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Minister for Schools meets

with Greek Community in Adelaide

 March 2011

The Federal Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, the Hon Peter Garrett AM MP, attended an afternoon tea on 12 February hosted by the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia to outline the Federal Government's progress in developing the new national curriculum and to meet South Australian teachers of Modern Greek.

The visit comes following the recent release of the draft shape paper for languages in the new national curriculum, which included Modern Greek as one of the languages to be chosen for inclusion. Consultation on the draft has opened until 7 April 2011.

In addressing the audience, which included representatives from South Australian Greek community organisations as well as representatives of the Greek media, the Minister acknowledged the campaign run by the Greek community to highlight the importance of Greek to the national curriculum and said he was pleased ACARA had taken those representations into account. 

The Member for Hindmarsh, Steve Georganas MP said that he was delighted that the Minister had offered to brief the community on the progress of the national curriculum and to meet local teachers who had committed much of their time to the development of the language in recent years.

“Everyone in the Greek community should be very proud of what we have achieved by working together, but we need to keep in mind that this paper is simply a draft. That’s why I encourage everyone to visit the ACARA website before 7 April to have your say about why, and how, Modern Greek should be taught in the new national curriculum.”

The draft shape paper and information on how to make a submission is available on the ACARA website at http://www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/languages.html.

The Cyprus
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