Deputy Principal

Emergency Fire Drills

Last week we practised our first Emergency Evacuation Drill for the year with the whole school.  The scenario was an external fire threat situated in the stick area. As the students were on the playground it was a great opportunity to move them from an external environment to an internal environment.  

Staff involved in the scenario were involved in checking rooms for children or staff who may have not heard the siren and other staff were involved in directly looking after the wellbeing of their class.  Students moved calmly from the playground to the line-up area and were then evacuated into the main building.

It is extremely important to have staff and students involved in these types of practices and engaged in different scenarios to ensure that if there was ever a real emergency, they would know what to do. Congratulations to all students and staff for their work with this drill. We will have more throughout the year to ensure other emergencies are covered.

NCCD - Students with Disabilities

For schools in Australia, students with a disability are funded based on adjustments through the NCCD funding allocation.  The allocation of funding is funded under the NCCD (National Consistent Collection of Data) scheme for students with additional needs and disabilities. There are four categories for funding -   QDTP (Quality Differentiated Teaching Practice), Supplementary, Substantial and Extensive levels under the categories of Physical, Social-Emotional, Cognitive, and Sensory (sight and hearing). As a part of our data collection, we are required to have meetings with parents throughout the year to feedback on goals that have been set for our students and the adjustments to learning that are made on a daily basis so that all students can access the curriculum.  This is an important part of the process which includes Parent-Teacher interviews, catch-ups in the drop-off zone, after-school meetings, emails etc, and informs you of your son or daughter's challenges and successes. 

If at any time you are concerned about the progress of your child it is extremely important to communicate with your child’s teacher. The best way to ensure your concerns are heard is to make a meeting directly with your child’s classroom teacher either via email or to ring the school to make an appointment.  

All families whose children meet the funding criteria will receive a copy of the current Personalised Learning Plan (PLP) from your child's teacher in the coming weeks so that you can see the nominated goals for the term.  It is important that you read through the goals and information in the plan. Please contact me or your child's teacher if you have any questions related to the information in the plan. Once again we will sign off on PLPs with a PSG meeting at the end of the term.  These are proposed to take place on Wednesday 29th March/Thursday 30th March / Friday 31st March.  An email will be distributed in the coming weeks alerting families to booking times.

A link to the NCCD Portal and further information about the NCCD process and collection of information can be found by clicking the button below.