As part of our continuous school improvement process, Unley Primary School will be involved in an external school review with a Department for Education review team in Week 10 of this term.

The purpose of external school reviews is to support us to raise achievement, sustain high performance and provide quality assurance to build confidence in public schools. All public schools are generally externally reviewed every 3 years.

The focus of the external school review is to evaluate our school’s performance. The review team includes a review officer and a review principal. Our school’s review will take place over three days, from Tuesday 2^nd to Thursday 4^th of April.

The review team will identify aspects of our school’s improvement that have been verified through the review processes, as well as the improvements that we need to make in the future.

During the external school review, some students, parents & caregivers, governing council members and staff will be asked to provide information to the review team in a number of ways. These include:

• group discussions (with students or staff or parents)
• meetings (parent forum, staff meeting)
• visits into classrooms.

If you do not want your child to participate in a small group discussion with the review team, please let me know as soon as possible via return email and I will ensure they are not selected for this part of the review.

As part of the review, parents and caregivers are invited to participate in a parent forum at UPS on Thursday 4 April from 8.50am. You will have the opportunity to meet as a group with a member of the review team in the UPS staffroom (Campus 1, main building) for approximately 50 minutes. RSVP is not required.

If you would like more information about any aspect of the review, please get in touch with Amy by phoning the front office.

We appreciate everyone’s support and time in helping us with this external school review process.