Welcome back to term 4. I hope you all had a lovely school break. It was lovely to see the students return last week and share their holiday adventures.

Public School Review

All staff were very busy on our first day back on our School Development Day on Monday of last week. We took this opportunity to review our school self-assessment in preparation for our Public School Review, which took place on Wednesday. This was a day where two Department of Education Public School Reviewers came to our school for the day to validate our self-assessment processes. Throughout the day they met with our school leadership teams, teaching and non-teaching staff, School Board Chairs, P&C President, host school principals, and parents from all three of our sites. It was a very rich day of discussions around our school processes and student achievement. Feedback was extremely positive. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to these interviews and providing such valuable information to our reviewers. I look forward to sharing with you the report when it is finalised and sent to us in a couple of weeks.

Referrals for 2022

Last week we also conducted our Placement Process for 2022 referrals. I’m sure you can all remember when you went through this process when your child first applied to be referred to our school. It is a time of mixed feelings of uncertainty, excitement and anticipation waiting on a possible offer of placement. We will be sending out our first round of offers this week, so we look forward to welcoming some new families to our school next year.

DLD Awareness Day

On Friday 15th of October we celebrated Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day.  This is a day aimed at raising awareness internationally for DLD. This is a big part of the reason for our schools’ existence, so we encourage you to spread the word. Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (RADLD) is an international organisation helping to increase awareness of this hidden, but common condition. They have a wealth of information about DLD on their website: https://radld.org/ . Each of our sites have had a staff morning tea to help raise awareness across our host schools. Our Speech Pathologists gave presentations, you can read some of the information presented here.

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Below, are some of the ways that you can get involved on social media to support the campaign!

WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS CAN I USE?

• Like us on Facebook @radld.page or www.facebook.com/radld.page
• Follow us on Twitter @RADLDcam or www.twitter.com/radldcam
• Follow us on TikTok @RADLDCam
• Subscribe to us on YouTube or www.youtube.com/RADLD
• Post your own views and share your own experiences

I look forward to a great Term 4!

Kind regards

Vivienne Doig
Principal

Dear FLDC families

It’s hard to believe that we are at the end of Term 3 already. This term has been another busy one, with many fun activities for the students including:

• Edu-Dance at our Willagee site
• Sports Carnivals across all sites
• Cultural Day where all sites came to Willagee
• Assemblies

This week teachers have started their meetings discussing each child’s Individual Education Plan, and some families have attended case conferences to discuss their child’s progress and transition to mainstream. Our Year 3 Exit Case Conferences will take place at the beginning of Term 4.

We are very excited to be having our Public School Review on the first week back next term. We are currently in the process of uploading all our school achievements to send to the Department of Education by the end of this week. Public School Reviewers will then look at all this information and our school self-assessment processes during the school holidays. On Wednesday 13th October, the Review Team will visit our school for the school-based validation process. During this day, they will take part in a series of scheduled meetings with representatives of the staff and school community.

This has been a great opportunity to reflect on our amazing school and celebrate our great achievements. We look forward to sharing with you the feedback from the Reviewers around Week 4 of next term.

Happy Holidays

All staff and students are looking forward to a very well deserved holiday.  I wish all our staff and families a fun and restful 2 weeks. We look forward to students returning on Tuesday 12th October for Term 4.  Our staff return the day before to engage in a full day of professional learning.

Take care and stay well.

Kind regards

Vivienne Doig
Principal

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Fremantle Language Development Centre (FLDC) is committed to continuous improvement in its drive to achieve its vision of: “To be a school of excellence that empowers students to talk, learn and grow”.

We would be extremely grateful if you could complete our Parent Survey so that we can identify what is working well and how we can improve in the future. A link to the survey will be emailed to you tomorrow and responses are anonymous. There will also be an option to complete a paper copy if you would prefer. These will be available in your child’s classroom, so feel free to complete while you are waiting for your child at the end of the day or at drop off. Copies will be available in the office too, so please let Penny know if you would like a copy, or if you would like help to complete. The information gained from the survey will be collated and reviewed by the School Board where we will identify our strengths and areas for improvement. This will be valuable information that we can share as part of our Public School Review process that will be taking place on Wednesday 13th October (start of Term 4). Thank you so much for your support in working with us in our continuous school improvement journey.

Kind regards

Vivienne Doig
Principal

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Welcome back to Term 3. I hope you all had a lovely restful school break. It was great to see our students return yesterday and happy and engaged in their learning.

Staff School Development Day

Our staff have started off their term with a full day of informative and practical professional learning on Monday. Our focus areas included:

• Observation, Reflection and Feedback
• Social and Emotional Learning – Little Highway Heroes and Highway Heroes whole school program
• NDIS
• Numeracy research and quality intervention for children with language difficulties

It was a very fulfilling and comprehensive day and I would like to thank all the staff for their dedication to their continued professional learning in order to provide the best teaching and learning for our students.

P&C Day

This Friday on 23rd July, we celebrate P&C Day, WA. This is a day where we give thanks to our wonderful P&C for all their work and contributions to our school and our students. Our Willagee staff will be hosting a morning tea for our amazing P&C volunteers to thank them for all they have done to fundraise for our school to provide additional resources to support the learning opportunities of our students.

Feel free to share your appreciation for the FLDC P&C on social media and use the hashtag #PANDCDAYWA

Referrals for 2022

As you are all aware, the end of Term 3 is when our referrals are due for the following year. Next week we will be hosting another open morning to provide information to parents who may going through the process of referring their child to Fremantle LDC. If you know anyone who may have a child with language difficulties, please let them know about our school tour on Tuesday of next week. We have also updated our information video on our school website, so please pass this information on to prospective families. This can be found at www.fremantleldc.wa.edu.au

School Tour for prospective parents, teachers or referring agents for 2022:

When: Tuesday 27th July 2021
Time: 9:30am – 10.30am
Where: Fremantle Language Development Centre, Willagee campus – 24 Winnacott Street, Willagee

Thanks again for all your support. We are looking forward to a wonderful Term 3.

Kind regards

Vivienne Doig
Principal