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Department for Education

  • Teaching
    • Curriculum and teaching
      • Curriculum in the early years
      • Primary and secondary curriculum
      • Literacy and numeracy
      • Learning support
      • Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum
      • Cultural context
      • STEM Learning strategy
      • Responding to drugs and alcohol
      • Entrepreneurial learning
      • International Education Strategy
    • Teaching for Effective Learning
      • TfEL resources
      • TfEL framework
      • TfEL framework guide
      • TfEL compass
      • Teaching for Effective Learning (TfEL) resource library
      • Project colleagues – Teaching for Effective Learning
    • Assessment
      • Assessment and school reports
      • Assessment and the SACE
      • International student assessments
      • NAPLAN
    • Projects and programs
      • Water safety
      • SAASTA
      • Music
      • Healthy eating
      • Aboriginal Education Strategy
      • The Eden prize
      • Premier's Be Active Challenge
      • Premier’s Reading Challenge
      • National School Chaplaincy program
      • Wellbeing for Learning and Life framework
      • DreamBIG Children's Festival
      • SA Schools Space Mission
      • Resources for professionals engaging with parents
      • Backpacks for refugee children
      • Child Friendly SA
      • Minecraft: Education Edition
      • SA suffrage 125 schools competition
      • Space Industry Work Experience
      • The Workabout Centre
      • Governor’s Civics Awards for Schools
    • Term dates
    • Sport
      • Sports and competitions
      • Districts and zones
      • Sports coordinators
      • Awards
      • About us
      • Interstate team or school payments
    • School improvement
  • Supporting students
    • Children with disability and special needs
      • Special options pathways
      • Dyslexia
      • Disability support at preschool
      • Disability support at school
      • Inclusive Education Support program (IESP)
      • NDIS and the provision of educational services
      • Non-department service provider access to preschools and schools procedure
      • Protecting children and young people with disability
      • School to post-school options
    • Flexible learning option (FLO) enrolment
      • Flexible learning options (FLO) and enrolment
      • Approved panel of providers (APP)
      • Working with government schools
      • Feedback process – approved panel of providers
    • Health, e-safety and wellbeing
      • Accident, injury and ambulance claims
      • Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
      • Attendance support
      • Behaviour management and strategy
      • Bullying Prevention strategy
      • E-safety, bullying and harassment
      • Early childhood services immunisation requirements
      • Gender and sexual diversity
      • Health support planning
    • Projects and programs
    • Student Support Services
    • Child protection
      • Reporting child abuse
      • Information sharing guidelines
      • Child safe environments
      • Child protection policies and interagency guidelines
      • Protective practices
    • Learning and behaviour services
      • Better Behaviour Centres
      • Targeted Learning Services – mental health and trauma
      • Hospital School of South Australia
      • ACCEPT education program for complex autism
    • Problem sexual behaviour
  • Parenting and child care
    • Parenting
      • Parenting SA
      • Learning with your child (GreatStart)
      • Positive Parenting program
      • Antenatal services
      • Attendance support for families
      • Protecting children and young people with disability
      • Protective practices – for parents and carers
    • Child care
      • Choosing a child care service
      • Starting preschool
      • Services and programs
      • Occasional care
    • Your child's enrolment
      • Enrolment
      • Alternative education
      • Support for students
      • Overseas students
    • Volunteers
      • What volunteers need to know
      • Training for volunteers
      • Why volunteer with us
      • Volunteers in our workplace
      • Student volunteers
    • Engaging in your child's education
      • Helping children learn
      • Parents in Education funding
      • Resources for staff
  • Sites and facilities
    • Bushfires and emergency closures
      • Bushfire information
      • Bushfire updates
      • High bushfire risk schools and preschools
      • Post Pinery review
    • Upgrades and new schools
      • New South School
      • New North School
      • New Technical College
      • New Whyalla School
      • STEM Works
      • Major school upgrades
      • Improved internet for schools
    • Year 7 to high school
      • Year 7 to high school information for parents
      • Year 7 to high school information for schools
      • Year 7 to high school information for students
      • Regional transitional arrangements
    • Education and care locations
      • Find a school or preschool
      • Find other services
      • School zones
      • Special interest schools or programs
      • Aṉangu Lands
      • Sites and Services directory
      • Updating sites and services information
      • Capacity management plans at schools
    • Canteen management
    • Maintenance and design
      • Asbestos management
      • Building design and specifications
      • Outdoor learning environments
      • Building services, power and lighting
      • Computer recycling scheme
      • Fixtures, fittings and furniture
      • Gardening, fencing and security
      • Indoor areas
      • Designing, building and maintaining outdoor areas
      • Windows and painting
      • Asset maintenance program
      • Design for everyone
    • Community use of facilities
      • Community use of school and preschool facilities
      • Education Development Centre
      • Schools as community hubs
    • Governing councils
      • Understanding governing councils
      • Working on a governing council
      • Elections and meetings
      • Finance and budgets
      • Legal and insurance
      • Working with others
      • Community engagement
      • Governing council resources and tools
      • Training
    • Distribution centre
      • Australia Post mail
      • Courier services
      • Distribution service
      • Ordering forms and envelopes
    • Bookmark library system
      • Bookmark support
      • Bookmark training
    • Local partnerships
    • Environmental sustainability programs
      • Sustainable Schools program
      • Outdoor learning environments
      • Sustainable water use
      • Waste and resources management
      • Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative
  • Working with us
    • Edujobs – careers in schools and preschools
    • Working as a teacher
      • Types of teaching employment
      • Permanent school and preschool teacher placement
      • Teacher employment requirements and registration
      • Authority to teach or work letter
      • First aid requirements
      • Professional experience placements
      • Pay and allowances
      • Retired teachers working as temporary teachers
      • Teacher initiatives
      • Temporary relief teacher (TRT) cluster schemes
    • Preschool and school support (ancillary)
      • Edujobs – careers in schools and preschools
      • Ancillary employment requirements and registration
      • Aboriginal community education officers (ACEOs)
      • Authority to teach or work letter
      • Early childhood workers (ECWs)
      • Government services employee (groundsperson)
      • School services officers (SSOs)
    • Early childhood roles
      • Becoming a family day care educator
      • Early childhood workers (ECWs)
      • Family day care educator portal
      • Qualifications to work in children's services
    • Other positions
      • Become a swimming instructor
      • Careers in out of school hours care (OSHC)
      • Hourly paid instructor classification levels
      • Internships
      • Non-school vacancies
      • Private music instructors (PMIs)
      • Traineeships and graduates
    • Responding to abuse and neglect training
      • RAN-EC child protection training
      • Find out what training you need
      • Keeping your RAN-EC current
      • Training for non-department providers
      • RAN-EC induction sessions for volunteers
      • RAN-EC resources, checklists and templates
      • Training organisations
      • RAN-EC training courses
    • Relevant history screening
      • About working with children checks
      • Apply for a working with children check - working in education
      • Find out if you need a working with children check
    • Working in the department
      • Pay, wages and salaries
      • Retirement and resignation
      • Merit selection
      • Statement of service requests
      • Enterprise Bargaining Agreement
      • Returning to duty
  • The department
    • About the department
      • Our story
      • The Chief Executive
      • The Minister for Education
      • Public education statement
      • Strategic plan
      • Annual reports
      • Corporate office structure
      • Contact the department
    • Media centre
      • Our news
      • Media releases
      • Media statements
    • Policies
      • Acts and legislation
      • Departmental policies
      • Policy consultation process
    • Research and data
      • Research applications and evaluation in the department
      • The wellbeing and engagement collection
      • Statistics, reports and publications
      • Workforce reports
      • South Australian Collaborative Childhood Project
      • Australian Early Development Census
      • Fraser Mustard Centre
    • Reviews and responses
      • A review of VET for school students
      • A Fresh Start for TAFE
      • Education law reform
      • Independent Education Inquiry
      • Independent Governance Review (Pike review)
      • Royal commissions
      • SACE Stage 2 review
      • Changes to Centres for Hearing Impaired
    • Governance
      • Acts and legislation
      • Governance framework
      • Governing councils
    • Legal services
      • Freedom of information (FOI) requests
      • Accidental injury and ambulance claims
      • Acts and legislation
      • Duty of care
      • Permission to use copyright material
    • Online payment
    • Feedback and complaints
      • Schools and preschools
      • Other feedback
      • Public Service Guarantee
      • Public interest disclosures (whistleblowing)

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Information for schools

  • Role of parents in water safety
  • Allergy and anaphylaxis in water safety
  • Asthma in water safety
  • Epilepsy and seizures in water safety
  • Child safety in the Water Safety team
  • Cryptosporidium in water safety
  • Onsite school staff in water safety

Teaching

  • Curriculum and teaching
  • Teaching for Effective Learning
  • Assessment
  • Projects and programs
    • Water safety
      • Become an assistant instructor
      • Become an instructor
      • Information for schools
        • Role of parents in water safety
        • Allergy and anaphylaxis in water safety
        • Asthma in water safety
        • Epilepsy and seizures in water safety
        • Child safety in the Water Safety team
        • Cryptosporidium in water safety
        • Onsite school staff in water safety
      • Water safety programs
    • SAASTA
    • Music
    • Healthy eating
    • Aboriginal Education Strategy
    • The Eden prize
    • Premier's Be Active Challenge
    • Premier’s Reading Challenge
    • National School Chaplaincy program
    • Wellbeing for Learning and Life framework
    • DreamBIG Children's Festival
    • SA Schools Space Mission
    • Resources for professionals engaging with parents
    • Backpacks for refugee children
    • Child Friendly SA
    • Minecraft: Education Edition
    • SA suffrage 125 schools competition
    • Space Industry Work Experience
    • The Workabout Centre
    • Governor’s Civics Awards for Schools
  • Term dates
  • Sport
  • School improvement

Explore our department

  • Teaching
    • Curriculum and teaching
      • Curriculum in the early years
        • Reflect Respect Relate
        • Blue Book project
        • Designing preschool outdoor learning areas
        • Learning Together
        • Progress reports at kindergarten
        • Preschool outdoor learning environments
        • Curriculum from birth to year 10
      • Primary and secondary curriculum
        • Curriculum taught in South Australia
        • Curriculum from years 10 to 12
        • Australian Curriculum general capabilities
        • English as an additional language or dialect (EALD) program
        • Health and physical education
        • Workplace learning for students
        • Bike education program
        • Flexible Learning Options (FLO)
        • Languages offered at government schools
        • Music
        • Swimming and aquatics
        • Aboriginal cultural studies
        • Special interest schools or programs
      • Literacy and numeracy
        • Literacy Guarantee – how we're improving literacy
        • Literacy and numeracy resources for families
        • Literacy and numeracy programs in schools
        • Phonics screening check
        • Literacy and numeracy in the early years - birth to six years
      • Learning support
        • English as an additional language or dialect (EALD)
        • Numeracy and literacy resources for families
      • Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum
        • Child protection curriculum – information for parents and carers
        • Child protection curriculum – information for educators
      • Cultural context
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
        • Perspectives and pathways to cultural competence
      • STEM Learning strategy
      • Responding to drugs and alcohol
      • Entrepreneurial learning
      • International Education Strategy
    • Teaching for Effective Learning
      • TfEL resources
      • TfEL framework
      • TfEL framework guide
      • TfEL compass
      • Teaching for Effective Learning (TfEL) resource library
      • Project colleagues – Teaching for Effective Learning
        • Adam Lefstein
        • Andrew Fuller
        • Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield
        • Dr Chris Goldspink
        • Dr Dylan Wiliam
        • Dr George Otero and Susan Chambers-Otero
        • Dr Jonathan Sharples
        • Dr Judy Peters
        • Dr Julia Atkin
        • Dr Robin Fogarty and Brian Pete
        • Dr Rosie Le Cornu
        • Dr Stephanie Pace Marshall
        • Geoffrey Caine and Professor Renate Nummela Caine
        • Glenn Capelli
        • Jessica Dart
        • Professor Glenda MacNaughton
        • Professor Guy Claxton
        • Professor Katie Dawson
        • Professor Martin Westwell
        • Professor Philip Gammage
        • Professor Richard Bawden
    • Assessment
      • Assessment and school reports
      • Assessment and the SACE
      • International student assessments
      • NAPLAN
        • NAPLAN information for schools and principals
        • NAPLAN information for parents, carers and the community
    • Projects and programs
      • Water safety
        • Become an assistant instructor
          • Working for the water safety team
          • Become an assistant instructor
          • Austswim candidates
          • Information for instructors
          • Working with children check for water safety staff
        • Become an instructor
          • Become a swimming instructor
          • Become an aquatics instructor
          • Become a surf education instructor
          • Working with children check for water safety staff
          • Asthma first aid qualifications for water safety instructors
          • First aid qualifications for all water safety instructors
          • Resuscitation qualifications for Swimming and Aquatics instructors
        • Information for schools
          • Role of parents in water safety
          • Allergy and anaphylaxis in water safety
          • Asthma in water safety
          • Epilepsy and seizures in water safety
          • Child safety in the Water Safety team
          • Cryptosporidium in water safety
          • Onsite school staff in water safety
        • Water safety programs
          • Swimming program
          • Aquatics program
          • Surf education program
          • Cancelling water safety programs
          • Water safety programs and bookings
          • Onsite school staff in water safety
          • Swimming, aquatic and surf education centre contact details
      • SAASTA
        • About SAASTA
        • SAASTA Connect
        • SAASTA sports academies
        • SAASTA achievements
        • SAASTA enrolments
        • SAASTA school-based academy curriculum
      • Music
        • School music programs
          • Music in schools
          • Accessing instrumental music
          • Instrumental music education
          • Instrumental music lesson formats
          • Music performances
          • Primary Schools Music Festival
          • Private music instructors (PMIs)
        • School music ensembles
          • The Adelaide Flute Ensemble
          • Flutes of Fleurieu
          • Primary Schools Guitar Ensemble
          • Festival of Music Orchestras
          • Primary Schools String Orchestra (PSSO)
          • Recorder Consort SA
          • South Australian Schools Concert Band
          • Secondary Schools String Symphony (SSSS)
          • South Australian Schools Percussion Ensemble
        • Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029
      • Healthy eating
        • Canteens
        • Developing healthy food policies
        • Food brought from home
        • Healthy eating curriculum for South Australian primary schools
        • Implementing healthy food practices
      • Aboriginal Education Strategy
      • The Eden prize
      • Premier's Be Active Challenge
      • Premier’s Reading Challenge
      • National School Chaplaincy program
        • National School Chaplaincy Program - how to apply for funding
      • Wellbeing for Learning and Life framework
      • DreamBIG Children's Festival
      • SA Schools Space Mission
      • Resources for professionals engaging with parents
      • Backpacks for refugee children
      • Child Friendly SA
      • Minecraft: Education Edition
        • Minecraft information for parents and guardians
        • Minecraft information for students
      • SA suffrage 125 schools competition
      • Space Industry Work Experience
      • The Workabout Centre
      • Governor’s Civics Awards for Schools
    • Term dates
    • Sport
      • Sports and competitions
        • Statewide schools competitions
        • Interstate nomination process
        • State carnivals, state championships and individual school championships – event details
        • Sapsasa state carnivals and state championships – eligibility and selection
      • Districts and zones
        • Sapsasa districts
        • School Sport SA secondary zones
      • Sports coordinators
        • Information for sports coordinators
        • School Sport SA secondary affiliation
      • Awards
        • Howard Mutton awards
        • School Sports Awards
      • About us
        • About School Sport SA
        • Contact School Sport SA
        • History of sports organisations in our schools
        • Management committees – sports
      • Interstate team or school payments
    • School improvement
  • Supporting students
    • Children with disability and special needs
      • Special options pathways
      • Dyslexia
        • Dyslexia support at school
        • Helping your child with dyslexia at home
      • Disability support at preschool
      • Disability support at school
      • Inclusive Education Support program (IESP)
      • NDIS and the provision of educational services
      • Non-department service provider access to preschools and schools procedure
      • Protecting children and young people with disability
      • School to post-school options
    • Flexible learning option (FLO) enrolment
      • Flexible learning options (FLO) and enrolment
      • Approved panel of providers (APP)
      • Working with government schools
      • Feedback process – approved panel of providers
    • Health, e-safety and wellbeing
      • Accident, injury and ambulance claims
      • Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
      • Attendance support
      • Behaviour management and strategy
      • Bullying Prevention strategy
        • Keeping children safe from bullying conference
      • E-safety, bullying and harassment
      • Early childhood services immunisation requirements
      • Gender and sexual diversity
      • Health support planning
        • Managing health in education and care
          • Health support
          • Health support training
          • Medication management
          • Health support services and programs
            • Access Assistant Program (AAP)
            • Complex and invasive health support
            • EDMed for Teachers
            • Health Education Interface (HEI)
            • Hospital School South Australia (HSSA)
            • MyTime program
            • Registered Nurse Delegation of Care program
            • School immunisation program
          • Physical health
            • Acquired brain injury (ABI)
            • Anaphylaxis and severe allergies
            • Asthma
            • Cancer
            • Cystic fibrosis
            • Diabetes
            • Osteogenesis imperfecta
            • Palliative care and resuscitation
            • Seizures and epilepsy
            • Spina bifida and hydrocephalus
            • Whooping cough
          • Personal care
            • Constipation and dehydration
            • Continence
            • Head lice
            • Immunisation
            • Infection control and disease prevention
            • Menstrual management
            • Oral eating and drinking
            • Transfer and positioning
          • Neurodiversity
            • ADHD
            • Anxiety
            • Autism spectrum
            • Depression
            • Eating disorders
            • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)
            • Interoception
            • Self-harm and suicidality
        • Health care plans
    • Projects and programs
    • Student Support Services
    • Child protection
      • Reporting child abuse
      • Information sharing guidelines
      • Child safe environments
        • About child safe environments
        • Creating child safe environments
          • Additional resources for creating child safe environments
          • Developing a child safe environments policy
          • Developing a code of conduct
          • Obligations for organisations crossing state and territory borders
          • Obligations of mandatory notifiers and child safe organisations
          • Reviewing your risk
          • Safe environments – Through their eyes training
          • Screening and background checks
          • Supervision and professional development for employees and volunteers
        • Working with children checks for child safe environments
          • Working with children checks for child safe environments
        • Lodging a child safe environments compliance statement
        • Legislative changes to child safe environments
      • Child protection policies and interagency guidelines
      • Protective practices
    • Learning and behaviour services
      • Better Behaviour Centres
      • Targeted Learning Services – mental health and trauma
      • Hospital School of South Australia
      • ACCEPT education program for complex autism
    • Problem sexual behaviour
  • Parenting and child care
    • Parenting
      • Parenting SA
        • Parent Easy Guides
        • Parenting SA shop
        • Parenting seminars and videos
          • Parents talk about guiding behaviour
        • Parent information and support
      • Learning with your child (GreatStart)
        • GreatStart activities
        • Being active
        • Celebrations
        • Food
        • Getting ready
        • Growing
        • Out and about
        • Play
        • Word play
        • Working it out
        • Everyday learning for literacy
        • Everyday learning for numeracy
        • Everyday learning for STEM
      • Positive Parenting program
      • Antenatal services
      • Attendance support for families
        • Helping your child go to school or preschool
        • When your child needs support
        • When your family needs support
        • Why it’s good to go to school or preschool
        • Legal responsibilities and school
        • Missing school or preschool
      • Protecting children and young people with disability
        • A parent's view
        • Identifying and recognising abuse
        • Protecting your child from sexual abuse
        • Preventing sexual abuse for children with disability
        • Signs of sexual abuse and how to respond
        • Why children with disability are more vulnerable
        • Ways to protect your child from abuse and neglect
        • What to do if you think you might harm your child
      • Protective practices – for parents and carers
    • Child care
      • Choosing a child care service
      • Starting preschool
      • Services and programs
        • Child care options
        • Playgroups and playcentres
        • Children's centres
          • Find a children's centre
          • Guiding principles and population outcomes
          • Children's centre programs
            • Family practitioners
            • Community Development program
            • Allied health program
            • Parent group terms of reference
            • Services offered at children's centres and children and family centres
          • Governance
            • Governance arrangements
            • Governance principles and practices
            • Governing council and regional advisory group
            • Leadership team
            • Partnership group terms of reference
        • Out of school hours care (OSHC)
          • Managing an OSHC service
            • Intervac inclusion funding
            • National Quality Framework (NQF)
            • OSHC resources and tools
            • Relevant history screening for OSHC staff and volunteers
            • Professional development
            • OSHC as an integral part of the school
            • Applying for grants
            • Children and media in OSHC
            • Meeting the demand for care
            • Planning out of school hours care (OSHC) events
            • OSHC financial management for governing council operated services
          • Setting up or closing a service
            • Establishing an OSHC service
            • School governing council as approved providers
            • Deciding to cease operating an OSHC service
            • Closing an OSHC service
          • Roles and responsibilities
            • Principal’s role in out of school hours care
            • Out of school hours care director role
            • School governing council operated OSHC service
            • OSHC advisory committee
            • Financial support staff in out of school hours care
          • Employment by school governing councils
            • Careers in OSHC
            • Contract of employment
            • Industrial information and awards for OSHC staff
            • Managing allegations of sexual misconduct
            • Notifying the department of terminated employees
            • Recruitment and suitability of OSHC staff
          • Approved provider - reporting critical incidents and injuries
            • Approved provider – reporting critical incidents, injuries and complaints
          • Third party providers
            • Third party OSHC providers
            • Contract management
        • Preschool and kindergarten
        • Family day care
        • Learning Together program
        • Learning Together at Home program
      • Occasional care
    • Your child's enrolment
      • Enrolment
        • Find a school or preschool
        • Starting preschool and school
        • Placement in school or preschool
        • Confirming enrolment to school or preschool
        • Changing schools
      • Alternative education
        • Aboriginal schools
        • External education
        • Flexible learning options (FLO) and enrolment
        • Mature age high school students
      • Support for students
        • Disability support at preschool
        • Disability support at school
        • Enter for Success program for Aboriginal students
        • Support for students from non-English speaking backgrounds
      • Overseas students
        • International education
        • Visa subclasses
        • Temporary resident students (457 and 482 visas)
          • Student fees for subclass 457 and 482 visa holders
          • School enrolments for families on 457 and 482 visas
          • Paying the temporary resident student fee
          • Change of details form
          • Student fee calculator 2019 and 2020
          • 2019 temporary resident registration form
          • 2020 temporary resident registration form
          • Annual renewal form
    • Volunteers
      • What volunteers need to know
        • Volunteering in schools, preschools and children's centres
        • Getting started – applying
        • Rights of volunteers
        • Apply for a working with children check – working in education
        • Expected behaviour for volunteers
      • Training for volunteers
        • When you start – inductions
        • RAN-EC induction sessions for volunteers
        • Volunteers from third party providers – RAN-EC
      • Why volunteer with us
        • It’s good to volunteer with us
        • Minister's Volunteering Award
        • Meet some of our volunteers
        • 2019 National Volunteer Week celebrations
        • How Aboriginal people can help
        • Thank you video for our volunteers
        • Student artwork inspired by volunteers
      • Volunteers in our workplace
        • Volunteer contact person – your key contact
        • Out-of-pocket costs and volunteers
        • Volunteer policy
      • Student volunteers
        • Students and kids as volunteers
        • Student volunteer programs – benefits and approaches
        • Plan and prepare for a student volunteer program
        • Before students volunteer
        • How to run a student volunteer program
        • Reflect and share – after students volunteer
        • About school students as volunteers – information for volunteer-involving organisations
        • Getting ready for student volunteers – information for host organisations
    • Engaging in your child's education
      • Helping children learn
        • What being engaged in your child’s education means — a video
        • Parent engagement — hear what parents, students and teachers think
        • What you can do to help your child
          • Parent engagement in children’s learning
          • Families helping children learn
          • Communicating with school — helping children and young people learn
          • Helping children learn in the early years
          • Helping children learn – the primary years
          • Helping children learn — the secondary years
      • Parents in Education funding
      • Resources for staff
        • Parent engagement framework
        • Professional learning
  • Sites and facilities
    • Bushfires and emergency closures
      • Bushfire information
      • Bushfire updates
      • High bushfire risk schools and preschools
      • Post Pinery review
    • Upgrades and new schools
      • New South School
      • New North School
      • New Technical College
      • New Whyalla School
      • STEM Works
        • STEM Works schools
        • About STEM Works
        • News
      • Major school upgrades
      • Improved internet for schools
    • Year 7 to high school
      • Year 7 to high school information for parents
      • Year 7 to high school information for schools
      • Year 7 to high school information for students
      • Regional transitional arrangements
    • Education and care locations
      • Find a school or preschool
      • Find other services
      • School zones
        • High school zoning
        • Primary school zoning
        • Changes to high school zoning in 2020
      • Special interest schools or programs
        • List of secondary schools with special interest or specialist programs
        • Special interest schools and specialist programs
        • French bilingual program
        • Moving from France to South Australia
        • Chinese bilingual education
      • Aṉangu Lands
      • Sites and Services directory
      • Updating sites and services information
      • Capacity management plans at schools
    • Canteen management
    • Maintenance and design
      • Asbestos management
      • Building design and specifications
      • Outdoor learning environments
      • Building services, power and lighting
      • Computer recycling scheme
      • Fixtures, fittings and furniture
      • Gardening, fencing and security
      • Indoor areas
      • Designing, building and maintaining outdoor areas
      • Windows and painting
      • Asset maintenance program
      • Design for everyone
        • Why design for everyone
        • Designing building materials, fixtures and fittings
        • Designing calming or stimulating sensory learning spaces
        • Designing entrances and exits
        • Designing for Aboriginal children and students with disability
        • Designing for families of children and students with disability
        • Designing for health and safety
        • Designing for size, shape and connecting spaces
        • Designing for teenagers with disability
        • Designing indoor learning spaces
        • Designing outdoor learning spaces
        • Designing storage
        • Designing to encourage positive behaviour
        • Designing to help people find their way
        • Designing toilets and change rooms
        • Rights, legislation and standards
        • Glossary of terms
    • Community use of facilities
      • Community use of school and preschool facilities
      • Education Development Centre
        • Rooms and function spaces
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        • Designing building materials, fixtures and fittings
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        • Designing entrances and exits
        • Designing for Aboriginal children and students with disability
        • Designing for families of children and students with disability
        • Designing for health and safety
        • Designing for size, shape and connecting spaces
        • Designing for teenagers with disability
        • Designing indoor learning spaces
        • Designing outdoor learning spaces
        • Designing storage
        • Designing to encourage positive behaviour
        • Designing to help people find their way
        • Designing toilets and change rooms
        • Rights, legislation and standards
        • Glossary of terms
    • Community use of facilities
      • Community use of school and preschool facilities
      • Education Development Centre
        • Rooms and function spaces
        • Equipment and catering
        • Venue bookings
        • Visitor information
        • Location and parking
        • Image gallery
      • Schools as community hubs
    • Governing councils
      • Understanding governing councils
        • What a governing council does
        • What a school council does
        • School councils and governing councils – the different terms
        • Glossary of terms
        • Eligibility – school and governing councils
        • Who is on a school or governing council
        • Time and commitments
        • What you do on a council
        • Background
      • Working on a governing council
        • Responsibilities – councils and site leaders
        • Conduct of council members – school and governing councils
        • Dealing with personal information
        • Roles on school and governing councils
        • What you do on a council
        • Examples of governance structures – councils
        • Setting up a governing council
        • Not enough council members
        • Who is on a school or governing council
        • Policy development at a school or preschool
        • Interview panels and merit selection
      • Elections and meetings
        • Eligibility – school and governing councils
        • Meetings – school and governing councils
        • Council elections – school and governing councils
        • Annual general meetings – councils
        • How to have an effective meeting – councils
        • Maintaining good relationships – council meetings
        • Election planning for school and governing councils
        • Not enough council members
        • Minute taking and record keeping
        • Rules for meetings – standing orders
      • Finance and budgets
        • Finance roles – school and governing councils
        • Finance advisory committees – how they work
        • Budgets – school and governing councils
        • Finance questions and concerns
        • Materials and services charges – governing councils
        • Fees – school-based preschools
        • Fees – stand-alone preschools
        • Finance information sheets
      • Legal and insurance
        • Constitutions – schools
        • Constitutions – preschools
        • Disputes and legal protection
        • Dealing with misconduct
        • Relevant history screenings – councils
        • Being an employer – school and governing councils
        • School/governing councils and OSHC staff
        • When to change an approved council constitution
        • How to change a governing council’s constitution – schools
        • Acts and legislation – school and governing councils
        • Dealing with personal information
        • Eligibility – school and governing councils
      • Working with others
        • Student voice
        • Working with committees – councils
        • Affiliated committees – how they can help
        • Setting up or winding down a committee of council
        • Volunteers – school or governing councils
        • Getting parents on your governing council
        • Aboriginal community voice
        • Getting involved – your school or preschool
        • Talking to the media
      • Community engagement
        • Innovative ways to govern
        • How to get parents more involved – a case study
        • How to get the community involved – a case study
      • Governing council resources and tools
      • Training
        • Anangu school governing council training
        • Online school and preschool governance training
        • Face-to-face training
    • Distribution centre
      • Australia Post mail
      • Courier services
      • Distribution service
      • Ordering forms and envelopes
    • Bookmark library system
      • Bookmark support
      • Bookmark training
    • Local partnerships
    • Environmental sustainability programs
      • Sustainable Schools program
        • Lighting upgrades
        • Site selection and industry participation
        • Solar power installation
      • Outdoor learning environments
        • Demonstration outdoor learning environments
        • Outdoor learning environments gallery
        • Resources for creating outdoor learning environments
      • Sustainable water use
      • Waste and resources management
      • Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative
        • Register to become an AuSSI-SA school
  • Working with us
    • Edujobs – careers in schools and preschools
    • Working as a teacher
      • Types of teaching employment
      • Permanent school and preschool teacher placement
      • Teacher employment requirements and registration
      • Authority to teach or work letter
      • First aid requirements
      • Professional experience placements
      • Pay and allowances
        • Pay, wages and salaries
        • Allowances
          • Behaviour support unit allowance
          • Claims - practicum (supervising teachers)
          • Claims - working above maximum face to face teaching load
          • Country incentives
          • Laundry allowance for permanent relieving teachers
          • On call allowance
          • Personal protective equipment (PPE) claims and reimbursement
          • Private vehicle use: approval and allowance
          • Relocating to rural and remote areas
          • Special class allowance
          • Student toileting allowance
      • Retired teachers working as temporary teachers
      • Teacher initiatives
        • Amy Levai Aboriginal teaching scholarship
        • Australian professional standards for teachers
        • Public Education Awards
          • Honour roll 2019
          • Nominate
          • Apply
          • Categories
          • Terms of entry
          • Assessment
          • Ceremony
          • Sponsors
          • Our Ambassador
          • 2018 award winners and finalists
          • 2017 award winners and finalists
        • Teacher salary reclassification
      • Temporary relief teacher (TRT) cluster schemes
    • Preschool and school support (ancillary)
      • Edujobs – careers in schools and preschools
      • Ancillary employment requirements and registration
      • Aboriginal community education officers (ACEOs)
      • Authority to teach or work letter
      • Early childhood workers (ECWs)
      • Government services employee (groundsperson)
      • School services officers (SSOs)
    • Early childhood roles
      • Becoming a family day care educator
      • Early childhood workers (ECWs)
      • Family day care educator portal
        • Login
          • Latest news
          • Children's health and safety
          • Educators, families and community
          • Policy, procedure and standards
          • Contact family day care
          • FDC business administration
          • Forms for educators
          • Notifications
          • Code of conduct
          • Professional learning
      • Qualifications to work in children's services
    • Other positions
      • Become a swimming instructor
      • Careers in out of school hours care (OSHC)
      • Hourly paid instructor classification levels
      • Internships
      • Non-school vacancies
      • Private music instructors (PMIs)
      • Traineeships and graduates
    • Responding to abuse and neglect training
      • RAN-EC child protection training
      • Find out what training you need
      • Keeping your RAN-EC current
      • Training for non-department providers
      • RAN-EC induction sessions for volunteers
        • Volunteers from third party providers – RAN-EC
      • RAN-EC resources, checklists and templates
      • Training organisations
      • RAN-EC training courses
        • Foundation course: Responding to Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care
        • Teacher's registration renewal course: Responding to Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care
        • Bridging course: Child Safe Environments to RAN-EC
        • Volunteers face-to-face course: Responding to Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care
        • Volunteers online course: Responding to Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care
        • Bus drivers foundation course: Responding to Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care
        • Promoting safety and wellbeing (RAN-EC induction for tertiary students)
    • Relevant history screening
      • About working with children checks
      • Apply for a working with children check - working in education
      • Find out if you need a working with children check
    • Working in the department
      • Pay, wages and salaries
      • Retirement and resignation
      • Merit selection
      • Statement of service requests
      • Enterprise Bargaining Agreement
      • Returning to duty
  • The department
    • About the department
      • Our story
        • Every chance for every child
        • Every school a great school
        • Strong, creative, resilient learners
        • Protecting our children together
        • Committed professionals
        • Delivering a high performing system
      • The Chief Executive
      • The Minister for Education
        • About the Minister for Education
        • External Relations
          • What External Relations does
          • Ministerial advisory committees
          • External Relations publications
          • Planning for new or significantly changed non-government schools
          • School Card for non-government schools
          • School loan scheme
          • Ethnic and community languages schools
        • Ministerial Advisory Committee: Children and Students with Disability
          • MACCSWD terms of reference
          • Contact MACCSWD
          • Current members of the MACCSWD
          • MACCSWD Projects
          • National Equity Program Grants
          • Child protection information booklets for parents and carers
          • MACCSWD publications
          • Principles of Inclusion for Children and Students with Disability
          • Protection and prevention of abuse of children and young people with disability in residential care
          • Same first day for children with disability and/or additional needs
          • Effective building practices report
          • Principles of Effective Professional Learning
        • Multicultural Education and Languages Committee (MELC)
          • About MELC
          • MELC supported projects
          • Smolicz Award Language Teaching Scholarship
          • Award for Leadership in Languages and Cultures
          • MELC events
          • MELC research and projects
          • The MELC Statement
        • Child Death and Serious Injury Review Committee
          • Guiding principles of the Child Death and Serious Injury Review Committee
      • Public education statement
      • Strategic plan
        • Delivering Digital 2016-2020 digital technology strategy
      • Annual reports
      • Corporate office structure
      • Contact the department
    • Media centre
      • Our news
      • Media releases
      • Media statements
    • Policies
      • Acts and legislation
      • Departmental policies
      • Policy consultation process
    • Research and data
      • Research applications and evaluation in the department
        • Conducting research and evaluation
        • Existing and new research sources for researchers
        • Conducting a literature review as part of an evidence synthesis
        • Data access requests
        • Research grants for earning and learning pathways
      • The wellbeing and engagement collection
        • About the wellbeing and engagement collection
          • Physical health, lifestyle and after school activities
          • School relationships and engagement
          • Social and emotional wellbeing
        • Uses and benefits of the wellbeing and engagement collection
        • Safeguarding personal information
      • Statistics, reports and publications
        • Statistics about sites, students and staff
        • Disclosing government information requested under FOI
        • Disclosure logs
          • Disclosure logs - Department
          • Disclosure logs - Minister
        • Funding policy for schools and preschools (RES notes)
        • State and national school and preschool data publications
      • Workforce reports
        • Reports and surveys
        • Workforce profiles
      • South Australian Collaborative Childhood Project
      • Australian Early Development Census
      • Fraser Mustard Centre
        • About the Fraser Mustard Centre
        • Fraser Mustard Centre completed research
        • Fraser Mustard Centre current projects
    • Reviews and responses
      • A review of VET for school students
      • A Fresh Start for TAFE
      • Education law reform
      • Independent Education Inquiry
      • Independent Governance Review (Pike review)
      • Royal commissions
      • SACE Stage 2 review
      • Changes to Centres for Hearing Impaired
    • Governance
      • Acts and legislation
      • Governance framework
        • Transparency and accountability
        • Legal and authorising environment
        • Organisational alignment
        • Policies, procedures and guidelines
        • Governance structures
          • Corporate governance structures
          • Partnership governance structures
          • Governing council and children's centre governance structures
          • Child and Family Health Services governance structures
        • Planning and risk management
      • Governing councils
    • Legal services
      • Freedom of information (FOI) requests
      • Accidental injury and ambulance claims
      • Acts and legislation
      • Duty of care
      • Permission to use copyright material
    • Online payment
    • Feedback and complaints
      • Schools and preschools
      • Other feedback
      • Public Service Guarantee
      • Public interest disclosures (whistleblowing)
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