Assistant
Principal News Flash
Jacana School for Autism
Daniel Moloney, Stephanie Torchia & Stefania Mantinioti
Welcome to the Team
PCT welcome to the team, Stefania Mantinioti, as our newly appointed Assistant Principal (Inclusion). Stefania brings with her extensive teaching experience in multiple specialist school settings in both Australia and the UK. More local to Jacana, Stefania brings experience as our Middle Sub School Leader to lead the schoolwide implementation of our Tier 1 ASD practices, neatly aligned with the DE’s Disability Inclusion priorities. We look forward to working with her in the years ahead.
Professional Practice Day (Monday, 2nd November)
As you know Monday, 2nd November is our Professional Practice Day thus is a pupil-free day. Our plan for this day is to offer and provide the following training:
- 2027 Class Lists Collaboration Process
- Child Safety Training
- Workplace Inspections
- Collaborative Team Building
- Semester Reporting Tasks
Semester 2 Reporting
Our teachers are undertaking important assessments to inform their final judgements, aligned with your children’s IEP goals for their Semester 2 Reports. These reports will be sent out to families on Friday, 4th December.
Term 4 SSGs
Our Term 4 Student Support Group (SSG) meetings will be conducted between Monday 9th to Thursday 26th November. Our teachers will be sending home notes for you shortly to confirm meeting times on a written form or via the Parent Meetings tab on XUNO (now active).
2027 Class Lists
Our leadership team collated all parent/carer and teacher feedback to formulate our DRAFT Class Lists for 2027. A copy of each child’s class list will be provided to families on Friday 4th December.
Notifying student absence on XUNO
You can now notify the school of your child's absence on XUNO. You can still continue to notify absences on the Student Absence Line: 0439 114 197
Extended Period of Absence Application Form
As part of JSA's Attendance Policy, we formalise parent/carer requests for students seeking approval for Extended Absence of 5 or more days (previously 3 days or more).
If you wish to express interest or intentions for your child to be away for 5 or more days, please ensure to complete the 'Extended period of absence application form' below.
All applications for extended absences will be reviewed by the Sub School Leader and Principal. Parent/Carers will be notified via email after consideration of application.
Child Safety Standards
At Jacana school for Autism, every student has the right to feel safe, respected and cared for. Victoria's Child Safe Standards are 11 rules that all schools must follow. They guide how we work, who we hire, how we listen to students and families and how we respond when something goes wrong.
Please take some time to read through our Child Safe Standards Posters.
