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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.
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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
Public School Parent Advocacy Group celebrates 70 years
Established in 1947, the Australian Council of State School Organisations (ACSSO), is the peak parent organisation representing the families of over 2.5 million students in our nation public schools. The organisation has been engaged in debate and on the forefront policy development on the national education agenda. Read more
Independent Office for School Dispute Resolution
Launched March 22, 2017
Parents Victoria says: "Parents Victoria applauds the introduction of the Independent Office as a long awaited systemic improvement for school complaint resolution."
"Independence in resolving our toughest cases is vital to finding a solution all parties will be happy with. After fighting for this for over ten years, Parents Victoria is pleased that we finally have an independent avenue for school disputes".
Read Parents Victoria's Media Release
Media Release , The Hon James Merlino MP, Deputy Premier, Minister for Education, Minister for Emergency Services
Article - The Age, March 22, 2017
Read more: DET website - Independent Office for School Dispute Resolution
Lets Work Together
This resource was launched jointly by Parents Victoria and the Australian Principals Federation in 2016.
"An engaged school community is the best marketing tool any school can have."
The resource contains ideas that have worked successfully in many different school communities and have sown the seeds for friendships and positive relationships.
The APF and PV have contributed to this material and welcome further ideas at any time, so that this becomes a repository for best practice into the future.
Thanks
Thank you to Eileen Berry (parentguides.com.au) and cyberhound for their expertise and support for this resource.
We welcome feedback and look forward to future projects with the APF going forward.
