Draft Australian Curriculum documents in the learning areas of English, maths, science and history are now available for online consultation at the Australian Curriculum website: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au until 23 May 2010. You need to register via the website to access the documents.
One public information session is scheduled for NSW, on 25th March, at a venue to be confirmed: www.acara.edu.au/public_information_sessions.html
The Chairman of the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), Prof Barry McGaw, is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at the 2010 National Conference of the Australian Association for Special Education in Darwin in June. AASE is actively monitoring, commenting on and contributing to the development of the national curriculum, and has highlighted ACARA's own guiding principle that
"..... the curriculum should be based on the assumptions that all students can learn and that every student matters. It should set high standards and ensure that they apply to all young Australians while acknowledging the different rates at which students develop" (ACARA, The Shape of the Australian Curriculum, p. 8)
to ensure that it is not compromised.
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St Lucy's School at Wahroonga (in northern Sydney) has issued a flyer about their planned challenge to the Australian Government, providing this information:
The Federal Government has heralded a new era in Australian education, an Education Revolution. They have said nothing about children with disabilities.
Students and parents of St Lucy’s and other special schools,together with friends of children with disabilities, are travelling to Canberra to put this question to the nation’s leaders.
Join us in asking the government:
Are children with disabilities part of the Education Revolution?
Thursday 18 March 2010
11.00am Gather in Federation Mall in front of Old Parliament House, Canberra
12.00pm Walk from Old to New Parliament House
12.30pm Children gather into one group to sing ’We Are Australian’
1.00pm Lunch
1.30pm Fun activities for the children
3.00pm Home
To help us cater for the day, please let us know if you’ll be joining us – call St Lucy’s School on 02 9487 1277 or email karenn@stlucys.org.au
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