The Language Teacher Network - Lower North Coast will hold its Term 4 meeting on Thursday 24 October. The meeting will run for 2 hours and contribute to 2.5 hours of registered professional learning on Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages. To receive the registered hours, participants will need to:
- complete a short pre-task
- attend the meeting
- complete a post-task.

All languages teachers living and/or working in the area are welcome to attend. DoE teachers are eligible to receive the registered hours; non-DoE teachers can include their meeting as Teacher Identified hours. 

Date: Thursday 24 October 2019
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Venue: Camden Haven High School
Session name: Lower North Coast – Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages

For further details please contact James Rourke or Evia Kyriacou.

The new Hindi, Macedonian, Persian, Punjabi and Tamil K–10 syllabuses and Course Performance Descriptors are now available on the NESA website. The syllabuses are available to download as PDF and Word documents.
Schools will begin implementing the new syllabuses from Term 1 2020. Additional advice about implementation is available on the syllabus pages.
For more information, contact:
Melissa Gould-Drakeley
Inspector, Languages
Melissa.Gould-Drakeley@nesa.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8152

Registrations are open for substantive and relieving Head Teachers subscribed to the Hunter Head Teacher learning network to attend the Hunter Head Teacher Professional Learning network meeting. One language teacher from each school may also attend.
 
Date: Thursday 24 October
Time: 9am-3pm
Venue: Kurri Kurri TAFE – Hunter Valley Hotel Academy McLeod Road, Kurri Kurri NSW 2327
 
To register, please refer to the attached agenda.
 
Registrations close at 5pm, 26 September 2019.
 
For further information, please contact Rebeca Tamas.

One of our LANG Professional Learning Leaders and network leaders has been recognised as one of the state’s best teachers.
 
23 teachers across the state were awarded with the highest levels of accreditation at a prestigious ceremony in Sydney earlier this week, including Amanda Singh from The Ponds High School.
 
Member for Riverstone Kevin Conolly said the awards recognise highly effective, innovative and exemplary teaching practice.
 
Amanda has been recognised as a Highly Accomplished Teacher. She is one of 15 teachers to have achieved this level of accreditation in NSW this year.
 
“Mrs Singh really represents the cream of the crop; she has gone above and beyond the daily demands of the job to achieve excellence in her profession,” Mr Conolly said.
 
“Mrs Singh is using her expertise to lift the prospects of the children in our community, and I am proud and thankful for the work she is doing for our school system.”
 
“I want to congratulate Mrs Singh on her achievements and thank her for the work she does in our school system”.
 
Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell said that teachers who achieve this level of accreditation are invaluable assets for their school communities as teaching experts, mentors and leaders.
 
We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Amanda!

(Adapted from the department's media release, 11.09.19)

The Languages and Culture team has published new resources to support teachers of Stage 4 in implementing the new syllabuses.

All our resources are housed on our website: education.nsw.gov.au/languages 

We have published the following resources.

French

• - Stage 4 scope and sequence
• - Stage 4 sample assessment task
• - Sample assessment schedule
• - Stage 4 unit starter

Japanese

• - Stage 4 scope and sequence
• - Stage 4 sample assessment task
• - Sample assessment schedule
• - Stage 4 unit starter

Korean

• - Stage 4 scope and sequence
• - Sample assessment schedule

Spanish

• - Stage 4 scope and sequence
• - Sample assessment schedule

Remember, all K-10 language syllabuses (2017 and later) are underpinned by the Languages K-10 Framework so it's worth looking at materials for all languages, not just the one/s you teach.

We also have sample unit of work templates, programming guidelines and a planning tool available on our Stages 4 and 5 landing page, under the heading 'Programming'.

Our support continues and we will add more materials as they become available.

The consultation for Chinese/Japanese/Korean in Context draft syllabuses ends 8 September (this Sunday).
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NESA is seeking feedback on the Performance Band Descriptors on the following matters:

• - Is outcome 6.2 covered in the PBD or is it better represented in the suggested changes in pink on the attached document?
• - Does dot point 4 of the PBD align clearly to the outcomes?

 
NESA appreciates your feedback so have your say and complete the survey online or submit a written response to:
- Belinda Munro-Laylim for Japanese and Korean in Context
- Gianna Pagni for Chinese in Context.