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A
Anaphylaxis
- Anaphylaxis Procedures for Schools Appendix 1 – (allergy information proforma)
- Anaphylaxis Procedures for Schools Appendix 2 – (parent/carer information)
- Anaphylaxis Procedures for Schools Appendix 3 – (parent/carer authorisation to contact doctor)
Anti-bullying
- Four translated fact sheets for parents/carers on anti-bullying can be accessed via the Bullying No Way! website
- Anti-bullying – parents and carers tips
Anti-racism
Assessment
Attendance
Compulsory schooling
- Compulsory School Attendance – Information for parents
- New school leaving age – Information for parents and secondary school students
Absentee notes and notices
- Completing Absentee Notes and Notices – Information for parents and carers
- Absentee note 1 – One day absence
- Absentee note 2 – More than one day absence
- Absentee note 3 – Part day absence
- Absentee notice 1
- Absentee notice 2
Compulsory schooling letters – Principal to parents/carers
- Application for home school liaison support – Letter 1
- Successful outcome of attendance improvement plan – Letter 8
- Non-attendance interview program (NIPS) – Letter 10
- Consent to discuss student's health care needs with medical professional – Letter 13
Compulsory schooling letters – Educational services team to parents/carers
- HSLO case allocation and development of attendance improvement plan – Letter 3
- Failure to meet to develop an attendance improvement plan – Letter 4
- Further action – Letter 5
- Enrolment requirements – Letter 6
- Action for failure to enrol – Letter 7
- Reactivation of case which had been satisfactory – Letter 9
- Secretary's compulsory schooling conference – Letter 11
- Court ordered compulsory schooling conference – Letter 12
B
Behaviour
Best Start Kindergarten Assessment
- Best Start – Information for parents
- Best Start literacy – A parent's guide
- Best Start numeracy – A parent's guide
C
Child protection
- Child protection resources can be accessed via the NSW Government Family & Community Services website and are available in translation
Community harmony
- School Communities Working Together – Fact sheet for parents and carers
- Recent community events – (letter to parents/carers)
D
Diabetes
E
Enrolment application forms
- Application to enrol in a NSW Government school
- Application to enrol in a NSW Government preschool
- Moving into Year 7 in a NSW Government school
Procedures for secondary school enrolment – Letters to parents/carers
- Placement in Year 7 – Letter 1
- Placement in Year 7 – Letter 1A
- Notification of acceptance into Year 7 – Letter 2
- Notification of an unsuccessful non-local placement (on waiting list) – Letter 3a
- Notification of an unsuccessful non-local placement (no waiting list) – Letter 3b
- Notification of receipt of application to enrol – Letter 4
- Confirmation of enrolment in Year 7 – Letter 5
Excursions
- Excursion note Section A
- Excursion consent form Section A
- Excursion note Section B
- Medical information form
H
Head lice
- Parental advice concerning head lice
- Head lice treatment options – Information for parents and carers
- Letter to parents/carers concerning participation in Nitbusters Day
- Consent form for participation in Nitbusters Day
- Nitbusters Day follow up letter to parents/carers
Health
- Anaphylaxis
- Diabetes
- Head lice
- Medication
- Meningococcal
- Mental health
- School counsellor
- Vaccination
- Health Translations website provides translations on various topics through a keyword search. The website is supported by the Victorian Government and is managed and maintained by the Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health
- Healthy kids website which is an initiative of the NSW Ministry of Health, provides a number of key health message fact sheets for parents/carers available in translation
- Multicultural Health Communication Service website run by the NSW Government Health provides translations on various topics through a keyword search
- Raising children website which is supported by the Australian Government Department of Social Services provides various health and parenting information available in translation
- The Sydney children's Hospitals Network website which is part of the NSW Government provides translations on various health topics listed by language
High School Transition
- Moving into Year 7 in a NSW Government school – see Enrolment
- Why choose a public high school? – Information for parents and carers
- From primary to high school: The next big step – Understanding your child's schoolwork
- From primary to high school: The next big step – How parents can help
Higher School Certificate
- The Common Grade Scale for Preliminary courses
- NSW Educational Standards Authority (NESA) website provides translations of Advice to parents – HSC assessment and submitted works
- NSW Educational Standards Authority (NESA) website provides translations of HSC Minimum Standard fact sheet and flyer for parents.
- VET information – see Vocational education
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Invitations
M
Medication (prescribed) – letters to parents/carers
- Request a meeting to discuss child's health condition
- Confirm arrangements for administration of prescribed medication
- Request completion of the form for support at school of a student's health condition
Meningococcal
- Meningococcal information and fact sheets can be accessed via the Health Translations website which provides translations on various topics through a keyword search
Mental health
- Mental health information brochures on various topics can be accessed via the Mental Health in Multicultural Australia website and are available in translation
N
National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)
- NAPLAN 2017 test dates – (Information for parents/carers)
- NAPLAN – Information for parents and carers
- NAPLAN parent/carer consent for exemption or withdrawal
Numeracy
P
Parents count too – Numeracy
- Helping your child with counting
- Helping your child with arithmetic
- Helping your child with shapes and objects
- Helping your child with measuring length and area
- Helping your child with measuring volume and mass
- Helping your child with measuring temperature and time
- Helping your child with mental calculations
- Helping your child with patterns and algebra
- Helping your child with representing and interpreting graphs and tables
Payments to schools
- Parent online payments – Information for parents and carers
- Parent online payments – newsletter text (for use by staff)
Permission to publish
Preschool
- The Australian Government Department of Education and Training website provides translations on Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Framework for Australia – Information for families
- Welcome to preschool – A parents guide
R
Reading
- Reading with your child at home – (information for parents/carers)
Reading recovery
Reporting
Road safety information
- Drive and park safely near schools – (information for parents/carers)
- Ride a bicycle safely – (information for parents/carers)
- Safe bus travel – (information for parents/carers)
- Walk safely – (information for parents/carers)
S
School counsellor
- School counselling service – Information for parents and carers
- School Counsellor student assessment – (letter to parents/carers)
Selective high schools and opportunity classes
- Opportunity classes and selective high schools fact sheet – Information for parents/carers and students
- Opportunity class placement test – Information for parents/carers and students
- Selective high school placement test – Information for parents/carers and students
Starting school
- Getting ready for school – Disability – (guide for parents/carers)
- Time to start school – (a family guide)
Sun safety
Suspension and expulsion
Parent/carer information
- Suspension and expulsion – (information brochure)
- Appeal against a decision to suspend or expel a student from a NSW Government school – (proforma)
Letters to parents/carers
- Short suspension – Letter 1
- Long suspension – Letter 2
- Formal warning of unsatisfactory participation in learning by a student over 17 – Letter 3
- Expulsion from a particular school for misbehaviour – Initial advice – Letter 4
- Expulsion for unsatisfactory participation of a student over 17 – Initial advice – Letter 5
- Expulsion from a particular school for misbehaviour – Decision – Letter 6
- Expulsion from a particular school for unsatisfactory participation – Decision – Letter 7
Swimming
- Swimming information – see Water safety
T
Telephone interpreter service
Temporary residents program
- The temporary residents program application form for an Authority to enrol and the Application for fee exemption are available in translation and can be accessed via the NSW Department of Education DE International website
V
Vaccinations
- Flu vaccine information and fact sheets can be accessed via the Australian Government Department of Health website and is available in translation
- School vaccination program information can be accessed via the NSW Government Health website and is available in translation
Vocational education
- Workplace learning information for parents and carers regarding Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses can be accessed via the NSW Department of Education Senior Pathways & VET programs for Secondary Students website and is available in translation
w
Warning letters
- Non-completion of a Higher School Certificate (HSC) Course
- Non-completion of a Preliminary Course
- Non-completion of a Stage 5 (Years 9-10) Course
Water safety
- Beach Safety information can be accessed via the Waverley Council website and is available in translation
- School swimming and water safety program – Message to parents/carers
- School swimming and water safety program – Consent form
- Water safety information – See Health Translations