AISWA Professional Learning and other educational events, news and information
CBCA WA : A Night With Our Stars 2021
Despite the somewhat disrupted start to the new school year we at the CBCA WA Branch are remaining positive and planning ahead. Bookings are now open for A Night with Our Stars scheduled for Friday 12 March with a stellar line up of guests ready to sparkle and entertain you. Make sure you've renewed your CBCA WA Branch membership so that you are eligible for the member discount ticket price and book as soon as you are able as places are still restricted because of covid. Please see attached flyer for the Westbooks discounts 
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For booking your place please click Here
2021 Brightpath PL Program
Please find attached the Brightpath Professional Learning Program 2021. There are a few new offerings for 2021. For information, please clickHere
Speak Up Awards 2021
Pandemic permitting, the Speak Up Awards sponsored by the Grand Lodge of WA Freemasons will be held this year. More details can be found Here
Career Development Events
Career development is everybody's business: professional learning - Schools
Schools, students, parents and carers, employers, communities and government all have a role in ensuring students are ready for the future world of work.
This full-day professional learning includes:
- Why career development matters;
- Skills and attributes employers are looking for;
- Up-to-date career pathway and labour market information;
- Linking the curriculum to future learning, work and life opportunities; and
- meaningful encounters with employers and workplaces.
Hear from education, training and industry representatives on how you can best prepare your students to transition beyond school.
For school staff to attend and more information on the above, please click Here
For parents to attend and more information on the above, please click Here
West Australian Young Readers' Book Award
West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award (WAYRBA) This local children’s choice book award has been running for 40 years. It is free to participate however schools and libraries can purchase merchandise. This year merchandise has been created by local author and illustrator, Kylie Howarth. The funds from these sales are our only income. The purpose of the Award is to promote reading for pleasure and aims to include Australian authors and illustrators where possible. to find out more please click Here
Purposeful Pedagogies: Global Competencies in Action
Are you a passionate educator with a social conscience? Do you go beyond the curriculum dot points to design meaningful tasks to engage your students in their world?
Would you like to connect, collaborate and learn alongside like-minded educators?
For this exciting Action Learning Project, we are seeking highly motivated teachers from AISWA Member schools to use a Project or Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach for a class or small group of students, fully documenting the learning journey, with an opportunity to contribute to a new AISWA online publication. If you’re a Year 3-10 AISWA Classroom teacher and this sounds like you please read our EOI form and to register for this Q & A webinar! Please click Here
Classroom Corner
Term 1 Focus - Mathematics and Playing Cards!
4 March 2021 | 4:00-5:15pm | MAWA Office, 12 Cobbler Place Mirrabooka Register: Here
MAWA Maths Expo
A free interactive event where families can come and play maths games or try out activities to support mathematics learning at home.
Sunday 14 March 2021 | AM Session: 9.30am-11.30am | PM Session: 12.30pm-2.30pm | Crown Convention Centre Perth Astral 2 & 3
Register: Here
Have Sum Fun Face-to-face
The Have Sum Fun Competition is an exciting mathematics initiative that uses a quiz-night format. Teams of six students race against the clock to solve four intense rounds of eight challenging problems. Competitions run between Friday 12 March and Saturday 20 March 2021
Various locations throughout the Perth Metropolitan area, and Peel, South West, Great Southern and Pilbara regions.
For more information and to register Here
Resources for National Anthem Change
From 1 January 2021, the second line of the Australian National Anthem was changed from ‘For we are young and free’ to ‘For we are one and free’. The Prime Minister, the Hon Scott Morrison MP, said the change was made for all Australians. The Prime Minister's full media release is available on his website. For more information, please click on the link Here
Opportunities for WA Young People to be Heard and Celebrated
If you know a child or young person who is passionate about making their community a better place for others, please ask them to consider becoming one of my Change Champions. Each school term, starting Term 1 2021, participants will be asked a question like, What needs to change in your town for young people? All participants will go into a draw to win a $25 gift voucher, with four drawn each term.Find out more about Change Champions and encourage young people to take part.
Commissioner for Children and Young People Participate Award
The WA Youth Awards were established in 1999 to recognise young Western Australians aged 12 to 25 years for their achievements and contributions to the community. The Awards also reward outstanding youth groups and organisations that serve and support the state’s young people. For more information please click Here