Expect a warm and possibly wet start to the year/week. The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a top of 35 degrees and up to 10 millimetres of rainfall in the capital on Monday. That's probably not what you want to hear if you've taken the day off to go to the cricket. Temperatures will cool slightly as the week rolls on, but its not expected to drop below 27.

Before you (a) head to work, (b) drop the kids off at school or (c) start preparing for your Super Bowl party, have a read of what's making news in Canberra this morning.

A school with no classrooms or year levels, where teachers are not teachers but "learning coaches". Canberra, the future of education is here.

The capital's new public school, Margaret Hendry School in Taylor, will open its doors on Monday, welcoming its first wave of 242 students.

The school, which cost $34 million to build, is a large open-plan building, full of nooks, couches and adaptable studios with sliding doors. It's the first school designed according to the ACT government's new school-construction brief, and is expected to be powered entirely by renewable energy - a first for the capital.

Sherryn Groch visited the school and spoke with its inaugural principal ahead of the big day. Here's what she learnt.

Two years after being awarded the contract to create the Kingston Arts Precinct, construction giant Geocon is still negotiating details of the project with the Suburban Land Agency. And it's not clear why the process has stalled.

Local residents were told in 2017 that the precinct would include 7000 square metres of arts facilities and 11 apartments for visiting artists. But few other details have been made public.

Amid the apparent delay, one of the artist groups supposed to shift to Kingston, the Canberra Potters' Society, has announced it will instead remain in Watson.

Jasper Lindell has the story here.

It's the spiritual base of Summernats, and will play centre stage at this year's Groovin The Moo festival. Could Canberra's Exhibition Park soon be home to more than loud cars and loud music?

The ACT government has released a tender to start the process of scoping out the area's suitability for housing.  A government spokesman said the brief was for preliminary investigations and no decisions had been made on the redevelopment of the area. It's worth noting the territory has already flagged the prospect of building 8000 new homes in the area as part of a wider plan for more high-density housing on the light rail route.

Assembly reporter Katie Burgess has the details.

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Philip Gibbons, from the Australian National University's Fenner School of Environment and Society, says the ACT government could cut back on its multimillion-dollar annual mowing bill by transforming grassy areas into native oases.

As the city becomes more compact, Professor Gibbons says the remaining green space has to be managed in a more sustainable way - both from an economic and an ecological perspective. He says the government should look at replacing grassed areas with native shrubs, dead wood, rocks and trees.

Katie Burgess spoke with professor Gibbons about the cost cutting proposal. 

They're the latest trend in inner-city transportation. So could dockless electric scooters soon be buzzing around on Canberra's streets?

Road Safety Minister Shane Rattenbury has instructed government officials to develop a framework to allow the scooters to safely and lawfully operate in the nation's capital. There's a few hoops to clear, not least of all the existing road rules which ban electric scooters from riding on roads in the ACT.

I've got more details here.