Dear Parents and Carers,

We invite you to attend Student Led Conferences as part of our Curriculum Week celebrations this term. Student Led Conferences are an opportunity for you to share your children’s learning celebrations and goals in a facilitated discussion with your child in their classroom.

The conferences will be held on Tuesday August 22nd in your child’s classroom.

Conferences will follow a new format:

Up to four families will be present in each classroom at one time, however, your child will be sharing with only their immediate family.
Your child will lead the conference, displaying their achievements, goals and work samples with you in a structured format.
You are able to ask questions and engage with your child to find out more about their learning experiences, achievements and goals. Conferences work best as a natural conversation about learning.
Prompt guides will be provided for parents and students to facilitate discussions.
Your child’s teacher will be in the classroom, assisting your child with the conference and providing support if required.
Each conference has a timeframe of 15 minutes and it is important that time frames are adhered to, to ensure teachers have time to prepare for the next conference.

Booking Multiple Conferences: For parents with multiple children at school, we ask that you ensure you book a separate time frame for each child to ensure there is sufficient time for your child to conduct a full conference with you. Please see advice below.

Specialist Class Conferences are also available with limited spaces and will need to be booked separately to classroom conferences using the Specialist Class booking. All Specialist conferences will be held in the Art Room with students sharing learning of all 4 specialist subjects at one time. Specialist teachers will be available from 3:50 pm and conferences will be 15 minutes in duration.

We ask that you sign up for your Student Led Conference via Sentral Interviews section, open now.

Sentral does not allow for multiple appointments to be made at the same time, therefore you will see one minute intervals when you log on. Please note the starting time for ALL.

It is important to note that conferences will start at the following times:

Conferences listed at 3:10, 3:11, 3:12 and 3:13 will begin promptly at 3:10pm

Conferences listed at 3:30, 3:31, 3:32 and 3:33 will begin promptly at 3:30pm

Conferences listed at 3:50, 3:51, 3:52 and 3:53 will begin promptly at 3:50pm

Conferences listed at 4:10, 4:11, 4:12 and 4:13 will begin promptly at 4:10pm

Conferences listed at 4:30, 4:31, 4:32 and 4:33 will begin promptly at 4:30pm

Conferences listed at 5:20, 5:21, 5:22 and 5:23 will begin promptly at 5:20pm

Conferences listed at 5:40, 5:41, 5:42 and 5:43 will begin promptly at 5:40pm

Conferences listed at 6:00, 6:01, 6:02 and 6:03 will begin promptly at 6:00pm

Please direct any questions to the office or Louisa Blamires as we are aware this is new and may cause some confusion. We are, however, really excited to be presenting Student Led Conferences in this new format, and know that you will all enjoy listening to your children share their new learnings.

2023 Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey:

SUBJECT: Invitation to participate in the 2023 Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey

Dear Parent/Caregiver/Guardian

Your family is asked to participate in the 2023 Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey. The Department of Education has contracted ORIMA Research (ORIMA) to conduct the survey. ORIMA is Australia’s leading provider of end-to-end research and data analytics services to the public and not-for-profit sector.

Each year the school conducts an opinion survey with the school community.

All families are invited to participate in the survey. Results will be used to inform and direct our future school planning and improvement.

I ask you to please take the time to complete the survey as your opinions are important to us and will contribute to the future management and organisation of our school. The department will use the results from the survey for research purposes and to improve outcomes for students.

The survey will be conducted online and only takes 20 minutes to complete.
- The survey can be completed on any internet enabled device (desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone) and is compatible with most browsers.
The survey will be open from Monday 7 August to Friday 8 September 2023.
The survey is available in English and 10 other languages including Arabic, Greek, Hakha Chin, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Please be assured that your responses are completely confidential. The survey is conducted anonymously, and it is important to us that you complete the survey as honestly as possible. You will be provided with a PIN to complete the survey. This is to ensure that parents / caregivers / guardians only complete the survey once. The school can never see your responses linked with the PIN.

Please follow the instructions below to complete the survey. PLEASE NOTE: Only one parent / caregiver / guardian from your family is invited to complete the survey. Please DO NOT share the survey link and PIN with others, or on a public website, forum or similar.

To complete the survey, simply:

Click on the link below, or copy and paste the text into your browser. This link will take you directly to the survey.

https://www.orima.com.au/parent

Select the School and Campus name below.

School Name: Chilwell Primary School

Campus Name: Chilwell Primary School

Enter the School PIN below.

PIN: 902852

When complete, please click on the tick button at the end of the survey to submit your answers. Please note that the survey will time out after 60 minutes of inactivity.

Thank you for taking the time to participate. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Questions?

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any general queries about the survey. For specific technical or participation-related queries, you may also contact the department or the supplier administering the survey, ORIMA Research.

Should you have any technical queries regarding the Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey, please do not hesitate to contact ORIMA Research on 1800 654 585 (toll-free during business hours), or by email: pos@orima.com.
Should you have any participation or survey-related queries, please contact the school, or the department by email: school.surveys@education.vic.gov.au.

The department and ORIMA protect your responses in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic), the Health Records Act 2001 (Vic) and the Public Records Act 1973 (Vic). For more information, please visit ORIMA’s Privacy Policy, and the department’s Schools' Privacy Policy.

Yours sincerely,

Meg Bone

Principal

MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING