How do we support students?

We operate a Multi-tiered System of Support that promotes success for all students. The graphic below helps to illustrate how this system works.

Our support team work collaboratively with all staff to provide opportunities for all students to improve and reach their goals. For some students, this looks like support in their classroom, delivered by their teachers (Tier 1). For others, this might mean specialised programs delivered in or outside of school hours (Tier 3). We have added a fourth Tier to illustrate the work we do with external agencies to support our students. Every student is unique, as are their needs so we tailor to the individual and collect data on their strategies to make sure they are successful.

As parents and carers, your input on the strategies we make are so important to the success of your child's Personalised Learning Plan. Twice a year, we will send these Personalised Learning Plans home for your input as well as your childs’. We also offer meetings by appointment through Admin at any time to discuss these plans so they reflect the right support for your child.

Reasonable adjustments resourcing (RAR) allocation

Each state school receives a core allocation of resources and funding to support the learning needs of all students. In addition to the core allocation, RAR allocates extra teachers and teacher aides to schools where adjustments are needed for students with disability. The resources are allocated to schools, not individual students.

Under RAR, the resource allocation for each school is based on the level of supports students with disability need to access and participate in education.

Why do we collect Data?

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).

 How does funding work for students with a disability?

Schools are allocated resources for all students with disability. 

The department has engaged the Community Resource Unit (CRU) to support parents of students with disability across Queensland to build self-advocacy skills and to work effectively with schools. CRU holds workshops in communities across Queensland to help families to learn more about inclusive education and how families can develop a collaborative relationship with their child’s school. To register for a workshop or find out more about the supports, visit the CRU website.

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