Going to School

Follow the links below to find information about starting and finishing school, and related issues such as exams and friendships.

Updated May 2008

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Title:   Helping teenagers grow up safely
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Information for parents about the Peer Support Program in primary and high schools; how it encourages children to grow up safe and healthy.
Date:   Feb 1997
Title:   Starting boarding school
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   This fact sheet contains information about making the choice to go away to school, leaving home and making life easier at school
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   School lunches
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Many children eat much of their food each day away from home. Although some services provide meals, parents often need to send enough food along for the day. Foods will stay fresher and taste better if they're individually wrapped.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   School mornings
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Ideas, games and routines to take some of the pressure out of school mornings.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Homework
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Understanding why teachers give homework, what they expect and how to talk to them about homework; also gives guidance on getting your child to do homework.
Date:   Jun 2006
Title:   Let's get fruity at school
Publisher:   Nutrition Australia
Description:   The program, Let's Get Fruity, sets out to encourage good nutritional habits among the youngsters by having an organised fruit and water time during classroom activities.
Date:   Jan 2006
Title:   School-age children at play
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   An introduction to the type of play school-age children enjoy and how it makes their brains develop. Includes suggestions for age-appropriate games.
Date:   Jul 2006
Title:   Going to high school
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Going to high school can be exciting but sometimes also a bit of a scary thought for some kids, particularly if you have spent all your school life in the one school.
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   School-based education programmes for the prevention of child sexual abuse
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Childhood sexual abuse is a serious problem for school aged children worldwide. There is no consistent definition of sexual abuse. Some studies restrict sexual abuse to instances of sexual body contact with the child, while others define sexual abuse as...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   School
Publisher:   Headroom (Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide)
Description:   School is not a mental health issue directly, but it can affect someone's mental health. Bullying, going/not going to school, changing schools, favourite teachers and study areas are a few issues that could be positive or negative on your mental health.
Date:   Jan 2002
Title:   Learning to write (easy read)
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Writing is easy if you learn how to make the letters right from the start. It takes time.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Starting school
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   School can be a strange and scary place for beginners. Young children usually have to cope with bigger buildings, lots more children who are older and bigger and less adults for support.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   School-based driver education for the prevention of traffic crashes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Teenagers have a higher risk of road death and serious injury than any other group. School based driver education has been promoted as a strategy to reduce the number of road crashes involving teenagers. The results of this systematic review show that d...
Date:   May 2001
Title:   Study tips
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   There are many things in life that cause us stress. One of the most stressful can be sitting exams or keeping up with study.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   High school? No worries
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Lots of kids ask questions about going to high school so we asked some high school kids for a bit of advice on making a good start. These are some of the things that they said.
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   Dealing with exams and the aftermath
Publisher:   Headroom (Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide)
Description:   Exams and assessments. We all hate 'em, but most of us will have to do at least one in our life. Some of us feel like we will be doing them forever. What I want to write about is how you deal with the getting through exams and then the wait for your results - the aftermath.
Date:   Jan 2002
Title:   About school counsellors
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   We often say 'talk to a trusted adult', and put school counsellor on the list, but what is a school counsellor? A school counsellor is a person who has been trained to help kids with their problems.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Going to boarding school
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Most kids go to school during the day and come home to their families or caregivers at night. Sometimes kids can't go home every night so they 'board' or live at school during term time and go home during the holidays.
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   School uniform - yuk!
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   The word uniform means literally, 'having the same form'. So a school uniform means that every kid in the school wears the same clothes. Uniforms show that you are part of the same group.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   When you don't want to go to school - easy read
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Sometimes kids don't want to go to school.
Date:   Jan 2007
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