Organising the wealth of information to be used to support our class placement process for 2020 takes a considerable amount of time as we aim to ensure fair and equitable creation of classes. 2020 classes will be created based on a wide range of information including gender, students with additional needs, academic abilities and teacher, student and parent input. We create all classes with the needs of your child’s learning at the heart of the decision-making. Students are asked by teachers to nominate others with whom they play and learn successfully. We acknowledge student friendships as an important part of your child’s schooling, though this is balanced with teacher and student input to ensure children develop their resilience and can connect and make new friendships. Teachers have the overall responsibility to work with their colleagues to ensure consistency in allocating information to each student across a year level. Key software is then utilised by staff to create and adapt classes for 2020.
As part of our partnership in learning we invite parents/caregivers to provide any significant information to be considered for the 2020 class placement process.
Please submit information in writing for any of the following:
- Your child has a social and emotional, health, behaviour or learning issue.
- There is confidential information relating to issues between families that needs considering as part of class placement.
- Your child has a disability and recognised school NEP/OCOP plan and key information needs to be considered linked to this.
- Other mitigating factors that may impact significantly on your child’s learning in 2020
At West Lakes Shore School all teachers are qualified and we ask that you are careful about not making judgement based on the information provided by others. In every class across school students work in a range of ability levels. We differentiate the learning to support each child’s needs. Whether your child is in a straight class or a composite class does not affect the level of their learning.
Key Information that parents cannot provide to be considered for class placement includes:
- Requests to have a specific teacher
- Requests to not have a specific teacher
- Requests NOT to be in a composite class
- Requests for separations – these can only occur if there is significant history involving ongoing issues
Please ensure the information you wish to provide is sent in writing, addressed to carol.press854@schools.sa.edu.au, with Class Placement 2020 in the subject line, by Friday September 27th. (Week 10, Term 3) Previous parent information is not kept on record. Information from parents is required to be submitted annually and in writing.
If a large number of separations are requested then these cannot be met due to the overall requirement to ensure fair and equitable classes as part of the agreed Educational Industrial Agreements for teachers. The school PAC committee finalise classes based on this agreement. Final class placement allocations are then approved by leadership due to consideration of confidential information.
Information regarding your child’s class placement and teacher for 2020 will come out with the end of Year reports in the final week of Term 4.
We thank parents/caregivers for their support and understanding of this complex and time-consuming class placement process.
