Hello everyone and welcome to Week 2.
This week I will be meeting with our SRC students to organise our first event. We are planning on running our Mother’s Day stall again and have ordered some fantastic gifts. We will be busy at lunch times creating some additional presents to sell and deciding on rosters and the logistics of organising our stall. Our goodies will be on sale before and after school from Wednesday to Friday next week. Please ensure you get in early so we don’t have disappointments.
Playing our part to build a national picture of child healthIn early 2021, our school, along with thousands of others across the country will begin preparations for the fifth Australian Early Development Census [AEDC].
The AEDC gives us a national picture of the development, health and wellbeing of children in their first year of full-time school. Since 2009, the census results have helped communities, schools and governments plan services and develop better policies to target support for children and families.
Children don’t miss any class time, and parents/carers don’t need to supply schools with any new information for the census. The AEDC gives us data at a school and community level - it isn’t an assessment of individual children.
Teachers have also noticed that completing the assessments made them more aware of the needs of individual children and the class as a whole and that the census results are useful in planning for transitions to Year 1 and developing class programs.
Participation in the AEDC is voluntary. Parents/carers don’t need to take any action unless they choose not to include their children in the census.
To find out more about the census and how communities are using the data to help children and families visit the AEDC website: www.aedc.gov.au.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in contact.
Genevieve Donohue, [Assistant Principal]