 Hello I'm Rob Randall CEO of Akara. This is my first podcast since taking up this role and I hope you find this one and those which are to follow of interest and of value. I'm really excited as I take up this role because of our curriculum assessment and reporting programs. I'm excited because I know those programs can make a difference to young people's learning and I look forward to working with you to deliver on that goal. I'm also very proud to take this leadership role in an organisation which in a relatively short period of time has achieved a lot. And I'd like to commend the staff at Akara and all those that we've worked with across the country because of the achievements that we've been able to make in that time period. By the end of this year we'll have an Australian curriculum available to be taught across the country. For the first time all young Australians will be learning from a national curriculum and on the basis of that national curriculum we now have professional development and teaching and learning resources being developed for the nation that teachers wherever they are across the country can draw upon to improve learning opportunities for children in their care. The national assessment program literacy and numeracy or NAPLAN continues to provide nationally comparable data that principals and others in schools are using to reflect upon and plan for improvement in the vitally important areas of literacy and numeracy. Recently we conducted NAPLAN and I'd like to thank principals and teachers for the efforts that they made in making that a very successful program. I look forward to working with all of those people and people beyond schools as we seek to improve the assessment program primarily through the move to online assessment and you will see at the end of this year how we're going to do that through our move to civics and citizenship online. The My School website continues to be a resource that people within and beyond schools are using to reflect upon and plan for improvement in their schools as well. I hear many stories about how principals are using that resource with their school community to drive school improvement and I look forward to hearing more of them but I'm also very open to hearing feedback about how we can improve My School and feedback about how we can improve our curriculum assessment and reporting programs because if we can work together to improve those we can realise Akara's mission to make a difference for young people in their learning across the country. Thank you.