Planning and Assessing with the Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines – Regional and Metropolitan Workshops

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

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority invites school leaders and early childhood teachers to participate in a workshop to support their planning and assessment with the Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines (the Guidelines). Teachers will be supported to develop planning documents that reflect and complement their specific context. The full day session will also explore monitoring and assessment practices. School leaders are encouraged to attend with teachers from their school.

The full day session will include:

• an overview of the Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines, including the Vision, Principles and Practices of the Early Years Learning Framework (the EYLF)
• a reflection on your context and practice using the Guidelines
• collaboration and discussion with colleagues
• time to develop your own documents for planning your program
• time to develop your own documents for planning your learning environment
• review of the EYLF Principle: Assessment and evaluation for learning, development and wellbeing

Participants should bring their printed or digital copy of the Guidelines and a device to take photos (such as your phone or iPad).

The workshop is not compulsory and is free to attend.

Please note: This event is not catered. Participants will need to bring their own water bottle, morning tea and lunch.

The dates, locations and registration link for these face-to-face workshops are located at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/events/planning-with-the-kindergarten-curriculum-guidelines

Kindergarten to Year 2 support materials

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

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

The materials include a preliminary series of seven vignettes illustrating best practice in early childhood and a printable Early Years Quick Reference Guide.

Early Years Quick Reference Guide

The Authority has produced an Early Years Quick Reference Guide to support the mandated implementation of the EYLF from Kindergarten to Year 2. The Quick Reference Guide is printable as a double-sided A3 (or A4) document with the Learning Outcomes from the Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines (the Guidelines) summarised on one side. The reverse side provides a quick reference to the mandated elements of the EYLF that apply across the early years from Kindergarten to Year 2, including the Vision, Principles and Practices. The document is available on the Authority website at: 
https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/kindergarten-curriculum-guidelines.

Early Childhood Videos

An initial series of seven videos has been produced to support teaching and learning practices across the early years phase of schooling from Kindergarten to Year 2 that reflect the expectations in the Authority’s Early Years of Schooling Policy and the Kindergarten and Pre-primary Statement https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/principles/guiding-principles/phases-of-schooling.

The videos exemplify the Vision, Principles and Practices of the EYLF and the Learning Outcomes from the Guidelines.

Incorporating multi-age groups, multicultural perspectives and the dialogue of children, teachers and school leaders, each video has an organic, active and immersive quality that captures the deep and expansive knowledge of our early childhood professionals. They demonstrate passion, articulate the reasons behind decision-making in early childhood and authentically represent ‘best practice’. The videos were not scripted prior to filming and demonstrate the deep understanding of the development of children in this phase of schooling, the national frameworks and the Guidelines.

The initial seven videos present an Overview of Early Childhood, illustrate teaching and learning linked to the five Learning Outcomes and an Early Years K–2 initiative uniting the WA Curriculum, the Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines and the EYLF.

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

Notification of New Languages Subject – Pre-primary to Year 10 Punjabi: Second Language

Contact
Adriana Douglas (08) 9273 6784
Adriana.Douglas@scsa.wa.edu.au

Harpreet Kaur (08) 9442 9434
Harpreet.Kaur@scsa.wa.edu.au

School Leaders, Heads of Learning Area – Languages, and Teachers of Languages are advised that a new subject syllabus for Pre-primary to Year 10, Punjabi: Second Language is available on the Punjabi page of the Authority website at
https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/curriculum-browser/languages/punjabi-second-language.

The syllabus is for teaching from 2024. Supporting materials will be made available progressively.

Uploading data files to SIRS

Contact
Buddhini Daluwatta (08) 9273 6315
dataservices@scsa.wa.edu.au

Schools and other education providers are reminded to upload their Student Registration and Demographic file (SRGDG) and Teacher Registration file (THREG) for Brightpath schools.

All students are required to have a Western Australian student number (WASN) and be registered in the School Curriculum and Standards Authority’s Student Information Records System (SIRS).

To ensure our data is current, updates to registration and demographic information should be uploaded into SIRS on a regular basis for the remainder of the year.

At minimum, it is recommended that schools update and upload their student registration file (SRGDG) at the beginning of each term to record any student/s who may transfer from and/or to a school.

If you require new numbers, please send a request to numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au. Please include the student’s family name, given name, date of birth and academic year the student is being registered in at the school.

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

Details about how to register students are provided in the Data Procedures Manual with links to assist schools using various school databases.

There is also a separate Student Registration Procedures Manual to assist schools with creating and uploading their Student Registration and Demographic file (SRGDG) and Teacher Registration file (THREG) for schools participating in Brightpath.

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

WACE Language course applications – Year 11 or 12 2025

Contact
Adriana Douglas (08) 9273 6784
Adriana.Douglas@scsa.wa.edu.au

Nadia Civa (08) 9273 6355
Nadia.Civa@scsa.wa.edu.au

Schools are advised that the School Curriculum and Standards Authority’s (the Authority) Application for permission to enrol in a WACE language course (WACE Language Application) for 2025is available from Monday, 24 June 2024 via the student portal (https://studentportal.scsa.wa.edu.au/).

The purpose of the WACE Language Application process is to ensure that students with a linguistic advantage in a language are not assessed against students who do not have the same advantage.

When students have submitted the online applications in the student portal, schools complete the three school stages in the SRMS portal (https://srms.scsa.wa.edu.au/). Once the three school stages have been completed, the Authority reviews the applications and determines students’ WACE language course enrolment status in the SRMS portal. Students can see their WACE language course enrolment status in the student portal and school users can monitor the progress of applications in the SRMS portal.

All Year 10 students, and Year 9 gifted and talented accelerated language students currently studying a language, and intending to enrol in Year 11, complete a WACE Language application for study in one or more of the following Languages courses:

• Chinese
• Indonesian
• Punjabi
• French
• Italian
• Tamil
• German
• Japanese
• Hindi
• Korean

Schools are advised that the 2024 dates for submission of an Application for permission to enrol in a WACE language course are:

• Wednesday, 24 July 2024 or earlier if students start the 2025 school year in Term 4, 2024
• Friday, 23 August 2024 or earlier if students start the 2025 school year in Term 1, 2025.

It is advised that schools use the School guide for online applications for WACE language courses or inform students to access the Student guide for online applications for WACE language courses (both guides are available on the course page on the Authority website and have been updated) to assist when completing the applications, or email languagesenrolment@scsa.wa.edu.au.