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Volume 52.9 December 2023

From the President 

President’s address: November State Council Conference

Read the full version of SSTUWA President Matt Jarman’s address to November State Council Conference, held on 10-11 November.

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From the Senior Vice President 

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Principals and school leaders are overwhelmingly reporting they are burnt out from workload, and more than half said in the SSTUWA State of our Schools Survey that they had concerns about their personal health and wellbeing.

Features

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Have you noticed a difference to the packaging of your Western Teacher magazine? Introducing biobased, biodegradable and home-compostable bio-film – a greener alternative to petroleum-based mail wrap, supplied by local Perth company, Vanguard Media Group.
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Climate change education is increasingly seen as an essential part of schooling.
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In June this year, SSTUWA coordinator of the schools organiser team, Natalie Swinbourn, joined 275 young leaders from Commonwealth countries in Banff, Canada for a life-changing experience.
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According to the federal government’s 2023 Closing the Gap report, 34.3 per cent of Indigenous preschoolers were starting school developmentally on track, compared to almost 55 per cent of non-Indigenous Australian students as of 2021.
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The 2023 Women’s Conference was held recently at the SSTUWA. This conference provided an opportunity for women educators to share, connect, learn and be inspired by each other.
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A new report calls for an end to the school funding crisis that has left public schools in every state and the NT underfunded while private schools are overfunded by hundreds of millions of dollars each year.