Curriculum Advisory Committees 2025

Contact
Maureen Lorimer (08) 9273 6397 [Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday]
Maureen.Lorimer@scsa.wa.edu.au

Practising teachers, and representatives from the following organisations: professional associations, universities, training, industry and the community, are advised that nominations for a range of positions for the Curriculum Advisory Committees (CACs) in the following phases of learning will be advertised early in Term 1 2025:

• Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood (Years 11 and 12)
• Early and Middle Adolescence (Years 7–10)
• Middle and Late Childhood (Years 3–6)
• Early Childhood (Years K–2).

These committees are responsible for providing expert advice to the School Curriculum and Standards Authority on a range of matters, including, but not limited to:

• the Western Australian Curriculum – Kindergarten to Year 10
• the Principles of Teaching, Learning and Assessment
• the Pre-primary to Year 10: Teaching, Assessing and Reporting Policy and Policy Standards for Pre-primary to Year 10: Teaching, Assessing and Reporting
• external assessments (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA), Externally Set Tasks (ESTs) and Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) course examinations)
• assessment and moderation – Pre-primary to Year 2, Years 3 to 6, Years 7 to 10, Years 11 and 12
• the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) syllabus requirements.

The Nomination Form will be accessible via a link that will be advertised in the February 2025 edition of the Kto10 Circulars and 11to12 Circulars.

As part of the nomination process you will be required to attach a 3-page curriculum vitae and an endorsement form (available to download from the first page of the Nomination Form).

The Terms of Reference are available via the following link and describe the structure and composition of the committees – https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/about-us/curriculum-advisory-committees.

Kindergarten to Year 2 new teaching and learning videos

Contact
Kristy Howson (08) 9273 6387
kristy.howson@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) has released new videos to support the implementation of the Early Years Learning Framework (the EYLF) from Kindergarten to Year 2.

The videos have been produced to support teaching and learning practices across the early years phase of schooling from Kindergarten to Year 2 https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/principles/guiding-principles/phases-of-schooling. They exemplify the Vision, Principles and Practices of the EYLF and the Learning Outcomes from the Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines.

The videos are available on the Authority website at: https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/early-years/early-childhood-teaching-and-learning-videos.

2025 Activities Schedule availability

Contact
Perpetua Joseph (08) 9273 6771
Perpetua.Joseph@scsa.wa.edu.au

The 2025 Activities Schedule is available on the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) website at three locations:

• https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/publications/activities-schedule
• https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/resources/activities-schedule
• https://senior-secondary.scsa.wa.edu.au/further-resources/activities-schedule.

The 2025 Term Calendar will be available on the Authority website in the near future.

The Outlook calendar will be available to download on a term-by-term basis. Any updates to the Activities Schedule will be noted in the Circular and replicated in new versions of the calendar.

The dates in this schedule are coded by coloured icons:

• Pink  activity relates to or includes primary schools
• Orange  dates are for items to be received by the Authority
• Blue  dates are for items to be available to or received by schools/providers
• Green  dates are significant to schools and the Authority.

Please see the PDF, on the Activities Schedule page, titled ‘Explanation of changes to the 2025 Activities Schedule’.

Application for recording of enrolment and achievement in ATAR Units 1 and 2 for students in Year 10 in 2026 (Year 8, 2024)

Contact
Kerry Tarrant (08) 9273 6770
Kerry.Tarrant@scsa.wa.edu.au

Principals are advised that the Application for recording of enrolment and achievement in ATAR Units 1 and 2 for students in Year 10 in 2026 (Year 8, 2024) must be received by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) no later than Thursday, 14 November 2024. The completed application form is to be emailed to certification@scsa.wa.edu.au.

An application form can be downloaded from the Authority website https://scsa.wa.edu.au/forms/forms under the Enrolments tab.

Schools should only apply if the studies are part of a longer-term program for students who are:

• gifted and talented, or
• accelerated language students.

For further information, please refer to Section 7 in the WACE Manual 2024. This publication is available on the Authority website https://scsa.wa.edu.au/publications/wace-manual.

Collection of other than Year 12 students’ achievement data – 2024

Contact
Kerry Tarrant (08) 9273 6770
Kerry.Tarrant@scsa.wa.edu.au

Schools are advised that the achievement data for students other than those in Year 12 is due to the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) by Thursday, 5 December 2024 as per the 2024 Activities Schedule.

Information about collecting achievement data was emailed to schools on Wednesday, 23 October 2024.

Schools will need to provide the achievement data for:

• Year 11 students enrolled in ATAR, General, Foundation, Preliminary and vocational education and training (VET) industry specific courses
• Year 11 students studying VET qualifications, VET units of competency, VET skill sets and endorsed programs
• Year 10 students studying VET qualifications, VET units of competency and endorsed programs.

Please check you have no missing achievements by running the CSE009 – Missing achievements by provider report in the Student Information Records System (SIRS). This report lists students and their enrolments in course units, endorsed programs and units of competency for which no results have been submitted.

The pathway to this report in SIRS is: Reports > Other reports > Report type: Missing achievements > Report: CSE009 – Missing achievements by provider.

The due date for Year 12 VET and endorsed program student achievement to the Authority was Thursday, 24 October 2024 as per the 2024 Activities Schedule. Tuesday, 19 November 2024 is the last date to make changes.

Conclusion of Pre-primary to Year 10 achievements collection trial

Contact
Daniel Creusot (08) 9273 6343
Daniel.Creusot@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) has concluded the Pre-primary to Year 10 (P–10) achievements collection trial. The Authority would like to thank all school systems and sector bodies and schools that participated in the P–10 achievements collection trial.

Feedback from the P–10 achievements collection trial will support the Authority to undertake further development work to improve the collection process and better support schools. This further development work aims to build on processes developed by school systems and sector during the trial.

Schools must continue to implement the Western Australian curriculum and report on student achievement in accordance with the Authority’s Pre-primary to Year 10: Teaching, Assessing and Reporting Policy and Policy Standards and relevant school systems and sector policy requirements.

How to Search for WA Student Numbers in SIRS

Contact
Data Services (08) 9273 6352
numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au
dataservices@scsa.wa.edu.au

Schools are advised that if a student arrives at your school from another school in Western Australia, or from overseas/interstate, you have the ability to search in the Student Information Records System (SIRS) for that student’s Western Australian student number (WASN) using a family name, given name and date of birth.

All student registrations should be recorded in SIRS by the end of Term 1. After this time, you will be able to search for students including the student’s previous school/s. You will know where to send a transfer note, if required.

1. Hover over Enrolments in the menu bar.
2. Click on Student Enrolment > Student Maintenance > Find Student Number (see image below).

The Find Student Number directory will appear (see image below). Enter the student’s Family Name, Given Name and Date of Birth.

3. Click Search.If the information you have entered exactly matches the information in SIRS, you will find a result even if the student is not at your school (see image below).

If the details you have requested are different from the information in SIRS (e.g. date of birth is different, Jackie is spelt as Jacky), no information will be found. If you are unable to locate a student number, please email numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au and provide the student’s:

• Family Name (Surname)
• Given Name (First Name)
• Date of Birth
• Academic Year
• Previous School (if known).

Please include your provider code in the email.

Troubleshooting: Search WASN

1. What happens if the requested information does not show?

   Email numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au and provide the student name, academic year and date of birth.

2. What happens when a single year (e.g. 2022 to 2022) is entered in the date range?

   Only a result for that year will be returned.

3. What does it mean when the Department of Education is shown as the student’s main provider?
   It means the student is likely to be under a Notice of Arrangements or may have been on the Whereabouts Unknown List (more likely with Years K–10).

Western Australian student number requests for 2025

Contact
Data Services (08) 9273 6352
numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au
dataservices@scsa.wa.edu.au

Schools are advised that all current students in Western Australia should have been allocated a Western Australian student number (WASN) and be registered with the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority). This number remains with the student throughout their school life. Schools need to recognise the importance of the WASN to avoid duplication of records and maintain the continuity of student data.

From Monday 21 October 2024, schools will only be able to request WASNs through the Student Information Record System (SIRS) for Kindergarten students commencing in 2025.

If a student other than Kindergarten arrives at your school from another WA school, please check to see if they have a WASN first using the ‘Search for WASN’ process – this is explained in ‘How to Search for WA student numbers in SIRS’ in this circular. For new students commencing in 2025 who do not have a WASN, schools should request a new number beginning in January 2025.

Please note we do not issue numbers for pre-Kindergarten students.

If you cannot locate a number, contact numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au and give details of the student’s legal family name, legal given name, date of birth and academic year. It is also useful to include your school code in any correspondence. If schools request a WASN for a student who already has a number, the correct WASN will be sent to schools.

All secondary schools with a Year 7 intake can send a complete list (spreadsheet) of Year 7 students entering their school in 2025, including the student’s legal family name, legal given name and date of birth and the Authority will look up the WASNs on their behalf.

A reminder that instructions about how to register students can be found in the Data Procedures Manual 2024 (Data Procedures Manual) with links to assist schools using Integris/Reporting to Parents (RTP), Civica Maze, SEQTA, Synergetic, Administration of Schools (AoS) and Excel.

Registration of students in SIRS in 2025

Contact
Data Services (08) 9273 6352
dataservices@scsa.wa.edu.au

Schools and other education providers are reminded that in 2025, National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests will be conducted from Wednesday, 12 March to Monday, 24 March 2025.

To ensure there are no delays in processing student data for NAPLAN, Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA) or Brightpath, please note the following important dates for the upload of Student Registration and Demographic (SRGDG) files to the Student Information Records System (SIRS) in 2025.

Thursday, 13 February 2025

• 2025 registration and demographic information for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 (required for NAPLAN) (via SRGDG file)
• 2025 registration and demographic information for Years 11 and 12 students (required for OLNA) student lists and password generation (via SRGDG file)
• 2025 registration information for all teachers where students attend schools using Brightpath (via THREG file).

After Thursday, 13 February 2025, only new school enrolments for NAPLAN can be registered in SIRS until Thursday, 20 February 2025.

After Thursday, 20 February 2025, it will not be possible for school data to be transferred to the NAPLAN platform in bulk and schools will need to enter students into the NAPLAN platform manually.

Monday, 24 February 2025

• OLNA student login details (Years 11 and 12 students) will be available to schools/providers.

Students not registered in SIRS and participating in OLNA may have a delay in receiving their user login and password details.

Thursday, 3 April 2025

• Registration and demographic information for all remaining students in Kindergarten, Pre‑primary and Years 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 to be uploaded by this date (via SRGDG file).

Please note we do not issue numbers for Pre-Kindergarten students.

The SRGDG should be updated and uploaded regularly throughout the year.  At a minimum, it is recommended that schools upload their student registration file at the beginning of each term. This will ensure any new students to the school are recorded in SIRS as well as update the status of any students who have left the school.

Details of how to register students via the SRGDG file may be found in Section 4 of the Data Procedures Manual (Data Procedures Manual). For all schools that have students participating in the Brightpath Program, please refer to Section 4 of the Primary Student Registration Procedures Manual (Primary Student Registration Procedures Manual) for assistance with uploading the Teacher Registration File (THREG).

If you require Western Australian student numbers (WASN), please send an email to numbers@scsa.wa.ed.au.

Schools are requested to include their school code in any correspondence.