NSWPPA Awards | Vice President Jude Hayman (repeat)

Every year we have the honour to recognise the work of our colleagues through the nomination and selection of recipients of the following awards which are presented to the successful recipients at the NSWPPA State Conference.

Awards are

LIFE MEMBERSHIP or FELLOWSHIP
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
PROFESSIONAL AWARD
ABORIGINAL EDUCATION AWARD
SOCIAL JUSTICE / EQUITY AWARD

Please see the attached document for nomination criteria and submission information

Behaviour Strategy | Vice President Trish Peters

As we burtle towards the last few days of Term 2, you would be right in thinking that the Behaviour Strategy is not going to land on Day 1 of Term 3. While we have not been given any official dates, we are likely to see a release in Term 3 with professional learning and training in 2021 for implementation in 2022. Consultation is ongoing and many recommendations the PPA executive have put forward have been considered already.

At the Week 7 State Council meeting, a background to the Student Behaviour Strategy was presented to delegates to share with local PPCs. A valuable suggestion regarding the provision of support to staff after behaviour incidents of violence was put forward from the Ryde PPC last week and is already being explored by the strategy team. The PPA voice is loud and clear over the need for support for students with behaviours of concern AND support for those impacted by the behaviour.
In-school suspension was well-deliberated at last week’s executive meeting and our position is that a risk assessment should determine the feasibility of in-school suspension for each school and that, if feasible, schools then use an H & S developed ISS risk management template to contextualise procedures for their site and that is what is included in the school’s behaviour management and support template. In practice, a school ‘s behaviour plan would include either that a risk assessment identified that it wasn’t feasible on that school site, or that it was feasible and ISS would be implemented at X school according to the risk management plan.

Please contact Helen Craigie, Chair Student Wellbeing Reference Group or Trish Peters, SWRG Exec Liaison with further feedback or suggestions.

New K-6 Scope and Sequences | Vice President Norma Petrocco

New sample K-6 scope and sequences and advice have been published in each KLA for a variety of contexts. To complement the scope and sequences and enhance their use, curriculum advice is available for schools on:

• how to develop scope and sequences
• elements of a scope and sequence
• important syllabus considerations for each KLA
• evaluating a scope and sequence

Each set of scope and sequences incorporate NESA and DoE requirements.

New K-12 Vocabulary Teaching Resource | Vice President Norma Petrocco

The resource 'Using context to infer the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary' supports teachers to explicitly teach the use of context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. The resource contains information about different types of context clues and gives examples of a think aloud as an explicit teaching strategy for modelling how skilled readers use context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.

This resource can be accessed on the Learning Resource Hub

Additional resources such as a 'Guide or selecting vocabulary for explicit instruction' and a 'Guide for planning and implementing explicit instruction' can also be found in the Hub.

SRE & SEE Follow Up Survey | Vice President Michael Trist

In an earlier survey, members indicated strong support for the NSWPPA to investigate changes to the implementation of Special Religious Education (SRE) and Special Education in Ethics (SEE) in their schools. Please assist this process via a brief follow up survey:

Information for all PPC Treasurers | Treasurer Gregory Grinham

A reminder that

• your 2nd, April, May, June, BAS is due to me, via forms, no later than 5 July.
• Audit of your PPC finance should be scheduled for the end of August, early September, and then sent to me by 30 September.

Please keep Tuesday 3 August, 2:00PM, free for a 30minute zoom meeting to discuss all things in the treasurer’s world.

Gregory Grinham