Pre-primary to Year 6: Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies curriculum familiarisation meetings

Contact
Humanities and Social Sciences:
Chris Doohan (08) 9273 6766
Christopher.Doohan@scsa.wa.edu.au

Mathematics:
Nadene Coupar (08) 9273 6702
Nadene.Coupar@scsa.wa.edu.au

Science:
Julie Weber (08) 92736381
Julie.Weber@scsa.wa.edu.au

Technologies:
David Donnelly (08) 92736350
David.Donnelly@scsa.wa.edu.au
Jennifer Wheatley (08) 92736335
Jennifer.Wheatley@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) will offer online meetings and face‑to‑face workshops to support schools with the familiarisation of the Western Australian curriculum for Pre-primary to Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies.

These four learning areas of the Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline (the Outline) are in the familiarisation phase of adopting and adapting the Australian Curriculum version 9 to the Western Australian context in 2025. Schools will be required to teach the revised year level curriculum for Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies in 2026.

The purpose of the initial online Webex meetings is to:

• familiarise schools with the support materials on the Authority website
• outline key curriculum changes
• provide guidance to enable schools to become familiar with the revised curriculum
• provide teaching and learning support.

The additional face-to-face workshops will offer an opportunity to explore the above points in more detail and engage in a more practical approach to reviewing school-based documentation.

The Western Australian curriculum, as published in the Outline (https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/) is the mandated curriculum for Western Australian schools and must continue to be implemented in all schools until advised otherwise.

Register at https://scsa.wa.edu.au/events/curriculum-familiarisation-2025-pre-primary-to-year-6

During registration, you will be prompted to complete a brief survey. Your responses will assist the Authority to gather valuable insights and enable our presenters to address common enquiries effectively.

More information is available at k10outline - Revised Western Australian Curriculum Familiarisation through an interactive graphic.

Years 3–10 updated curriculum support materials – English and Health and Physical Education

Contact
Rachel Hoare (08) 9273 6746
Rachel.Hoare@scsa.wa.edu.au

Teachers are advised that the curriculum support materials for Years 3–10 English and Health and Physical Education have been updated to align with the revised Western Australian curriculum adopted and adapted from the Australian Curriculum version 9.

These curriculum support materials include 'Updated' in the title and are available on the School Curriculum and Standards Authority website.

English: https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/wa-curriculum/learning-areas/english/p-10-english-teaching

Health and Physical Education: https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/wa-curriculum/learning-areas/health-and-physical-education/p-10-hpe-teaching

All other aspects of the Western Australian curriculum, as published in the Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline (https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/) remain unchanged as the mandated curriculum for Western Australia and must continue to be implemented in all schools until advised otherwise.

Pre-Primary to Year 10: English and Health and Physical Education curriculum implementation meetings

Contact
English:
Alison Aldersea (Monday to Wednesday) (08) 9273 6733
Alison.Aldersea@scsa.wa.edu.au
Leanne Bondin (08) 9273 6374
Leanne.Bondin@scsa.wa.edu.au

Health and Physical Education:
Dino Manalis (08) 9273 6356
Dino.Manalis@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) is currently offering online meetings to support schools with the implementation of the Western Australian curriculum for Pre-primary to Year 10 English and Health and Physical Education.

English and Health and Physical Education are the first two learning areas of the Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline (the Outline) to be revised as part of adopting and adapting the Australian Curriculum version 9 to the Western Australian context. The revised year level curriculum for English and Health and Physical Education is mandated for teaching in 2025.

The purpose of the meetings is to:

• familiarise schools with changes to the Authority website
• outline key curriculum changes
• provide teaching and learning support
• discuss opportunities for assessment and reporting of student progress.

All other aspects of the Western Australian curriculum, as published in the Outline (https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/), remain unchanged as the mandated curriculum, and must continue to be implemented in all schools until advised otherwise.

Register at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/events/western-australian-curriculum-implementation.

During registration, you will be prompted to complete a brief survey. Your responses will assist the Authority to gather valuable insights and enable our presenters to address common enquiries effectively.

2025 Goldfields Mathematics Conference

Contact
Suzie Harman (08) 9273 6768
Suzie.Harman@scsa.wa.edu.au

The Western Australian Curriculum: Mathematics will be one of the featured presentations at the regional Mathematics conference to be hosted by the Mathematics Association of Western Australia (MAWA) in June 2025.

MAWA will host a regional mathematics conference in Kalgoorlie on Saturday, 21 June 2025. Designed for early childhood, primary and secondary teachers, the conference will feature presentations from MAWA, the School Curriculum and Standards Authority and the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, as well as MAWA partners. A variety of topics will be explored, including the Western Australian Curriculum: Mathematics, mathematics content and pedagogical approaches, and the integration of First Nations knowledge, history, and culture into mathematics.

Registration and further information can be located on the MAWA website at
https://mawainc.org.au/2025-goldfields-maths-conference.

Uploading 2025 student registrations to SIRS

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

Schools and other education providers are reminded that student registrations should be uploaded regularly throughout the year to the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) Student Information Records System (SIRS).

Registration of students for Term 1

The Authority would like to thank schools and other education providers for meeting the deadlines for uploading their student registrations. Your efforts contributed to the timely transfer of data for the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) and ensured students’ details were ready for the start of the Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA) Term 1 window.

Regular updates to student registration information

Now that schools have uploaded their initial registrations for Term 1, they are strongly advised to update and upload a current student registration (SRGDG) file to SIRS on a regular basis.

At a minimum, we recommend that schools upload their student registration file at the beginning of each term. This will ensure that all new students are recorded in SIRS and the status of students who have left the school is updated accordingly.

To encourage schools to continue the good practice of uploading student registrations, a reminder will be sent to all schools that have not uploaded a current SRGDG file by the end of Week 3 of Terms 2, 3 and 4.

Equitable Access to Assessment Policy and Guidelines (K–6)

Special Provisions
specialprovs@scsa.wa.edu.au

NAPLAN helpdesk
naplan@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) has reviewed and published an updated Equitable Access to Assessment Policy and Guidelines (the EAA policy) to assist schools in supporting individual students who may need assessment adjustments.

The minor revisions to the EAA policy have been made to improve clarity for schools and parents, chiefly in relation to adjustments available for the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assessment. The EAA policy now directs users to the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’s (ACARA’s) NAPLAN national protocols for test administration rather than reproducing these within the Authority’s EAA policy. The EAA policy is available on the Authority website at https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/resources/equitable-access-assessment-policy.

The updates to the EAA policy will have had no impact on the approval of equitable adjustments for the recently completed NAPLAN testing.

Review of the Pre-primary to Year 10: Teaching, Assessing and Reporting Policy and Policy Standards

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

The Board of the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) is currently conducting a review of the Pre-primary to Year 10: Teaching, Assessing and Reporting Policy and Policy Standards (Policy and Standards), which can be found on the Authority website at https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/policy/teaching-assessing-and-reporting-policy.

The Policy applies to all Western Australian and approved offshore international schools offering schooling in Pre-primary to Year 10 and is supported by the Policy Standards for Pre-primary to Year 10: Teaching, Assessing and Reporting.

Principals, school leaders and teachers are invited to provide feedback via a survey. The survey is seeking input on the current Policy and Standards to inform further refinements and improvement.

The Policy and Standards communicate the mandatory requirements for:

• teaching the Western Australian curriculum
• assessing and reporting student achievement.

The Policy and Standards were originally published in 2016. Since then, minor revisions have been made on two occasions. It is, therefore, timely for a more extensive review of the documents to ensure that the information is clear and the requirements are well understood. The current Policy and Standards, along with any revisions, must align with:

• the vision set out in the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration (2019)
• relevant legislative requirements outlined within the School Curriculum and Standards Authority Act 1997, the Australian Education Act 2013 and the Australian Education Regulation 2013
• the approved national learning framework Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF).

Your participation in the survey would be appreciated. The link to the survey can be found at https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8201141/Pre-primary-to-Year-10-Reporting-Policy-and-Standards-Review and will be available until Friday, 9 May 2025.

If you have any queries regarding the survey, please contact Maureen Lorimer, Principal Consultant on 9273 6397 (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) or email Maureen.Lorimer@scsa.wa.edu.au.