What's New?

Moving forward with SACSA 2009
Information for Site Leaders and Communities.

This is to update site leaders and communities about the Moving forward with SACSA strategy for 2009. It builds on earlier information guidelines about the Strategy distributed through Infoconnect in 2005 and 2006.

New Student Reports in South Australia
From this year, the State Government is introducing new, easy to understand school reports for all students in government schools in South Australia. Click here for more information.

Assessment and Reporting Website

This website will provide information and support resources about assessing, montoring, recording, reporting, reflecting on, and making consistent and reliable judgements about learner achievement.

The Assessment newsletters and information on the New Student Reports in South Australia will also be contained within this website.

Handwriting in the South Australian Curriculum

A new resource to support the teaching of handwriting skills: Handwriting in the South Australian Curriculum and a brochure for parents were distributed to schools in week 1 of Term 1, 2007
The book and the parent brochure can be downloaded from here.

PD Resources (Educators' Ideas)
Professional Development resources targetted for Learning Band Coordinators, PD Providers and Educators. To access these resources, search specifically for "PD Trial" products from within the Educators' Ideas website.

Working with Outcomes
Working with Outcomes presents case studies from sites where educators and learners are working successfully to use the SACSA Key Ideas and Outcomes. Explicit descriptions of unpacking SACSA, planning programs and introducing Key Ideas and Outcomes to students are also provided.

Early Years: Making the Links - QIAS
This package is designed enable educators to identify how the SACSA Framework complements the Quality Improvement and Accreditation System (QIAS) and contribute to the planning for quality social and educational outcomes for children. The package contains examples of how some groups have made the links, but it is primarily designed so that centres can make their own links.

Australian Indigenous Languages
The third and final grouping of the languages Learning Area, the Australian Indigenous Languages, is now available both in print and online. The Key Ideas and Outcomes charts have been updated to include the Australian Indigenous Languages.

ESL Scope & Scales Moderated Evidence
The ESL Scope and Scales Moderated Evidence: Consultation Drafts are available for the Early Years, Primary Years, Middle Years and Senior Years bands. These resources support teacher’s use of the ESL Scope and Scales to monitor the achievement of English as a Second Language (ESL) learners, by providing sets of student evidence, with commentary, representative of each of the ESL Scales of each Band.