Dear Parents and Carers,

Last week was an extremely busy week with a number of special visitors and activities taking place.

As the rebuild of our Koroit Avenue site has commenced we had a film company filming the school buildings and programs and interviewing staff on Thursday and Friday to produce our school history on DVD.

David Brown and a film crew from Channel 7 visited the school last Tuesday to produce a segment about Jack for David Brown’s School Days. The segment went to air at the end of the Channel 7 news on Saturday 25th February.

On Wednesday 22nd February the Hon. Brendan O’Connor Federal Minister for Human Services and Minister Assisting for School Education visited our school and addressed a small group of parents and staff on the findings of the Feder-al Funding Review in relation to funding for students with disabilities. The recommendations of the review were to increase funding to the disability area of education across all systems. Maria Vamvakinou M.P. Federal Member for Caldwell accompanied Minister O’Connor on his tour of the school.

Today we had a visit from Colin Brooks M.P. for Bundoora and Frank Mc Guire M.P. for Broadmeadows. Both mem-bers of parliament were interested in touring our school and having discussions regarding the role of special schools and our programs in particular.

Next Tuesday we will host a delegation of speech pathologists and special education teachers from Singapore. The visitors, accompanied by personnel from the Internation-al Division of the Department of Education, will be looking at our literacy and reading intervention programs.

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Diane