Schoolyard Shoutout

Welcome to Schoolyard Shoutout, Kids News’ national noticeboard for school news!

Schoolyard Shoutout is Kids News’ dedicated hub for school stories from across our news network. We also warmly invite schools to share newsworthy student accomplishments and initiatives with us directly.

Schoolyard Shoutout will share school news in four categories: Sport, Academic, Creative and Community – please find submission guidelines below.

We can’t wait to hear what’s happening at your school!

Aussie kids are active kids – on your marks, get set, GO

Sport Shoutout

Braxtyn Truman at the 2025 Swimming Gold Coast Long Course Championships. Picture: Photos By Nadia

Kids make Australia a better place by volunteering, fundraising, advocating and more

Community Shoutout

Haileybury Rendall Students took part in a safari-themed camp for the Sony Foundation Camp on the weekend of June 28. Picture: Supplied

NT students host fun jungle safari

A day of fun at a jungle safari camp was organised and hosted by Haileybury Rendall students, bringing kindness and joy to young Territory kids living with a disability

Community Shoutout

Education Minister Ben Carroll and HWT Chair Penny Fowler with kids at Station Pier for the start of the iCan Challenge walk to Frankston. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Mornington Peninsula students’ epic trek for Good Friday Appeal

More than 400 students from schools across the Mornington Peninsula have trekked 50km from Port Melbourne to Frankston to raise more than $200k for the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Community Shoutout

Kids News 2025: Aspect Hills Shire School has opened in Sydney's northwest for students on the autism spectrum from kindergarten to Year 6. Picture: supplied

Aspect opens 10th autism school

Aspect Hills Shire School has opened its doors, the new purpose-built, autism-specific primary school set to provide a tailored learning environment for K-6 students on the autism spectrum

Community Shoutout

Members of the Yuendumu community proudly acknowledged for their contribution to bilingual education on March 5, 2025, when Yuendumu School celebrated 50 years of bilingual education. Picture: Supplied

50 years of NT bilingual learning

Yuendumu School in the Northern Territory has reached an impressive birthday, celebrating half a century of bilingual education

Community Shoutout

Member for Solomon Luke Gosling with St Paul students. Picture: government / supplied.

NT school celebrates a big spruce

Darwin primary school St Paul’s at Rapid Creek has received a significant infrastructure boost, enhancing accessibility, safety and learning spaces for students and staff

From the modest to the magnificent, creativity is a force for good

Creative Shoutout

The students learned that different materials can impact the environment in different ways. Picture: supplied

Students slow fast fashion landfill

Environmental excess in the fashion world is well documented as sustainability in design surges to the forefront of the industry and one QLD school embraces the new ethos with its creative catwalk

Creative Shoutout

KIDS NEWS 2024: Schoolyard Shoutout 26 September. Students from the Thomas Pattison School paid a special visit to Madame Tussauds Sydney to celebrate International Day of Sign Languages on Monday 23 September. Picture: supplied

Hands-on fun at Madame Tussauds

Celebrating International Day of Sign Languages was a tactile experience for Thomas Pattison School students, whose wax hands workshop at Madame Tussauds Sydney gets two thumbs up

PicturesCreative Shoutout

With the winning Moona Lisa are Evie Rullis, Alexandra Strainic, Lachlan Keating, Mexico Chalk, Azrielle Ball and Laetitia Cox.

‘Moona Lisa’ brings learners to yard

Coffs Harbour agriculture students have taken home a national prize for their eye-catching NSW entry in the udderly compelling Picasso Cows competition – check out the latest moos

Creative Shoutout

KIDS NEWS 2024: Schoolyard Shoutout from Port Douglas State School, April 29. Picture: supplied

Escape room excites new skills

Student superheroes must work together to free a favourite cartoon character from his cage at Port Douglas State School, as the new Escape Room activity fires imagination and teamwork

Creative Shoutout

Be inspired by top teen artists

The multi-site showcase of the most outstanding NSW artworks by HSC visual arts students is here – meet these exemplary young artists and see their amazing works as they set out after school

STEM stars, dare-to-dreamers, deadly debaters – we applaud academic excellence

Academic Shoutout

Six of South Australia's top school debaters. Pictures: Supplied

SA debaters get career headstart

Meet 20 of the South Australia’s brightest and most argumentative students, excelling at the ancient art while honing skills for very bright futures

Academic Shoutout

Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia attends the Accelerator for Enterprising Women: Kickstarter Challenge Grand Final 2024 at Parliament House, Canberra.

Enterprising QLD girl gets a gong

Queensland teenager’s big idea to help crop farmers impressed after the Charters Towers student’s ‘Moisture Master’ innovation wowed the Governor-General and made it all the way to the King

Academic Shoutout

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 22: Queen Camilla presents certificates to past participants of The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition during a visit to the Green Square Library on October 22, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. The King's visit to Australia is his first as monarch, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa will be his first as head of the Commonwealth. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Spelling Bee champ meets Queen

Spelling Bee champions clearly have a way with words, as when 2024 Red level (Years 7-8) champion Aditya Paul met the Queen in Sydney as a finalist in the Commonwealth Essay Competition

Academic Shoutout

Brain breaks and boogie bring ‘joy’

Nominated by a parent in the Australia’s Best Teachers campaign, Foundation teacher at Our Lady of Pines Michael Zerbi said being a bit silly allows school starters to reset and learn

Submission guidelines

Schoolyard Shoutout submissions must be made by school staff only in relation to students at their school. Student and parent submissions are not eligible for consideration.

Registered homeschool parent teachers may submit materials where proof of homeschool registration has been provided.

School staff must only submit the name and/or image of a student if the staff member has prior permission; if the student is 18yo or more, then from the student, and otherwise from the parent or legal guardian of the student. That permission must include a release to allow for the publisher of KidsNews to publish online the submission in whole or in part, to identify the student including by identifying the school they attend and to edit the submission prior to publication.

Please submit no more than 250 words plus a minimum of two high resolution colour images with captions for consideration.

Video submissions should be supplied in landscape as an MP4 file.

Only submissions in one of these four categories will be considered: Sport, Academic, Creative and Community.

Publication remains at the discretion of Kids News editors and no correspondence will be entered into regarding a school notice that has not been published on the noticeboard.

Submissions may be sent for consideration to schoolyardshoutout@news.com.au.

Please direct any questions or concerns regarding content on Schoolyard Shoutout to Kids News Editor Diana Jenkins at diana.jenkins@news.com.au.