Lockdown learning: Student wellbeing top priority at NT school

Chelsea Channing

By Chelsea Channing
Published April 28, 2020

What may have started as an unprecedented opportunity to get some time off school, now has many Australian students feeling a sense of loss and anxiety and wondering ‘what’s the point?’.

That’s what Jade Briscoe, head of wellbeing at Good Shepherd Lutheran College in the Northern Territory, has observed since COVID-19 shattered what ...

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