Ngunnawal Primary School eNewsletter

A Message from the Principal

Koori Preschool Funding Launch

Our wonderful students and staff in Koori Preschool hosted the Education Minister, Yvette Berry and a range of media on Monday of last week to launch the expansion of the Koori Pre program in the ACT. For Ngunnawal, this means we will be implementing a beginning and end of week preschool program for 3 and 4 year old Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. We are very proud of our students who spoke confidently to the reporters.

School Improvement Works

This semester our school is undertaking a number of improvment works. These include:

grinding of raised concrete in the courtyard
roof repairs to reduce leaks and moisture build up
replacing the rocks in front of the admin building with turf
upgrading all of our evacuation maps and safety equipment located in each of our buildings

We are most excited about a significant project to upgrade West Park. Planning is under way for an outdoor learning/play area. We can't wait to share these plans with you. Below are some of the ideas we have submitted to shape the design.

2023 School Satisfaction & Climate Survey

Each year, the Directorate surveys all parents and carers, school staff and students in Years 4 to 12 about their experience of public education. The 2023 School Satisfaction & Climate Survey will be available online from 18 August to 8 September. The survey results will help us to continue to make quality informed decisions about how to improve our school. No personal identifying information will be provided to any school or college.

For each child in their family who attends an ACT public school, parents and carers will receive:

A letter about the student survey outlining the reasons for collection and privacy provision for the data; and
An email about the parent survey, including a unique link to access the survey. Genuine survey invitation emails will have the title "The 2023 School Satisfaction & Climate Survey is now open!" and will be sent from EDU Surveys & Evaluation with 'from' address EDU@qualtrics-survey.com.

If you do not receive the survey invitation, please check your Junk email folder; if it is not there, please contact your school. If you do not have an email listed with the school, please contact the front office onn 61421500.

The Parents and Carers Survey will be available online in other languages: Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Urdu, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Spanish, Telugu, French and Italian. Respondents can select their preferred language when they start the survey. A shortened paper-version of the Parents and Carers Survey is also available in the following 5 languages: Dari, Dinka, Farsi, Karen and Mon. These surveys are available at the Front Office.

For the results to reflect the opinions of our whole school community, we need as many parents and carers, staff and students as possible to complete the survey. Your feedback is important, and we hope you will take part.

For more information, visit: https://www.education.act.gov.au/public-school-life/school-satisfaction-and-climate-survey