From the Deputy Principals
NAIDOC Week at Windsor SS
This week, Windsor SS celebrates NAIDOC Week. National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. As NAIDOC Week falls in the school holidays, Windsor SS has celebrated this week.
During the week, classes have been working on their classroom’s ‘Deadly Door’, created for the this year’s theme of The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy. This theme is particularly pertinent in our primary school setting. Over the coming days, feel free to have a walk around and see some of the many different displays across the school.
Our annual NAIDOC Week parade was a beautiful way to start the week of celebrations. Junior Choir did a wonderful medley performance and a special thank you to Prep A for opening with their own Acknowledgement of Country, in both English and Auslan.
This special parade was also a wonderful opportunity to reveal ‘The Windsor Way’ artwork with our whole school together.
NCCD – Nationally Consistent Collection of Data
Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).
Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:
- year of schooling
- category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
- level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.
This information assists schools to:
- formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
- consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
- develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.
The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.
The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).
Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).
If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.
