This project supporting schools with limited systemic support to implement the NSSF came to an end on 31 December 2004. Please contact the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) in Canberra, or your school system/sector for further information.



Don't forget that you can download our Powerpoint and Workbook (see links to the right).

Both of these have been updated and now include a new way of depicting and understanding the Framework. This adapts the Health Promoting Schools Model that many schools are already familiar with, to the NSSF. You will find this diagram on page 12 of the Workbook. This way of looking at it is very helpful in terms of taking a whole school approach to the NSSF. The Powerpoint provides an animated version of this approach. You are free to use both.

An increasing number of schools are involving all their staffs in the mapping process, by using the following simple process.

Each of the outcomes statements (see link to the right) are written at the top of a large piece of butcher's paper, and displayed in the staff room. The group responsible for the NSSF writes under each statement the legal, systemic and organisational requirements that are relevant to that statement. Staff members are then given the opportunity over the following week or two to add to the list from their professional perspectives and experiences. This ensures that the school has an accurate and very comprehensive map of what is already in place. Most people are very pleasantly surprised when they see the extent to which the school already implements the NSSF.

It has been confirmed that schools are required to implement the NSSF from 2005, and that the first report will be due in 2006.

At this stage reporting will be purely descriptive, through MCEETYA's annual National Report on Schooling in Australia - the ANR. There is no general prescriptive reporting template, though education systems may develop their own.

Click here to go to our DIY (do it yourself) guide to the NSSF.