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ICWA

ANNUAL REPORT
Persian Language School WA
Fiscal Year 2018–2019

1.  General

From 1st July 2019 until 30th June 2020, the operation of Persian Language School was more challenging.

Persian Language School WA was operating at “Collins street centre” in South Perth since 2011. While the venue had a great yard and playground, the place that we could use for holding the classes were only two classroom size rooms and a larger hall. With the increasing number of students in recent years, particularly in 2nd semester of 2019 that we had 54 language learners per term, the venue was no longer suitable.

Since 2018, we have been actively looking to find a suitable place. During 2019, we have increased our efforts on this matter and contacted multiple schools, Department of Education, etc in the search of a place that we can hire for the school. Finally with a great help from Mr Saeed Parvaresh, who is a member of ICWA management team, we have achieved to find, negotiate and sub-lease the “Creative House, 80 Albert St, Osborne Park” from Sideffect Australia. The venue provides more space & facilities, and created opportunity for much more improvement to all aspect of the school. We have started to use the venue from February 2020, not only for accommodating our language school activities, but also the events of other divisions of Iranian Association.

2.  Community Language Teacher Award 2019

Due to her hard work and great contribution to our community language school, Ms Maryam Hosseini, has been nominated for “Community Language Teacher Award 2019” and received the “Certificate of Merit” from Hon Paul Papalia, Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Interests.

3.  Opening Celebration

On the first day of term one this year (8th Feb 2020) in new location, “New Centre Opening and New School Year Celebration” has been held, in which majority of children students and their families, adult learners, teachers, and representatives of WA government are attended.

4.  External Relation

Representatives of Persian Language School WA (Maryam Hosseini and Morteza Tabatabaee), participated at the Community Languages Teacher Award, by the invitation of On behalf of Hon Paul Papalia CSC MLA, Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Interests, and Ethnic Schools Association of WA; on 5/Aug/2019.

Hon Chris Tallentire MLA, Member for Thornlie; Hon David Michael MLA, Member for Balcatta; Sara Saberi, Councillor for City of Canning; Moya McLauchlan, from Community Languages WA; Liz Behjat, State Manager of Leading Age Services Australia; Ashleigh Brand, Project Leader Kaleidoscope Initiative, City of Stirling; Nirmal Singh, Kaleidoscope Project Officer, City of Stirling; Franco Smargiassi, President of WA Multicultural Association, and Rodney Bridge, the Founder of Sideffect Australia, have been attended at the Opening Celebration of Iranian Association new centre (80 Albert St, Osborne Park) on 8th Feb 2020.

5.  COVID-19 Pandemic

PLSWA was one of the first schools in WA, taking action on the issue of COVID-19 pandemic. From third week in February until mid-March, while school continued to operate as normal, extra precautionary measures has been put in place and announced. These reinforced precautionary measures were:

  • Disinfecting of all hard surfaces including doors, handles, tables, chairs, etc.
  • Signage reinforcing health guideline like hand washing & sneezing/coughing etiquette.
  • Avoidance of any person with cold or flu-like symptoms.
  • Encouraging teachers and staff to reconsider travel to high or moderate risk destinations, as recommended by the Australian Department of Health.
  • Advising anyone with flu-like symptoms to self-isolate & seek medical advice.

We also prepared our online system to run all our language classes online (LIVE, REAL-TIME), ensuring there would be no disruption to our students’ learning, and finally due to the risk of COVID-19 from 28th March all classes switched to be online for few remaining session of term 1 and also the entire term 2.

Note: After easing of the coronavirus restrictions, PLSWA physical classes have been resumed from beginning of term 3 on 25th July 2020.

6.  Completing PIP Stage One

The Pathways to Improvement Program (PIP) is a program for the development of quality teaching and operations in community language schools, runs by the Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI), Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. PIP provides community language schools with tools to assess their effectiveness and progress towards best practice in the management and delivery of language learning. By PIP final stage, the school will be recognised by the “School Curriculum and Standards Authority” to teach ATAR courses.

 


Yours sincerely
Morteza Tabatabaee
Principal
Persian Language School WA

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