Education Directorate

Recipient

Project Purpose

Amount

ACT Children’s Week

Children’s Week.

$8,000

Government, non-government and not for profit organisations that provide preschool services in the ACT

Preschool Matters Program

The Directorate delivered the Preschool Matters Program to raise community awareness of the importance of quality early childhood education and strengthen parental engagement in children’s learning in the year prior to full time schooling.

The program, delivered through a Deed of Grant to the Canberra Preschool Society, print and online resources and the Preschool Matters Grants Program, demonstrates the ACT Government’s commitment to supporting parent engagement to enhance learning and wellbeing outcomes for all children.

The following services received grants in the 2016-17 grant round:

  • Red Hill School
  • University Preschool and Childcare
  • Snow Gum Early Learning Centre
  • Totom House Multicultural Early Childhood Centre
  • Curtin South Preschool
  • Trinity Christian School
  • Palmerston Primary School
  • Wattle Early Learning Centre
  • Bonython Preschool
  • Emmaus Christian Preschool
  • Wanniassa Preschool Parents Association
  • Communities@Work- Narrabundah Early Childhood Service
  • Kingsford Smith Koori Preschool
  • Guardian Early Learning Group – Gungahlin
  • O’Connor Co-operative School
  • Kingsford Smith Preschool
  • Deakin Preschool Parents Association
  • Belconnen Early Childhood Centre
  • French-Australian Preschool.

$384,374

MusicaViva

Building teacher capacity in the arts.

To develop professional learning workshops in dance and music to ACT teachers which are aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Arts.

$15,000

Ausdance

Building teacher capacity in the arts.

To deliver cross-sectoral professional learning workshops in dance and music to ACT teachers which are aligned with the introduction of Australian Curriculum: Arts.

$15,000

Kulture Break

Building teacher capacity in the arts.

To deliver cross-sectoral professional learning workshops in dance and music to ACT teachers which are aligned with the introduction of Australian Curriculum: Arts.

$15,000

QL2

Building teacher capacity in the arts.

Cross-sectoral project to develop and deliver a dance education pilot project with 10 ACT schools.

$8,000

Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF)

Educational support to schools.

Access to ACTF film and video resources, lesson plans, classroom materials, online resources and professional learning for all sectors in the ACT.

$16,310

Canberra Preschool Society

Grant-in-Aid.

The grant is used for general administrative purposes of the society, including the salary of its Executive Officer.

$55,269

SEE-CHANGE

Parliament of Youth on Sustainability.

Teacher professional learning, resources and engaging activities for students to support the sustainability aspect of the Australian Curriculum.

$8,000

History Teachers Association

2015 National History Challenge.

Chief Minister’s Young Historian of the Year award.

$500

Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia

Promotion of Indonesian Language (MoU).

Provides funding for ten Indonesian Language Teaching Assistants to be placed in ACT public schools to support the Indonesian Program.

$12,000

Kingsford Smith School

Promotion of Chinese Language (MoU).

Provides funding for one Chinese Language Teaching Assistants to be placed at the school to support the Chinese Program.

$5,000

Melrose High School

Promotion of Chinese Language (MoU).

Provides funding for one Chinese Language Teaching Assistants to be placed at the school to support the Chinese Program.

$5,000

Language Networks:

Language Teachers Network – Eight priority languages

  • Chinese ($3,663)
  • French ($5,787)
  • German ($3,087)
  • Indonesian ($3,483)
  • Italian ($3,447)
  • Japanese ($5,067)
  • Korean ($2,559)
  • Spanish ($2,907).

Provides funding support to language teachers in the ACT to undertake professional learning and support teachers with the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: Languages.

$30,000 (Total)