• NDIS application process
• NDIS review process
• Accessing support to apply for NDIS
• How NDIS can support your child access the workforce
• Programs they offer
• Answer your questions

If this is something that interests you, you can book a 10 minute meeting with Jules by clicking on NDIS Information Sessions. It will say “Rhiannon Kemp” - Rhiannon will be able to see these bookings on Daymap so she can organise them with Jules.

For those of you wishing to book an interview with me, you will need to book under Emily Prenzler. This is because we have Jules Csanki from NDIS using my name to book in with families.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact studentservices@ripleyvalleyssc.eq.edu.au

Reading Club commencing soon.  Reading Club is a select group of students who will be working on improving their reading skills, supported by the school’s Speech Pathologist and a Teacher Aide.  The group will focus on building the foundation skills needed to develop fluent and accurate reading, as well as practicing using technology to help reduce any barriers that a reading difficulty may present.   

Corrective Maths:

A select group of students will participate in a program called SRA Corrective Mathematics.  The purpose of the program is to provide intensive small-group instruction in order to develop the skills, strategies, automaticity, accuracy, and key understanding of Addition and Subtraction.  

It maximises academic engagement by moving lessons along in a rapid manner with constant interchange between teacher and students. The SRA Corrective Mathematics curriculum provides practice with immediate feedback. Activities focus on addition and subtraction facts, operation of addition and subtraction, reading and writing numbers, column addition and subtraction, addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and solving story problems with distracters.  

The lessons will be conducted for thirty minutes, two times per week during class time.  

Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapists:

This Term we are delighted to have our external support team visiting and providing advice and assistance to teachers and identified students. Below is some information about their service.

UPDATE: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) 

We are currently in the data collection phase of the 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: 

• year of schooling 
• category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional 

• level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive. 

This information assists schools to: 

• formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools  
• consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools 
• develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability. 

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 the school.