School News

NAPLAN Online Readiness Trial 

Next Tuesday, 27th November, Year 3, 4 and 6 students will be participating in the NAPLAN Online School Readiness Test (SRT). This trial is to prepare for our transition to NAPLAN Online in 2019.

SRT is not another NAPLAN. It is not an assessment of the literacy and numeracy skills of students. SRT is a check of our school’s IT capacity, logistics and administration processes. It is an opportunity to confirm that our school can conduct test sessions under test conditions and national test protocols, troubleshoot any technical issues and manage the availability of our local IT when running online test sessions.

Privacy Identifiable student data needs to be uploaded into the platform for schools to be able to run SRT. For this reason, families of students in the primary years were emailed earlier this term a copy of the privacy notice. This can also be accessed via the link below.  

The national online assessment platform has been designed to comply with relevant national data security policies, guidelines and standards. Further information about NAPLAN Online is available on the National Assessment Program (NAP) website http://www.nap.edu.au/ The NAP website also features a public demonstration site for teachers, students and parents to become familiar with the look and feel of the online platform. 

If you have further questions please contact me via email or phone.

Telphone: 84435544

@: mirjana.grubor793@schools.sa.edu.au

Mirjana GRUBOR

Flinders University - Speech and Language Fluency Disorders Clinic

Community clinics, services and programs

Flinders University offers a number of health, psychology, disability support, legal advice and nutritional services through our range of clinics and programs.  One of these services is a Speech and Language Fluency Disorder Clinic. 

The Flinders University Speech Pathology student clinic provides stuttering and cluttering assessment and therapy services to preschoolers, school children and adolescents with a fluency disorder. This clinic is run by an experienced Speech Pathology clinical educator who is employed by Flinders University.

Services Provided

The Fluency Disorders Clinic provides:

• Individual Speech Pathology Assessment directed towards you/your child’s specific communication needs.
• Specific feedback regarding the Speech Pathology Assessment results, focussing on areas of both strength and weakness.
• Joint goal setting between the client and the student clinician to allow the client to have a significant input into the communication program developed.
• Weekly or fortnightly individual or group therapy program based on the Speech Pathology assessment results, and identified goals.
• Written assessment report.
• Provision of a home program to encourage and reinforce progress for the duration of the therapy program.

Cost of program per client

• Initial Assessment Sessions (usually two per client) $55 per session (up to 60 mins)
• Individual Treatment Session $40 per session (up to 60 mins)
• Group Treatment Session $25 per session (up to 60 mins)
• Maintenance Session $25 per session (up to 30 mins)

Location

• [Wednesday only] Flinders Medical Centre level 6 Dept Speech Pathology & Audiology Flinders Drive BEDFORD PARK SA 5042 Northern Clinic Venue
• [Thursday only] Women’s &Children’s Hospital Ground Floor, Good Friday Building 72 King William Road NORTH ADELAIDE SA 5006

For more information see the attached brochure.