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Assistant Principals' Report

Dear HPS Community,

 

Hello and welcome to our newsletter item for this week. 

 

Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series

The Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series (VCES) provides funded extension activities for high-ability students in Victorian government schools from Prep to Year 12. Within the series, education expert partners are delivering a suite of face-to-face and virtual incursions and excursions, such as workshops, tutorials, conferences, lectures and competitions, across all areas of the curriculum. 

 

This week, eleven students from Year 5 participated in an all-day writing workshop offered through VCES, with author Aisla Wild and five other primary schools across Victoria. The theme of the workshop was ‘putting your characters in danger.’ Students explored how to create and develop characters, through the lens of their characters facing challenging situations. 

They described the feelings and emotions of characters using their senses and sense memory. They shared their ideas with each other and the workshop group throughout the day, and began a draft of a narrative using what they had learnt and explored during the workshop. At the end of the workshop there was time to share their narratives with peers and listen to, and provide, feedback on their writing.

 

 

Throughout the session, the students were actively engaged and clearly inspired. It was also evident in the discussions with the students after the session how much they enjoyed it! Thank you to Stef Galvin, Learning Specialist who supported the students throughout the day. 

 

 

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data 

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

 

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

  • year of schooling
  • category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
  • level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

  • formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools 
  • consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
  • develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

 

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. 

 

To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).

 

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

 

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please get in contact with us here at school. 

 

Have a great weekend! 

 

Helen Thomas & Monique Rankin

Assistant Principals

Heidelberg Primary School