On Monday 14 September, the Victorian Government announced a series of landmark reforms to build and define Victoria as the Education State.

The announcements included a focus on strong school leadership, better teaching, more collaboration between teachers and schools and resources targeted at student need.

Next year all government schools – including ours – will receive extra needs-based funding for to better respond to every student's needs.

You can find out how much extra funding every government school will receive next year on the Find Your School's Equity Funding Amount website: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/educationstate/Pages/schoolbudget.aspx

On Monday 14 September, the Victorian Government announced a series of landmark reforms to build and define Victoria as the Education State.

The announcements included a focus on strong school leadership, better teaching, more collaboration between teachers and schools and resources targeted at student need.

Next year all government schools – including ours – will receive extra needs-based funding for to better respond to every student's needs.

You can find out how much extra funding every government school will receive next year on the Find Your School's Equity Funding Amount website: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/educationstate/Pages/schoolbudget.aspx

Our teachers will receive training to implement the new Victorian Curriculum, which will include new subjects like digital coding and respectful relationships.

The government also set new state-wide education targets – goals for our students in areas like maths, reading, science, the arts, resilience and critical and creative thinking.

This is an exciting time for Victorian schools, and these new initiatives will inform our planning for 2016.

I encourage you to visit the Department's website to find out more about the Education State initiatives: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/educationstate