The Bulletin 29 June 2017 Term 2 - Issue 11

Term
2
Issue
11

AISWA Professional Learning and other educational events, news and information

Featured AISWA Professional Learning
Date Event Title Code
Jul 24 2017
Sharp Reading: Decoding Strategy Instruction Stages 1&2
  • Literacy
11066
Jul 25 2017
Sharp Reading: Comprehension Strategy Instruction - Stage 3
  • Literacy
11067
Jul 26 2017
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data for School Students with Disability (NCCD) Moderation Workshop
  • Inclusive Education
11053
Jul 26 2017
CSER Digital Technologies - 2 DAY Immersion to undertake CSER Course certification, Term 3
  • ICT Skills and Integration
  • STEM
  • Technologies
  • Part 1 26th Jul 2017
  • Part 2 27th Jul 2017
11375
Jul 26 2017
Digital Technologies - CSER 2 HOUR Briefing Session - national initiative courses and lending library, Term 3
  • ICT Skills and Integration
  • Leadership
  • STEM
  • Technologies
11380
Jul 31 2017
Teaching Digital Technologies Concepts Years 7-10 (CSER)
  • ICT Skills and Integration
  • STEM
  • Technologies
11382
Aug 7 2017
How to choose an SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) Program for your School
  • Psychology and Wellbeing
11074
Aug 22 2017
Embodied Literacy – Using Drama to support literacy learning
  • Literacy
  • The Arts
11366
Aug 23 2017
Youth Mental Health First Aid
  • Psychology and Wellbeing
  • Part 1 23rd Aug 2017
  • Part 2 30th Aug 2017
11060

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FIRST LEGO League (FLL)

Curtin University is hosting the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) 2017 Regional competition in Western Australia. With team registrations multiplying, Curtin University will be co-hosting with St Stephen’s School Carramar and Comet Bay College Secret Harbour.

For more information on the Competition please visit their website http://scieng.curtin.edu.au/about-us/outreach/first-lego-league-fll/

If you have not registered to attend, but would like to, please applying for a Google grant to help cover your costs: For more information please click on the link below.

https://firstaustralia.org/get-involved/grant-applications/

NEW CHILD PROTECTION REPORTING

The Child Protection and Family Support Department is conducting an internal restructure which will see the implementation of a Central Team responsible for assessing all new reports of concern for children in the metropolitan area (see flyer). This will result in a single referral point for new concerns for children rather than needing to refer to one of the 8 metro district offices (Armadale, Cannington, Fremantle, Joondalup, Midland, Mirrabooka, Perth, Rockingham).  This change will come into effect from Monday 3rd July 2017. There is one exception to this, reports made under Mandatory Reporting legislation will still be referred to the Mandatory Reporting Service (same process that operates currently).

The Department is also developing a revised version of the Child Protection Referral Form. Once finalised this will be distributed to relevant parties (including AISWA), and this information will be forwarded to schools.

For information please see attached Flyer

WWW WHAT'S WORKING WELL to build the social and emotional learning of children online and offline?

Technological change is moving so quickly. This seminar will discuss evidence from research that investigated the online behaviours of children and young people and actions parents and other members of the school community can take to protect and enhance their own and their children’s digital lives (and reputations) and to minimise possible cyber-related harms from their interactions in an online environment.

For more information please click here

RESILIENT TEACHERS, RESILIENT SCHOOLS; Building and sustaining quality in testing times | Monday, 24th July | 4.30pm - 5.30 pm.

Please join the Murdoch School of Education for a seminar presented by Dr Qing Gu, professor of education at the University of Nottingham, influential author and researcher, and current co-director of an Education Department of West Australia funded project on early career teachers’ resilience and effectiveness.

For more inforamtion please click here

RIGHT WRONGS - '67 Referendum - WA 50 years on

To acknowledge these milestones, the Western Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs’ Aboriginal History Research Unit has developed an information toolkit to provide a unique WA perspective of this event and look at the progress of Aboriginal rights in WA to date. The Toolkit aims to educate the broader public and to be incorporated into WA school curricula, to focus on the history of these significant events and open up contemporary dialogue with the Aboriginal community.

For more information please visit the DAA webite at   https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/community-development/right-wrongs---67-referendum---wa-50-years-on/ 

Or through the Western Australian Museum website at: http://museum.wa.gov.au/referendum-1967/educational-toolkit

1-MINUTE FILM COMPETITION 2017 - CALLING FOR ENTRIES FROM SCHOOL STUDENTS | Entries close at midday AEST | Friday 28 July.

The competition provides Australian and New Zealand primary and secondary–school students with the opportunity to make a 1-minute film or animation, and win fantastic prizes in the process. The theme for this year’s competition is ‘Tomorrow’.Students should be creative with the theme: they can include it in their film as a spoken line, in the background, as a caption or in some other way.

For more information,or to entre please visit the 1-Minutecompetition website http://1-minutefilmcompetition.org/

FRED HOLLOWS HUMANITY AWARD | Nominations open on Monday, 24th July 2017 and close on Sunday 10 September 2017.

The Fred Hollows Foundation is calling for teachers, parents and community members to nominate students for the Fred Hollows Humanity Award. The Fred Hollows Humanity Award recognises Year 6 students who are following in Fred Hollows’ footsteps by showing compassion, integrity and kindness in their everyday lives.  

For more information please see attached pdf Fred Hollows Humanity Award.docx