Parents

This week, parents of students in NSW public schools will start receiving Click -– the NSW Government’s ‘Technology Guide for Parents’.

The Raising Children Network (http://raisingchildren.net.au/) is a government supported website providing information to help parents with the day-to-day decisions of raising children. Children are as individual and as different as their parents.

Finding enough volunteers to keep the canteen running is a challenge for schools of all sizes.

In devising a solution for Killarney Heights Public School, two enterprising parents have also paved the way for canteens to become more profitable and for lunch orders to be healthier, cash-free and parent friendly.

At least six public high schools in NSW conduct "roll call" by scanning student fingerprints, but the Department of Education yesterday suspended the project at Ku-ring-gai High School as it investigates complaints that parents were not properly consulted.

Schools could do more to support child care and early childhood development, federal Education Minister Julie Bishop said yesterday.

The minister urged development of early childhood learning centres at schools.

She said that was frustrated by differences in state-based education systems.