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School’s in Focus

AMPLIFY: Designing Bright Futures

Penrhos College Junior School

Amplify is a collaborative project between AISWA and the Innovation Unit Australia. It aims to increase the proportion of
students who are deeply engaged in their learning, through the development of teaching, learning and assessment
practices that promote student engagement. A small number of AISWA schools participated in Amplify throughout
2016/7, and recorded their journey towards making learning deeper, more relevant and prevalent for young people, in
the form of a case study.
One participating school, was Penrhos College Junior School. The school sought to embed the use of ‘Information
fluency’ across Years P-6 and their specific challenge was to use the common language of information fluency – ask,
acquire, apply and assess – to promote enquiry based learning across the curriculum.
To read more about their journey, click here

Building Cultural Competence in Early Childhood Educators

In partnership with Early Childhood Australia (ECA) please join us for an afternoon of personal and professional learning
that will showcase the ongoing projects by six AISWA schools, from a range of diverse Early Learning settings community
contexts, building capacity around the EYLF and curriculum links such as the 'Intercultural and Ethical Understanding'
General Capability and the Aboriginal and/or Asia Cross Curriculum Priority. These wonderful Early Childhood Educators
will share their personal stories of building their own cultural awareness and how this is transforming the way they bring
these new insights into their learning environments.

When: Fri 26 Oct 12.00 - 3.30pm
Where: Kings Park Education Centre
Lunch and resources provided

Registrations now open

AISWA and ECA Members: FREE*
Non-Members: $10
*AISWA and Non-members please register via the provided above. ECA members please contact Janelle Dickinson
jdickinson@ais.wa.edu.au to register your attendance

Attention Arts Teachers
Expressions of Interest

This is a call for generalist Primary teachers who are struggling to find the time to meaningfully teach the Arts, or who are
interested in broadening their capacity in the Arts. If you are interested in being involved in a project on Arts Integration,
contact Karen LeRaye by email kleraye@ais.wa.edu.au for further details.

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