THE ST JOEY'S SCOOP

PBL Update, ICAS Tests & NCCD

PBL Update

We have moved to the next phase of our PBL journey at SJJU, focusing on explicitly teaching and positively reinforcing expected behaviors. This term we will focus on a different behaviour each fortnight:

 

Week 1-2: We walk in the courtyard

Week 3-4: We use safe hands safe feet

Week 5-6: Own your actions and words

Week 7-8: We show good sportsmanship

Week 9-10: We use kind words and actions

 

 

Our plan is to introduce the expected behaviour at our Monday morning assembly. During the fortnight, staff will re-teach, reinforce and reward students for demonstrating the behavior by giving them a Gotcha. At our Friday Awards Assembly we will draw prize winners from the Gotcha raffle.

 

 

If you have any questions, feedback or concerns about PBL, please don't hesitate to contact me at maloneys1@ww.catholic.edu.au or through the school office.

ICAS Tests

We know our students are amazing, so we’re again giving them the opportunity to showcase and celebrate their talents in the world-renowned ICAS competition this year.

  

What is ICAS?  

ICAS is an online academic competition that gives students the opportunity to challenge their higher order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics and Writing.

  

Every student who participates is celebrated and recognised with a printed certificate in each subject area, and an online results report to track development each year. Top performers are eligible for one of the highly coveted ICAS medals.

  

To learn more about this year’s exciting ICAS competition, visit:  (icasassessments.com/products-icas/). In coming weeks families will be provided with details of how to register,

NCCD

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability

 

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 - individual children 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 don't hesitate to contact me at maloneys1@ww.catholic.edu.au

 

Warm regards

Simone Maloney

Assistant Principal