One Up Day and Transitions for 2022

During the week before school returns for students, we will provide opportunities for students on Personalised Plans to come into their new classroom with their parents to support the transition process. The purpose of this is to give students the opportunity to look around their new classroom and to have an informal conversation with their new teacher. Rebecca Neiberding will send an email out before the end of the year with the avaiable dates and times. We will also contact particular families for additional transitions. 

One Up Day is the day that students will find out who their teacher is for next year. They will have the oppurtunity to go to their new classroom and spend some time with their new teacher. This will take place on Thursday, 16 December (Week 11) from 2-3pm. Matthew will provide a list of teachers for each class in next week's newsletter.

Students with Disability Survey

Our school has been selected to complete the Students with Disability Survey. This online survey is part of the Students With Disability Loading Settings Review Project. The purpose of the project is to develop an evidence base of the cost of adjustments for students with disability in schools across Australia. This is an important national project that may impact on future funding for schools.

The data gathered through this survey will be used to derive an average per-student cost for the provision of adjustments for students with disability. The term 'cost' includes both our school's effort and out-of-pocket expenditure to enable a student with disability to access their education on the same basis as students without disability. These costs are in addition to the provision of mainstream education i.e. on top of the costs that would have otherwise been incurred if the student did not have a disability.

• The data gathered through this survey will be used to inform the actual cost incurred in schools and by the sector (in the case of systemic schools).
• Information collected will be de-identified and aggregated such that even data from small schools will not be able to be used to reasonably identify any individuals.
• This information will only be used for analysis and policy development.
• Our school, together with others from across jurisdictions and sectors, has been selected to participate in this survey through a randomised sampling approach.
• The survey takes approximately 15 minutes per student to complete, this includes the time taken to gather relevant information and consult with relevant stakeholders in our school.
• All data will be kept confidential and is hosted in PwC Australia's managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment.

Community Council Hamper Raffle - Tickets now available in the front office

We now have tickets avaiable in the front office, as well as the Qkr app under Community Council Events/Fundraising.

The Hamper Raffle will be drawn on Thursday 9th December (Week 10). 

If you can't make a decision on which hamper to choose, then the "All Hampers" ticket is the one for you. Purchase one ticket for $10 and you will get one ticket in each hamper.

The price of tickets are as follows:

1 ticket = $2

3 tickets = $5

5 tickets = $7

Rebekah Brown

Assistant Principal and Inclusion Coordinator