Accountability

WORKING TOGETHER

Communication

Please do your best to communicate face to face with our colleagues; texts and emails can appear abrupt and thus create misunderstandings.
We are fortunate to be collaborative and make the effort to help others rather than expect others to do jobs for us.

Please do not send messages on Compass but include your messages in the Briefing Notes.
The Briefing Notes ensure that everyone is aware of what is happening in the school even if not involved.
The Briefing Notes are also intended to massively reduce emails so

Use the Briefing Notes.

Janet

Master Timetable

Part Time Teachers: Make sure that you are aware of your responsibilities which are identified in the Master Timetable.

Your NCT has been calculated based on the VGSA. If you are not clear about how your time fractions are being managed, please view the table in rows 43 - 53.

If you would like any clarification, please see Janet.

LEAVE

As I have had quite a number of leave requests, please understand that Leave without Pay will only be approved on compassionate grounds for which evidence will be required.

Year Level Information Sessions - Week 4

As in previous years, we will be running our Year Level Information Sessions in Week 4 (Monday 16-Fri 20 February). Sessions will run for 1 hour, between 4:30-5:30pm.

The aim of these sessions is to give parents and carers the opportunity to see our teams working collaboratively together and to hear all about the learning and wellbeing programs that their children will engage in during 2026.

To ensure part-time staff are present on the correct days for their information evenings, the schedule will be as follows:

Mon 16 Feb: Years 5 & 6
Tue 17 Feb: Foundation & Year 1
Wed 18 Feb: Years 3 & 4
Thu 19 Feb: Year 2

Specialists will organise which sessions they will attend and will present on behalf of the whole specialist team.

All 2025 slideshows are available on the Staff Drive - Accountability - Communication - Parent Information Evenings- 2025. Please prepare your 2026 presentations in advance of Week 4 and save into the 2026 folder on the drive.

Kim

PLC Leaders - please read carefully

Wednesday is our first PLC Data Analysis for Planning session.

PLC leaders, the agenda is as follow:

Analyse your student data on ElastiK
Complete the 2026 Data Conversation with your team
- Each team has a sub-tab under each termly tab
- Please note that the pink highlighted weeks are the compulsory data to discuss based on our assessment schedule - do not change this as it follows our Assessment schedule
- Add the data and/or pre-tests/work samples that you will discuss each week for this Term in the empty rows
Conversations must be minuted in the document as per the FISO cycle reflected by the 4 questions in the 4 columns

Please reach out to Nancy, Kim or Janet if you need any clarification before your Wednesday meeting.

DET is Simplifying administrative tasks

For Your Information: information from DET

Individual Education Plans: clarifying when they are needed

In 2026, we will start to update our Individual Education Plans (IEPs) policy, guidance and resources. This includes clarifying when IEPs are required, so that teachers spend less time drafting plans and more time implementing effective learning adjustments. Teachers will also have the option to use a more streamlined (optional) IEP template.

Consolidating student plans

We have reduced, removed or simplified student health plans. This has streamlined collection of individual student health information, and reduced duplication with other health plans. For example:

Asthma – a Student Health Support Plan is no longer required for students with an Asthma Action Plan whose asthma is otherwise well-controlled
Epilepsy and Seizures – a Student Health Support Plan is no longer required for students with an Epilepsy Management Plan
Health Care Needs – several forms have been simplified and consolidated to support school, family and treating health team discussion
Medication – schools can accept more evidence of prescriber authorisation, including original (pharmacy) labels on medicines, with an updated Medication Authority Form.

We also have a new Attendance Support Plan. The plan combines Attendance Improvement Plans (primary and secondary) and the Return to School Plans. Schools can use the new, single plan to more efficiently develop a tailored approach to attendance improvement for a student.

You can gradually incorporate use of these updated templates and processes throughout 2026.

More administrative support for teachers

We launched the Operational Teaching Assistant in Term 3, 2025. The pilot is trialling new school-based roles to ease teachers’ administrative work. That is, having education support staff manage non-teaching administrative tasks. Early feedback from participating schools indicates the new roles are having a positive impact. We will continue to monitor and evaluate the pilot throughout 2026 and use the findings to inform future policy decisions.

Policy, guidance and resources

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