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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m just alerting you to a VCAA Notice to Schools, which outlines the curriculum and reporting responsibilities that government and Catholic schools have with respect to AusVELS in 2015. Regarding Digital Technologies (one of two subjects
within the Technologies Learning Area), schools are expected to <b>begin</b> implementing the curriculum
<b>from</b> 2015. This can mean many things for example, a staggered implementation beginning in 2015, with whole-school coverage achieved within three years; a full implementation across a school from 2016 etc. How this done is a school decision. As yet no
‘final date’ for complete implementation has been published.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/correspondence/notices/2014/09.aspx">http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/correspondence/notices/2014/09.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paula<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Paula Christophersen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Curriculum Manager, Digital Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">2 Lonsdale Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">MELBOURNE 3000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">(03) 9032 1724<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">0407 043 110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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