Kto10 Circulars

December 2017

General Information, SIRS and Enrolments

Introduction to SIRS 2018

Contact
Lynn Galbraith (08) 9273 6702
lynn.galbraith@scsa.wa.edu.au opens in new window

Rick Browner (08) 9273 6386
rick.browner@scsa.wa.edu.au

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

Limited places are available for secondary school staff, using the Student Information Records System (SIRS), to attend a familiarisation seminar at the School Curriculum and Standards Authority. The seminar is aimed at new and existing secondary school users who have not previously attended a seminar.

Ideally, two staff members should attend: the clerical staff member who may be responsible for maintaining the changes on the school database and the Deputy or Associate Principal who is responsible for timetable changes for students.

The seminar will cover the basic operations and functions of SIRS. This includes data transfer and the generation of reports which enable the information transferred to SIRS to be checked.

The seminar will be approximately two and a half hours duration. Participants will log into SIRS using their own school login and password.

There will be four sessions available prior to school commencing in 2018, which may be preferable for staff in remote and country Western Australia.

Seminar dates and times (2018)

Day/Date

AM

PM

Thursday 18 January 2018

9.00 – 11.30 am

1.00 – 3.30 pm

Wednesday 24 January 2018

9.00 – 11.30 am

1.00 – 3.30 pm

Monday 5 February 2018

9.00 – 11.30 am

1.00 – 3.30 pm

Friday 9 February 2018

9.00 – 11.30 am

1.00 – 3.30 pm

Tuesday 13 February 2018

9.00 – 11.30 am

1.00 – 3.30 pm

Monday 19 February 2018

9.00 – 11.30 am

1.00 – 3.30 pm

More sessions may be provided if these sessions are fully booked.

Registrations can be made online at

https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/events/SIRS_intro.

The seminars will be held in the Mason Bird Building Training Room 1 at 303 Sevenoaks Street, Cannington.  Further details will be supplied to participants once registered.

In previous years, two sessions were held in Bunbury for South West participants, and if we have enough interest for 2018, it may be possible to conduct sessions there again.  Please contact Lynn.Galbraith@scsa.wa.edu.au if you would be interested in attending SIRS familiarisation in Bunbury.

Sessions were also funded in 2017 by schools in Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton and any future sessions in these areas would include a session dedicated to primary schools only.


Registration of students on the Student Information Records System (SIRS) in 2018

Contact
Lynn Galbraith (08) 9273 6702
lynn.galbraith@education.wa.edu.au opens in new window

Rick Browner (08) 9273 6386
rick.browner@education.wa.edu.au opens in new window
dataservices@scsa.wa.edu.au

Schools and other education providers are asked to note the following important dates as the last date for the initial upload of student registration and demographic information to SIRS in 2018.  Please do not leave it until the last date to upload your data.

Thursday 15 February 2018

  • Initial 2018 registration and demographic information for Years 10–12 students (required for Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA) student lists and password generation).
  • Initial 2018 registration and demographic information for ALL Kindergarten–Year 6 students where these students attend schools either administering National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) online or delivering Brightpath.
  • Initial 2018 registration and demographic information for all Year 7 and Year 9 students where these students attend schools administering NAPLAN Online.

Thursday 15 March 2018

  • Registration and demographic information for Years 7–9 students where these students attend schools not administering NAPLAN online is due to be uploaded on Thursday, 15 March 2018.

Thursday 12 April 2018

  • Registration and demographic information for Kindergarten–Year 6 students where these students attend schools not administering NAPLAN Online is due to be uploaded on Thursday, 12 April 2018.

Updates to registration and demographic information should be uploaded into SIRS on a regular basis for the remainder of the year.

Details of how to register students will be provided in the updated Data Procedures Manual 2018, with links to assist schools using Reporting to Parents, MAZE, and Excel.  There is also a separate Student Registration Procedures Manual 2018 – Primary Students found at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/349641/Student-Registration-Procedures-Manual-2017-Primary-Students-web-version.PDF to assist primary schools with creating and uploading their Student Registration and Demographic File (SRGDG).

Schools who have never previously registered their students Western Australian Student Number will be contacted during 2018 with instructions on how to request and allocate the WASN and how to upload an SRGDG to SIRS.

Requesting WA student numbers (WASN)

WASNs for Kindergarten students ONLY can be requested directly through SIRS from the commencement of Term 4 2017.  Please see instructions in the Section 3.3 of the Student Registration Procedures Manual 2018 – Primary Students found in the above link.

Schools, where most students already have a WASN and new students have enrolled who require a number, should check first using the ‘Search for WASN’ process – explained in ‘How to Search for WA Student Numbers in SIRS’ in this Circular.  If you cannot locate a number, then contact numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au and give details of the student’s legal surname, legal first name, date of birth and academic year.

To request WASNs, where you have a large number of students requiring numbers, please send a spreadsheet containing the students’ surname, first name, date of birth and academic year to numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au and a check will be made before returning with allocated numbers and a request made for new numbers where appropriate.

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


Teaching and Assessment

The Arts Pre-primary to Year 10 Teacher Support Materials

Contact
Mandy Hudson (08) 9273 6755
mandy.hudson@scsa.wa.edu.au

Sven Sorenson (08) 9273 6390
sven.sorenson@scsa.wa.edu.au

Teachers of the Arts are advised that teacher support materials are available on the Authority’s website including a selection of sample teaching and learning outlines and sample assessment tasks.

Currently the materials include sample assessment tasks for Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts for Years 7 to 10, with Media Arts available soon. The sample assessment tasks for Pre-primary to Year 6 include a sampling of the five arts across the years, and these will be progressively uploaded during the remainder of Term 4.

A link to the sample assessment tasks is provided below.

https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/assessment/assessment-activities

A selection of sample teaching and learning outlines, ensuring a coverage of all five arts subjects, across Pre-primary to Year 10 will be progressively uploaded during the remainder of Term 4. The sample teaching and learning outlines will be available in Teaching Support Materials. The link is provided below.

https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/teaching-support-materials

Teachers are advised to monitor the recently added resources in the Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline.


Humanities and Social Sciences Pre-primary to Year 10 Key Concepts and Skills Teacher Support Materials

Contact
Mandy Hudson (08) 9273 6755
mandy.hudson@scsa.wa.edu.au

Carolyn Fleischer (08) 9273 6735
carolyn.fleischer@scsa.wa.edu.au

Teachers of Humanities and Social Sciences Pre-primary to Year 10 are advised that teacher support materials are available on the Authority’s website for the explicit teaching of the key concepts and skills, including new ideas for activities.

These materials include:

  • a visual representation which illustrates the Humanities and Social Sciences skills and key concepts which need to be taught explicitly
  • a written exemplification of the Humanities and Social Sciences key concepts which includes a definition and identifies the ways in which students’ understanding of the key concepts can be developed
  • a written exemplification of the Humanities and Social Sciences skills as they apply to Civics and Citizenship, Economics and Business, Geography and History
  • Concepts in practice, a table which includes ideas for activities that teachers can use to integrate and extend students understanding and application of the Humanities and Social Sciences key concepts for all subjects in each year, Pre-primary to Year 10.

A link to the resources is provided below.

https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/curriculum-browser/humanities-and-social-sciences/humanities-overview/key-concepts-and-skills


Languages Achievement Standards Years 7 to 10

Contact
Mandy Hudson (08) 9273 6755
mandy.hudson@scsa.wa.edu.au

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

Schools are advised the Achievement Standards for Years 7 to 10 will be available in the year level syllabuses for each of the languages – Chinese: Second Language, French: Second Language, German: Second Language, Indonesian: Second Language, Italian: Second Language, and Japanese: Second Language in Week 10 Term 4.

The assessment pointers and annotated work samples for Years 7 to 10 Languages will be progressively uploaded during Term 1 2018.