AS school holidays come to an end next week, parents across the region are preparing for their kids to start the 2025 school year.

For the Breuker family, this school year is a special one with 11-year-old Chase Breuker in his last year of primary school at Sacred Heart Parish School, and his five-year-old sister Lyla Breuker starting kindergarten.

Sacred Heart is starting term 1 on Tuesday, Feb...