School Curriculum and Standards Authority

K to 6 Circulars – Edition 6, July 2025

Teaching and Learning

Pre-primary to Year 6: Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies additional curriculum familiarisation professional learning opportunities

Contact
Chris Kelley (08) 9273 6750
Chris.Kelley@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) is offering additional in-person workshops and online meetings to support schools with familiarisation with the Western Australian Curriculum for Pre-primary to Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies.

These professional learning opportunities will take place throughout August, September and October and are a repeat of the Semester 1 in-person workshops and online meetings hosted by the Authority.

The Authority will use Webex as the delivery platform for the online meetings and registrants will need to have downloaded the application prior to the meeting in order to participate.

More than 1100 Pre-primary to Year 6 educators have already attended these professional learning opportunities which provide guidance and support schools in preparing for the implementation of the revised curriculum in 2026.

More information regarding these professional learning opportunities is available at https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/resources/revised-western-australian-curriculum-familiarisation.

Pre-primary to Year 6: Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies online curriculum familiarisation workshops for regional and remote schools

Contact
Chris Kelley (08) 9273 6750
Chris.Kelley@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) is offering online workshops to support regional and remote schools with familiarisation with the Western Australian Curriculum for Pre‑primary to Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies.

These online professional learning opportunities are designed for teachers who were unable to attend the in-person curriculum familiarisation workshops scheduled earlier in the year.

The Authority will use Webex as the delivery platform and registrants will need to have downloaded the application prior to the meeting to participate.

The purpose of the online workshop is to:

familiarise schools with the support materials on the Authority website
outline key curriculum changes
provide guidance to enable schools to become familiar with the revised curriculum and align programs accordingly
engage in activities that will explore the curriculum revisions and strategies for sharing this information within a school context.

The Authority is providing teacher relief payments for schools across the systems/sector for up to two teachers for each half-day workshop in each learning area. A digital presentation pack, which can be used to facilitate professional learning at the school level, will also be sent to participants after the workshop.

More information is available at https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/resources/revised-western-australian-curriculum-familiarisation.

General Information

ABLES Assessment Tool

Contact
Maureen Lorimer (08) 9273 6397 [Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday]
Maureen.Lorimer@scsa.wa.edu.au

The ABLES assessment tool is included in the Abilities Based Learning Education, Western Australia (ABLEWA) resources for teachers to support their work with students with disability and additional needs who are unable to access the Pre‑primary to Year 10 curriculum. The ABLES assessment tool is available to all Western Australian schools at https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/resources/ablewa/getting-started-with-ablewa.

The assessment tool is made up of nine assessments that are completed online by a teacher. Together, the assessments give a comprehensive picture of a student’s strengths and abilities and capture important indicators of student proficiency and understanding, providing explicit guidance material and resources that will support teachers to effectively plan and teach students based on their individual learning needs. The assessments have been designed to describe skills and abilities that teachers can observe in everyday school and classroom contexts and interactions with students.

Administrators are advised that minor updates have been made to the recommended protocols when using the ABLES assessment tool. The updates are indicated in bold below.

Keep a record of the password used for the generic school email username, for ongoing access by users, e.g. a school leader leaves the school.
When creating a teacher listing, use their education email address as the username,
e.g. @education, @cewa, @ais.
When creating classes, use year groups rather than room numbers or names, e.g. Year 1, Year 2.
Do not add sub-groups to the year levels.
When adding a student, include their legal given name and surname and their Western Australian student number (WASN).
(Note: generally, the WASN will match the year group, e.g. in 2025 the WASN for Kindergarten is 44, Pre-primary is 43, Year 1 is 42 etc.)
Do not add the calendar year to the naming protocol as this will result in a large number of classes over time, plus the possible duplication of student names.

Further information is available in Circular 2, published in February 2025 at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/kto6-circulars/edition-2-february-2025, regarding the manual update of classes. Additionally, if only a small number of students are registered in the assessment tool for your school, you may choose to move each individual student up to the next year level.

Contact ablewa@scsa.wa.edu.au if you have any questions regarding this process.