Christmas spirit

anxiety or frustrations but with a severe lack of funding the schools don’t have the resources to implement such strategies, be it occupational or speech therapy or training for staff to name a few. It’s another area in our society the government has sidelined and it’s our children and the staff who want to be there to teach them who suffer, leading to inappropriate headlines about violent children.

Deborah Will More resources are needed to deal with challenging behaviour to get enough staff to do prevention work/ de-escalate while still educating the children and break out spaces for the children to go when they are distressed, so that neither they or staff are in harm’s way. If you have multiple classes of children with frequent challenging behaviour having to share one breakout space, it’s no surprise that staff or other children get hurt and the meltdowns take longer to resolve.

Megan Cherry Parents have slammed a primary school after sending kids home with a Christmas play script – where their characters complain about boozing.

Come on. The whole nativity scene is straight out of Jeremy Kyle. Mary the virgin is pregnant, Joseph believes her then three rich dudes turn up with gifts.

Simon Smith

Who in their right mind would think this is appropriate?

Heather Thomson

Overcoming the “funny drunk” routine is one of the biggest battles against alcoholism.

Gary EJ It’s literally the birthday of someone who turned water into wine.

Konstantin Hemingway