, we all love to hear how other schools operate behind the scenes. Late last year we took a deep dive into the communication strategies and practices of a small Catholic primary school in Darwin and a not-for-profit…

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Should Teachers Be Teaching Empathy In The Classroom? Blog|Parent & Community|Teaching Staff

March 11, 2021

Should Teachers Be Teaching Empathy In The Classroom?

Empathy is a life skill that will serve children in almost every area of their lives, for the rest of their lives. And it makes sense that teachers are a vital part of a child’s team in communicating and demonstrating…

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Engage Parents, Save Time & Save Money With These Real-Life Examples From Schools Parent & Community|School Communication|School Technology

March 7, 2021

Engage Parents, Save Time & Save Money With These Real-Life Examples From Schools

We hear all the time that schools choose School Stream over other apps because they like the potential of School Stream. We don’t want to brag but it’s true: School Stream has *great* functionality and can be adapted to meet…

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Is It Easy To Change School Communication Apps? (Case Study) Blog|School Communication|School Finance|School Technology

March 1, 2021

Is It Easy To Change School Communication Apps? (Case Study)

Have you thought about changing school communication apps, only to put it in the ‘too hard basket’? Although it might feel overwhelming, the process of changing apps is actually a lot smoother than you might think. This week on School…

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8 Terrific Podcasts for Principals, Educators & Students News - Old|Teaching Staff

February 22, 2021

8 Terrific Podcasts for Principals, Educators & Students

We are experiencing something of a golden age in podcasts at the moment. There are close to two million podcasts as of January 2021 and, while comedy might be the most popular podcasting genre, guess what is coming in hot…

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The Sun and School – Protecting Teachers and Managing Hot Playgrounds Blog|School Staff

February 15, 2021

The Sun and School – Protecting Teachers and Managing Hot Playgrounds

Did you know a Sydney school playground recorded a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius last year? That’s hot!  A recent study by Dr Sebastian Pfautsch from the University of Western Sydney found that unshaded asphalt and artificial turf recorded some…

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9 Ways To Get Every Family Using Your School Communication App Blog|School Communication|School Technology

February 8, 2021

9 Ways To Get Every Family Using Your School Communication App

Welcome to 2021! It’s great to be back with you as we all look forward with optimism to a brighter, smoother year. With a new cohort of students starting their first years of primary and secondary school, there are going…

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As Voted By You – The Most Popular Posts Of 2020 Blog|School Communication|School Staff|School Technology

December 7, 2020

As Voted By You – The Most Popular Posts Of 2020

Welcome to the last post of 2020! Before we sign off for the year, we’ve rounded up our most popular posts from the past 12 months. Thanks for coming along with us this year as we took a deep dive…

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The Top 10 Virtual Travel Experiences Blog|School Technology

November 30, 2020

The Top 10 Virtual Travel Experiences

It’s that time of year when the longing for a holiday really kicks in. And while travel might be tricky right now, the world is closer than ever. Technology has come a long way and many of the world’s greatest…

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The Teachers Of Instagram School Communication|School Technology|Teaching Staff

November 20, 2020

The Teachers Of Instagram

Teachers are collegiate by nature, so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise to hear they are flocking to Instagram to give each other pep talks and share classroom ideas for all year levels and subjects - especially teachers who have…

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Case Study – Behind The Scenes From Preschool To Primary School (part one) Blog|School Staff|School Technology

November 13, 2020

Case Study – Behind The Scenes From Preschool To Primary School (part one)

Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in another school’s office? Of course you have! Well now is your chance. This week on School Stream, we go behind the scenes at a not-for-profit preschool in NSW,…

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What Are Educators Talking About This Week? (Round-up) Blog|Teaching Staff

November 9, 2020

What Are Educators Talking About This Week? (Round-up)

We are halfway through Term 4 and are inching ever closer to the summer holidays. It’s been a helluva year and we’re all looking forward to winding down and taking a break. In the meantime, school is in full swing…

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A Guide To Three Terrific Projects Supporting Indigenous Students Blog|Parent & Community|Teaching Staff

November 2, 2020

A Guide To Three Terrific Projects Supporting Indigenous Students

It might be NAIDOC Week next week, but it’s always a good week to shine a light on programs that support Indigenous excellence and improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students in remote communities. This week, School Stream is featuring three…

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4 Trends In Professional Development For Teachers & Educators Blog|School Staff|Teaching Staff

October 26, 2020

4 Trends In Professional Development For Teachers & Educators

We all know professional development (PD) for teachers matters. Not only is it a key requirement for teachers to maintain their accreditation but, with the world changing faster than ever, teachers and school leadership teams need training to keep ahead…

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Meet the Business Manager: Stacey Hawkins Blog|School Communication|School Staff

October 19, 2020

Meet the Business Manager: Stacey Hawkins

School Business Managers are the backbone of schools. They are essentially an entire human resources department, first aid officer, accountant, communication expert and multitasking administrator all rolled into one. From applying band-aids to skimmed knees, to booking buses for excursions,…

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Easy Book Week Ideas – A Guide With costumes, Classroom Ideas & More Blog|Parent & Community|School Staff

October 12, 2020

Easy Book Week Ideas – A Guide With costumes, Classroom Ideas & More

Book Week 2020 may be making its appearance a few months later than usual this year, but it’s finally here and a good opportunity to get kids excited about reading. This year’s theme is Curious Creatures, Wild Minds – a…

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Healthy And Delicious – Easy Lunchbox Ideas For Kids News - Old

September 21, 2020

Healthy And Delicious – Easy Lunchbox Ideas For Kids

We have all been witness to the dreaded uneaten lunch at the end of the school day. Finding the sweet spot between hitting nutritional guidelines and packing something your child will actually eat is a challenge. And although social media…

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What Does Good School Communication Look Like To Parents? (Case studies) Blog|Parent & Community|School Communication|School Technology

September 14, 2020

What Does Good School Communication Look Like To Parents? (Case studies)

No student is an island. Parents, teachers and administrators need to work hand in glove to make sure the whole school community thrives. It really does take a village. This week on School Stream, we are going to ask (and…

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5 Great Gardening Ideas For Kids Blog|Parent & Community

September 7, 2020

5 Great Gardening Ideas For Kids

Getting kids outside gardening and connecting with nature is good for everybody and there are loads of benefits when kids of all ages get their hands dirty in the garden. Spring is a great time to get into the garden,…

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The Essential Checklist For Your Mobile School Communication App Blog|School Communication|School Technology

August 31, 2020

The Essential Checklist For Your Mobile School Communication App

Things move pretty fast in a school environment. If you want to communicate efficiently and effectively with your parents and caregivers, you need to meet them where they’re at. And we all know that’s on their phone. If you want…

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Apply For Life-Changing Scholarships For Girls Parent & Community

August 20, 2020

Apply For Life-Changing Scholarships For Girls

As you know, School Stream is committed to supporting schools and their wider communities. Today, we want to let you know about a life-changing scholarship opportunity for girls through the Harding Miller Education Foundation. Their scholarship program aims to provide…

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What Do Effective School Leaders Do Differently? School Communication|School Staff

August 13, 2020

What Do Effective School Leaders Do Differently?

Effective leadership in a school environment is crucial. Educating kids while keeping the wheels of the school machine working is a huge responsibility and not for the faint of heart. If you are doing the important work of school leadership,…

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Teacher Wellbeing – What We Know and What Helps School Staff

August 10, 2020

Teacher Wellbeing – What We Know and What Helps

We all know teachers are under pressure and stressed. And we’re all familiar with the statistics that show teachers are leaving the profession in droves. What might be a good idea though, is to revisit some evidence-based strategies and ideas…

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4 Good Reasons to Move Your School Office Towards Paperless School Technology

August 3, 2020

4 Good Reasons to Move Your School Office Towards Paperless

We’ve all heard chat about going paperless in schools for what feels like decades now, but it feels like technology is at a point where this feels realistic, at least in the school office. And going paperless can reap major…

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How Do We Prepare Students For Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet? School Communication

July 27, 2020

How Do We Prepare Students For Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet?

What does a Smart Dust Wrangler do? What about a Memory Optimiser? Yes, these jobs are real, or they will be. They are but two of the jobs students of today may graduate to. They are listed among 100 other…

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What We Know About School – Parent Language Barriers and How School Stream Can Help School Communication

July 20, 2020

What We Know About School – Parent Language Barriers and How School Stream Can Help

We often hear feedback about how regular communication from school can make parents feel confident and connected. We can only wonder how it must feel if, as a parent, you received plenty of communication with all the news from school…

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School Stream Free, Customised Training Parent & Community

July 13, 2020

School Stream Free, Customised Training

School Stream takes our role as your school communication app seriously. We value schools as places that educate and encourage students to be ready for the future.  We want to support the important work you do by taking the heavy…

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How Schools use School Stream for Success  School Communication

June 29, 2020

How Schools use School Stream for Success 

The relationship between schools and technology has stepped up significantly since the start of the year. With the prospect of prolonged homeschooling looming large, schools found creative ways to keep students learning and keep parents in the loop. For most…

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 Reinventing the School Newsletter School Communication

June 22, 2020

 Reinventing the School Newsletter

Do you know how many emails are sent every day? Globally, 293.6 billion emails are sent and received every day. The average office worker receives 121 emails every day. If you’re wondering what these stats have to do with your…

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The Great Creativity Boom of 2020 Parent & Community

June 15, 2020

The Great Creativity Boom of 2020

As we have heard so many times, the events of 2020 have been unprecedented. When Bob Dylan sang “For the times they are a-changin’’ in 1961, he could never have envisaged the degree of change we have experienced in this…

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How COVID-19 has Affected Year 12 Students School Communication

June 8, 2020

How COVID-19 has Affected Year 12 Students

This week on School Stream, we are tackling a big, somewhat fraught, topic. COVID-19 has thrown all our lives into chaos this year, but the impact has really been felt by schools and students. But for the 200,000 or so…

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We’re Taking Part in the Free Amazon Web Services Webinar and You’re Invited School Technology

June 1, 2020

We’re Taking Part in the Free Amazon Web Services Webinar and You’re Invited

Schools are on their way back to something resembling ‘business as usual’. The school gate is buzzing with chat about the importance of school life for kids and teenagers, and it is obvious the work done by teachers and schools…

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4 Tips for Transitioning Kids Back to School School Communication

May 25, 2020

4 Tips for Transitioning Kids Back to School

We hope this finds you well. At this stage, it looks like we are heading back to face-to-face teaching much earlier than anticipated. Depending on which state or territory you live in, the pending (or current) return of students to…

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How Teachers are Changing the Way They Teach During COVID School Staff|School Technology

May 18, 2020

How Teachers are Changing the Way They Teach During COVID

How teachers are keeping all students engaged during COVID-19 We hope this finds you well. As of today, schools and students across Australia are experiencing their teaching and learning in a myriad of ways. The best adjective to describe it…

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A Funding Opportunity to Support Schools with Intercultural Challenges School Communication

May 11, 2020

A Funding Opportunity to Support Schools with Intercultural Challenges

School looks very different for all of us right now. Wherever you are with your school, we hope this finds you well. As you know, School Stream is committed to supporting schools and their broader communities, so we want to…

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Communication Strategies from Profile Media School Communication|School Technology

May 4, 2020

Communication Strategies from Profile Media

Welcome back to Term 2 and we hope you enjoyed a restorative break. We have something different for you this week that we know you will find useful. School Stream has partnered with PR and communication specialists Profile Media, who…

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How to Get the Most out of School Stream During Term 2 School Technology

April 26, 2020

How to Get the Most out of School Stream During Term 2

It’s hard to keep up with everything going on in schools but, at the moment at least, every state has adopted a different approach in how they will proceed in Term 2. We remain committed to supporting schools so they…

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Homeschooling Support for Parents via School Stream School Communication

April 6, 2020

Homeschooling Support for Parents via School Stream

Teaching staff and admin teams have been beyond heroic in recent weeks. Not only have they continued to educate the children of frontline staff, but they have also delivered the biggest change in memory to Australia’s education system. Moving the…

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Deliver Home Learning with School Stream Parent & Community

March 30, 2020

Deliver Home Learning with School Stream

With schools pushed to their limits to deliver remote learning options within a very tight timeframe, some schools are using School Stream to deliver homework directly to parents. Read on for more details about how you can connect with families…

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COVID-19 – Keep your school community updated School Communication

March 18, 2020

COVID-19 – Keep your school community updated

As expected there has been a significant increase in communications in the last week. We are committed to keeping your schools and communities connected and want to remind you that School Stream provides unlimited messaging. We want to help you…

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Free School Crisis Communication App School Communication

March 18, 2020

Free School Crisis Communication App

We want to provide every school with immediate access to communication with parents during this crisis. We are working in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a part of the Disaster Response Community, to donate access to our software…

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In Praise of School Volunteers Parent & Community

March 15, 2020

In Praise of School Volunteers

It really does take a village to keep a school ticking along. Not only do teachers, administrators and the School Leadership team work tirelessly on delivering core educational outcomes, there’s loads of other work happening behind the scenes to make…

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Why Don’t Kids Want to Talk about Their Day at School? School Communication

March 8, 2020

Why Don’t Kids Want to Talk about Their Day at School?

It’s a conversation as old as time. “How was your day at school today?” Good. “What did you get up to?” Nothing much. “Well, something must have happened?” Can’t remember. Cue frustration from parents. For parents, nothing is worse than…

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We Want to Cross Something off your ‘To-Do’ List App Updates

March 1, 2020

We Want to Cross Something off your ‘To-Do’ List

You’ve heard us say it again and again. School Stream is here to help schools. We understand the role of the SAM/SAO is one of the busiest, most multifaceted roles in education. So when schools have said they wished parent…

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8 Strategies to Get your Parent Community using a School Communication App Parent & Community

February 24, 2020

8 Strategies to Get your Parent Community using a School Communication App

Welcome back! The summer holidays are but a distant memory and the school year is well and truly underway. Hopefully, all of your students have settled in and are ready to learn. As we all know, transiting to primary or…

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In Case You Missed It: The Top 10 Posts of 2019 Blog|News - Old

December 16, 2019

In Case You Missed It: The Top 10 Posts of 2019

Welcome to the last post of 2019! Before we sign off for the summer holidays, we’ve rounded up the most popular posts from the past 12 months. Thanks for coming along with us throughout the year as we took a…

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Top 10 Places to Travel in 2020 Parent & Community

December 9, 2019

Top 10 Places to Travel in 2020

TOP 10 PLACES TO TRAVEL IN 2020 We are fast approaching the summer holidays. Where has the year gone? Whether you have been guiding students through their first year of school, preparing Year 12 students for life outside the school…

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Building Inclusive Community Partnerships School Communication

December 2, 2019

Building Inclusive Community Partnerships

Building inclusive community partnerships The value of school-community engagement is well established. All states and territories in Australia have frameworks in place to guide schools and communities through the process of building and nurturing successful, sustainable relationships. It will probably…

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