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- Welcome to St. Joseph's
School in Kunururra.

Today, we respectfully acknowledge
the traditional owners of this land.

The land of the Miriuwung
Gajerrong people.

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- The school communicates the NCCD
by initially having a case
meeting with the teacher,
the parents, some of the leadership,
and that's just to ensure that
we're getting the information
from the parents, first,
about the needs for the child,
and understanding how we can best support
their needs at school.

From there, we explain to the parents

what that data collection is all about.

And about how it's there to help us
meet the needs of the child.


On the individual education plan,
there's also a consent for that data
to be used and collected.

So, all parents are aware of that,
and it's explained to them in a way
that they're going to
be able to understand.

For some of our families,
we also have an Aboriginal
teaching assistant sit
in on those meetings.

If a family wants to explain
in Miriuwung language,
that then can be communicated back to us
as to what is their concerns,
and what they would like to see
on that individual education plan.

When engaging the
families in the community,
we visit them to share good news.

So, things that children
are doing really well,
and things that are working
really well for us at school.

We'll also go out if we have concerns.
And likewise, if parents
can express concerns,
we'll follow back a family to their home,
so that they can comfortably discuss that.

We often find that some
of our families don't have
the opportunity to get into school,
So, it's trying to bridge that gap.

So, that we can have those
conversations when needed.

- The Aboriginal teachers
assistants play a huge part
in building the relationships
with the families.


Then they go out into the
community, get information,
find out about families, what's happening.

- Our ATAs are really good in making sure
the families feel comfortable,
and if there's additional
language barriers,
our ATAs are able to help us there
to communicate, maybe,
in Aboriginal English,
what we're trying to get across.

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