THE WAY (Term 2 Week 5 - 17 May 2021)
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St Brigid's Primary and St Finbarr's Primary Celebrate 200 Years in National Anthem Video
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Celebrating 200 Years of Catholic Education - Creative and Visual Arts
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Digital Technologies Newsletter
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eSports: Congratulations St Joseph’s College, Banora Point
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Teacher Accreditation - Applying for Leave
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NCCD Information
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NSW Curriculum Review Advice Required
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Australian Curriculum Review
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Australian Olympic Change-Maker nominations are open
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Refugee week event for high schools
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National Career Institute Round Two Partnership Grants
St Brigid's Primary and St Finbarr's Primary Celebrate 200 Years in National Anthem Video
To celebrate 200 Years of Catholic Education in Australia, ministry musician Andrew Chinn invited schools to participate in an Australian National Anthem video. St Brigid's Primary School, Kyogle and St Finbarr's Primary School, Byron Bay were selected to participate.
St Brigid's Primary students were photographed with the Big Kyogle Turkey and St Finbarr's Primary students were photographed at Australia's most easterly point, the Byron Bay lighthouse. Click on the link below to watch the video.
For more information regarding this, please refer to the attached.
Each week the Digital Technologies Team produces a Digital Learning Newsletter to support educators and leaders in our diocese to stay informed around topics and updates related to digital technologies and STEM.
Showcasing examples from educators in our diocese and globally, the newsletter aims to inspire you with ideas. The newsletter also documents professional learning opportunities in these areas and details how you can book times with a Digital Technology Coach who will support you and help you to find solutions to the challenges you face in the implementation of digital technologies in your learning and teaching sequences.
While enjoying the day, students engaged in welfare checks, learnings about cyberbullying, healthy gaming habits, discussions on digital wellbeing, gaming addiction, kids helpline and gaming etiquette.
Well done to St Joseph’s College, Banora Point. Their teams took first place in the following:
- Individual Champion
- School
- School - Division Champion
Syllabus implementation – indicative time
The public ‘Have your say’ period for the K-2 English and Mathematics syllabuses concluded on 30 April. After a further consultation period in July, the final syllabuses are planned for release in early Term 4. CSNSW is now seeking feedback from Catholic School Agencies and schools regarding Syllabus implementation - indicative time.
At present, the indicative time for K–6 is 25–35% for English, and 20% for Mathematics.
Consistent with Recommendation 4.1 of the NSW Curriculum Review that English and Mathematics should be top priorities in the early years, NESA is considering whether:
- the current indicative time allocation should be increased,
- the same time should be indicated for English and Mathematics, and
- more time should be allocated for these subjects in K–2 than 3–6.
The current advice on indicative timing can be found here. CSNSW is seeking your feedback on this issue. Feedback can be provided via the following email address: joanne.hack@csnsw.catholic.edu.au
The overall aim is to improve the F–10 Australian Curriculum by refining, realigning and decluttering the content of the curriculum within its existing structure. While the overall structure of the curriculum has not changed, there are changes to the content and elaborations and the curriculum support resources. The proposed revisions have resulted in an overall 20% reduction in content descriptions.
Given the number of reviews and requests for staff to be involved in both reviews, the Catholic Schools Office will prepare the system review to ACARA and draw on our combined expertise to complete this. Limited school input will be sought as it is important for school staff to have a say in the NESA review.
Staff who wish to review the ACARA curriculum can do so directly from the ACARA site.
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The Australian Olympic Change-Maker (OCM) program recognises and rewards students who are living the Olympic spirit through leadership and powering positive change in their communities.
Nominations are open to all Australian secondary schools and we invite your school to nominate up to two students per school from years 10-12 who are creating positive change.
You are invited to distribute this information throughout your networks to create awareness of this fantastic opportunity.
Please also see attached the OCM flyer to provide your networks with additional information.
The UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion and the Refugee Advice & Casework Service are presenting a special Refugee Week event for NSW high school students.
Date: Monday 21 June
Time: 1:00pm – 1:45pm
Accessibility: This event will be live captioned
Facilitated by Verity Firth, Executive Director of Social Justice, University of Technology Sydney, the panel includes:
- Hani Abdile, journalism student, writer and poet, was forced to leave her home country of Somalia and come to Australia seeking protection in 2014.
- Bakhit David, arrived in Australia from Sudan when he was 17. He has been a volunteer interpreter at Mercy House of Welcome and volunteered at youth organisation, Rotaract Australia. He is currently studying Community Services at TAFE.
- Genevieve Howe, joined RACS legal team after working in Nauru. She has a strong background in volunteering with legal NGOs in Australia and overseas.
- Dorothy Hoddinott AO was principal of Holroyd High School where 60% of all students were of refugee background.
The theme of this years’ Refugee Week is Unity Moving Forward. The panel will discuss:
- The process for seeking safety in Australia
- What it’s like to be seeking asylum in Australia
- The challenges of living here on a Temporary Visa
- The challenges for refugee children and young people
- How young people can get involved in these social justice issues
Further information:
- Suitable for years 7-12
- Please SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS to the panel prior to the event at fundraising@racs.org.au
Resources and teaching materials:
- https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/classroom-resources-for-teachers/
- Further details please contact fundraising@racs.org.au
National Career Institute Partnership Grants to improve career advice applications are now open for Round Two of the National Career Institute’s Partnership Grants program, with up to $525,000 available for projects that will improve career outcomes for adults and school students.
The National Careers Institute Partnership Grants program (the program) was announced as part of the 2019-20 Federal Budget measure, ‘Delivering Skills for Today and Tomorrow’.
Round 2 Partnership Grants projects will be delivered through collaborative partnerships between industry or business organisations and schools or community organisations.
This funding round will support locally based, face-to-face (including virtual face-to-face) career guidance projects, activities and services and is aimed at supporting:
- adults looking to re-enter the workforce or change careers, or people developing their career
- primary school students and their influencers (such as parents, carers and peers)
- students in years 7 to 10 and their influencers (such as parents, carers and peers)
Investigation into opportunities to support the provision of careers in the Diocese is currently being assessed.
Applications close 23 June 2021.
For further information and to apply visit: www.business.gov.au/NCIP