The Education Directorate provides assistance and grants to organisations promoting participation of parents and citizens in school communities in the ACT.
The directorate has a range of specific partnerships with business and community groups that support education and celebrate with excellence among ACT public schools. In this reporting period, programs from major partnerships included:
- Capital Chemist College scholarship program for year 11 ACT public college students – 30 scholarships awarded.
- Country Women’s Association scholarship program for all ACT year 11 students – six scholarships awarded.
- Paperchain Bookstore Manuka sponsors the Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge for all ACT schools and Year 10 Excellence Awards for ACT public schools.
- The Fred Hollows Foundation award program for all primary school students. The Directorate helps to promote the award program to schools.
- School Volunteer Program ACT (SVPACT) recruits, trains and supports volunteer mentors who work with students on a range of activities. Approximately 140 volunteer mentors work in 42 ACT public schools.
Recipient | Project Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
ACT Council of Parent’s and Citizens’ Associations Inc. | The Directorate provides an annual grant to the ACT Council of Parent’s and Citizens’ Associations to facilitate consultation with parents and citizens with an interest in public schooling. The funding is provided under a Deed of Grant from 1 July 2014 until 30 July 2019. The Association uses the financial assistance to:
| $139,492 |
Association of Parents and Friends of ACT Schools (APFACTS) | The Directorate provides an annual grant to the Association of Parents and Friends of ACT Schools (APFACTS) to facilitate consultation with parents and citizens with an interest in ACT non-Government schooling. The funding is provided under a Deed of Grant from 1 July 2013 until 30 June 2018. The Association uses the financial assistance to:
| $53,838 |
ACT Children’s Week | Supports ACT Children’s Week promotion | $8,000 |
Preschool Matters Program
The Directorate delivered the Preschool Matters Program to strengthen parent engagement in children’s learning in the year prior to full-time schooling to enhance learning and wellbeing outcomes for young children. Eighteen ACT preschool services (Government, non-government and not for profit organisations) received grants in the 2017-18 grant round to run local initiatives.
Recipient | Project Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Ainslie Baker Gardens Preschool | Indigenous gardens and artwork. | $15,000 (Total) |
Blue Gum Community School | The Art of Play: A facilitated arts play workshop. | |
Communities@Work – Taylor Childcare and Education Centre | Six Experience Boxes. | |
Duffy Preschool | Duffy Indigenous Garden. | |
Fraser Preschool | Community Connections. | |
Gilmore Preschool | Growing Together. | |
Giralang Preschool | Shared Literacy Space. | |
Gordon Preschool | Stories Matter. | |
Macgregor Preschool | Same Story, Different Words. | |
Manuka Occasional Childcare Association | Community of Learning and Transition Program. | |
Maribyrnong Preschool | Connecting with Culture. | |
Pearce Preschool Parents Association | The Harmony Garden Project. | |
Reid Preschool | Indigenous gardens and artwork. | |
Richardson Koori Preschool | Freshen’ it up Program. | |
Weetangera Preschool | Same Story, Different Words. | |
Canberra Preschool Society | Grant-in-Aid. The grant is used for general administrative purposes of the society, including the salary of its Executive Officer, in promoting the importance of parent engagement in children’s learning in the year prior to full-time schooling. | $51,375 |
Curriculum Grants and Sponsorship
Recipient | Project Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Musica Viva | 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 Dance | Building teacher capacity in the arts. Cross-sectoral project to develop and deliver a dance education pilot project with 10 ACT schools. | $15,000 |
History Teachers Association | National History Challenge Prize encourages students to engage in research and inquiry based learning to discover history of the world through an examination of an event or person in terms of a theme. The prize winner, the best entry in the ACT receives a medal, prize money and attends the National Ceremony each November. | $500.00 |
Australian Children’s TV Foundation (ACTF) | Education 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 |
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. | $8,800 |
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 |
Language Networks | Language Teachers Network 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) |
ANU Extension Program | The Directorate provides a grant of $120,000 per annum to the ANU Extension Program to support students across the full range of extension subjects. The Australian Government is the primary source of funding for the ANU Extension Program through the Commonwealth Grants Scheme. | $120,000 |