School Curriculum & Standards’ Authority has launched a P-10 Teaching, Assessing and Reporting Policy & Policy Standards, as well as Notional Time Allocation Guidelines. These documents can be accessed from the Authority’s website at http://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/resources/outline-downloads.

Participants at the recent Biennial State Conference heard the opening address by Allan Blagaich, CEO of the School Curriculum and had a preliminary glimpse at the Notional Time Allocation Guidelines before they were officially published on 10 October.

“The Notional Time Allocation Guidelines: Pre-primary to Year 10 (the Guidelines) are presented as a guide. They are not mandatory and do not presume how schools should organise their students’ learning. The Guidelines have been developed to assist schools and teachers to plan for and make decisions about how the curriculum is implemented in their schools. The Guidelines provide the best advice currently available but will be monitored and may need to be amended as full implementation of the eight learning areas of the curriculum occurs.”