Bee blasts NAPLAN woes away
Teachers across Australia have flocked to register more than 40,000 students for the annual Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee as NAPLAN results highlight ongoing foundation literacy challenges
Teachers across Australia have flocked to register more than 40,000 students for the annual Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee as NAPLAN results highlight ongoing foundation literacy challenges
Australia has a vast treasure-trove of exceptional sporting exports, but our best athlete of the past 25 years has been named – do you agree with the top pick and who else made the list? Take our poll
Is this the world’s most stubborn neighbour? A homeowner in China refused to budge for developers and defied demolition – how did his eccentric resistance succeed?
Table manners were missing in action as a flock of sheep crashed a casual coffee catch up in China – should someone have stopped this woolly wag from chugging the caffeine? TAKE OUR POLL
First inspired by a fictional chess player, rising Australian whiz kid Reyaansh Chakrabarty has since beaten Grandmasters for real – here’s his plan for becoming Australia’s first world champ
Worshipped by Ancient Egyptians, the ibis has been down on its luck since arriving in Australia – but all that might change after calls to make the nation’s ‘bin chicken’ an Olympic Games mascot
A nationwide ban on homework for Aussie kids is news worth celebrating … or is it?
The Eiffel Tower was already the tallest building in Paris, but the French capital’s most recognisable structure just got even higher
A couple who believed they’d dug up the world’s largest potato in New Zealand have had their hopes mashed after tests showed it wasn’t a potato after all
Space fans stuck on planet Earth can now register their name and become a virtual passenger on the coming Artemis I moon mission
Cuteness levels have doubled at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo with the safe arrival of a pair of red panda cubs, whose early antics are being captured and shared via CCTV
A gigantic Israeli strawberry has delighted its growers by setting a new world record even after shrinking in the freezer over the past year
The absurd side of pandemic life and a rugby obsessed penguin have inspired the winning entries in the inaugural Kids News Cartoon Contest. Check out the winning cartoons here
Endangered Australian birds could knock pop songbirds from their perch, with an album of birdsong in the running to debut in the ARIA Top 10
Download four great activity sheets to celebrate the end of the school year and the release of international best-selling author David Walliams’ new book, Gangsta Granny Strikes Again!
Well done to all the budding cartoonists who sent in cartoons. The judges are checking them out now
A Tassie teen has set a new trampoline world record for the most ‘cat twists’ in a row. Can you guess how many he landed?
Flying foxes, trees for climbing, swings and obstacle courses are on the park wishlist for Aussie kids, new research reveals
Cartoonist Mark Knight reckons a teenage fangirl would have been the perfect option to pull off Channel 7’s botched interview with singing megastar Adele
A French daredevil has set a world record for standing on top of a hot-air balloon higher above the ground than ever before – and has this breathtaking selfie to prove it
