During the holidays a group of our musicians travelled to China to take part in Tutti Festiva, working in masterclasses and performing in festival honour groups with students from Australian and Chinese schools. As well as creating lifelong memories (such as performing on the Great Wall of China and listening to the Beijing Opera) the group was able to contribute to a local charity funding the education for children of migrant workers.
Work by Portia Smulders, Year 12, has been selected to be featured in the META 2019 Art and Design Exhibition! Featuring work from Year 11 and 12 students throughout WA, the Exhibition kicks off at North Metropolitan TAFE today and runs until August 24. Be sure to check it out!
Dear parents, guardians and carers
Re: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)
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:
This information assists schools to:
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 your Learning Enrichment Department at St Stephen’s School, Duncraig.
Primary – Mrs Chris Roddy-Clark
Learning Enrichment Coordinator (Pre-K – 6)
Phone: 9243 2440
Secondary – Mrs Toni Mills
Learning Enrichment Curriculum Leader – Secondary
Phone: 9243 2137
Over the past week our Year 9s have experienced the best of the east coast on the 2019 HASS Tour! Their travels through Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney have included a visit to Parliament House, the Australian War Memorial, the MCG and the Royal Australian Mint. Between their busy schedule, they also managed to fit in a trip to the Snowy Mountains were some students learnt to ski for the first time!
This week we are excited to welcome international students from China!
Students are already immersed in Primary and Secondary classrooms across Duncraig.
We hope they enjoy their time as St Stephen’s students over the next few weeks.
After six of our senior students were featured in the 2019 St George’s Art Exhibition, we now have an award winner in our midst!
Will Boutle (Year 11) was highly commended for his piece ‘Man and Machine’ at the Exhibition’s Awards Night on Thursday.
Well done, Will!
Photo: David Broadway
During the holidays a group of our musicians travelled to China to rehearse and perform in “Tutti Festiva”. http://www.tuttibeijing.com/ They spent hours honing their own music skills in masterclasses as well as performing in festival honour groups with students from other Australian and Chinese schools. The festival was held at Kaiwen Academy – a new K-12 school built to educate 2000 students…as well as amazing Performing Arts facilities it also has an ice hockey rink… http://cy.kaiwenacademy.cn/en/
Educationally, this tour was an incredible opportunity for our musicians to reach the next level with their musicianship. The Tutti faculty included professional musicians working at elite levels as professors, conductors, composers and performers in Northern American, Chinese and Australian universities.
As well as creating lifelong memories such as performing on “The Great Wall of China” and listening to Beijing Opera and other musical performances from the faculty, our students, staff and school contributed to “The Dandelion Project”. This charity funds the education costs (including music) for the children of migrant workers as they are ineligible to access an education in Chinese schools. Overall, we were part of a $13500 donation!
Andre and I loved taking these wonderful musicians away to China. They were superb ambassadors for St Stephen’s School. We are very proud of what they achieved and we are excited to see how their experiences will feed back into the Music program. We would also like to acknowledge the wonderful work of Don Candy, who prepared the Classical guitars so well for the tour.
Please enjoy these photos:)
