Lauries Learning Hub - Diverse Learning Faculty
St Laurence’s Diverse Learning Faculty supports students with diverse learning needs including disability, English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) and students identified as High Potential Learners (HPL). Guided by the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) and Disability Standards for Education (2005), the Diverse Learning Faculty fosters meaningful connections and partnerships with students and their families. As a College, we strive to provide an equitable education to all students enrolled regardless of their ability, disability, or barriers to learning.
We educate a range of students, many of whom have a diagnosis, imputed disability, or barriers to learning. The identification and management of these students is crucial in ensuring that they are appropriately supported through their educational journey at St Laurence’s College. One element of this identification is to comply with census and data collection points.
Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).
Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:
- Year of schooling, category of disability, level of adjustment provided
This information assists schools to:
- Formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
- Consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
- Develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.
The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.
The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy. Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal.
If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the Diverse Learning Faculty.
MR ALEX PEACE
Head of Faculty - Diverse Learning / Case Manager - Year 7