National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
The National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence was on 15 March. There was a terrific response from Victorian schools to the Day of Action this year – over 1,000 Victorian schools, and nearly 500,000 students, signed up to participate in the day. The Education Department launched a new video it has developed in collaboration with VAEAI and the Melbourne Football Club. The video addresses racist bullying, particularly directed towards Koorie students, and promotes upstander behaviour. It shares practical and safe strategies that students can take if they see or hear racist bullying – with the message of support ‘I have your back’.
Poster competition
The Department is also running a student poster competition, with ISV and CEO, to continue promoting the theme of upstander. As well as some generous prizes, the winning posters will be printed and sent to all schools.
More resources
See our Anti-bullying resources page for more information from the Education Department and other sources.
Family Engagement Network
Take a minute to check out the new Family Engagement Network
Facebook page. Find out all about the how & why of Family Engagement. If you were at Parents Victoria's annual conference in 2018, then you already know the importance of schools partnering with their families."Like" FEN now to be kept up to date with Family engagement, particularly in the government school sector.
Members - are you receiving 'Parents Voice'?
All Parents Victoria members - whether you're a Parents Club or an individual member - should receive our newsletter Parents Voice in your email on a regular basis. Usually it's 6 times per year.
If you're a paid-up member but you're not getting the emails, please contact our office.
And if you're not a member - you can easily join!
Parents Voice is an easy-to-read rundown of all the latest education news, from Parents Victoria's activities to the latest from the Education Department and lots of other groups that are active in education.
Be You - Let's grow a mentally healthy generation
Be You aims to transorm Australia's approach to supporting children's and your people's mental health in early learning services and schools, from early years to 18.
The Parent-School relationship
There are a lot of pieces that make up our school system...but there’s one piece missing.
The Parent-School relationship.
Your Government can put it in place.
Download "The Parent-School relationship "
Conference presentations
Feedback please
Did you attend our 2018 Conference? We want your feedbsck! Fill in our online feedback form. It will only take a few minutes.
Presentations
Here are some of the speakers' presentations from our conference on 20-21 August.
More coming soon!
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Dr Debbie Pushor:
Parent Engagement:- Moving from Random Acts to a Systematic Approach -
Doveton College:
understanding and implementing the conditions for reshaping a community through learning - Stronger Schools
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Dr Tim Moore:
Authentic engagement: the role and nature of relationships in parent/professional partnerships -
Ross Dean
Big School
Fairer Funding Now
Parents Victoria is a signatory to a letter supporting fairer funding for our schools and is one of the 23 organisations and more than 6,000 individuals who responded by joining the AEU in sending a clear message to the State and Territory Education Ministers and the Federal Education Minister to stand up for “FairFundingNow” for public schools.
On 13 April, the day of the COAG Education Council, the letter was delivered to all State and Territory Ministers and Minister Birmingham. Prior to the meeting in Adelaide, there was a media conference where a giant print out of the letter and individual names of the 6000 signers was delivered to ALP State and Territory Education Ministers to take into the meeting. This action was widely reported in the media.
Fact Sheet Gonski Review
National School Funding Debate
A word from Parents Victoria President, Sharron Healy …
It's time for our political parties to fund our schools on a truly needs-based formula - no more special deals! With over 80% of Australia's children being educated in public schools, we public school parents are by far the majority vote holders - so why is the influence of so few having such a big impact on the education of our children? Give us the #RealGonski
You can read our national president's full message in the ACSSO (Australian Council of State School Organisations) newsletter
The Age March 19, 2018
