Student reports are a key part of how we communicate your child’s progress and achievement throughout the year.
This term on Wednesday 18th of June, our school report will be sent home with your child. It’s important to take note of the grades on that report, as this will give you an understanding of how your child is achieving against the at-level expectation outlined on the Australian Curriculum.
My teacher marks my learning and it tells me how good I am going.
You’ll also notice on school reports in the English and Mathematics area, there’ll be a next step written for your child. This has been written by the class teacher and gives you direct information about what your child’s next step is to improve their grade.
After I receive my report, I go over it with my family. It tells me what I have done really well and what I need to improve on.
Thankfully, at the bottom of the English and Mathematics comments, is the next step. The next step tells me what I need to improve on, which could futurely be my next goal in class.
And, my little brick thing here tells me what I can improve on. The things that are highlighted, I can stay like that, but the things where they’re not highlighted, I can work on those.
It’s important to understand how grades are allocated. Our teachers don’t just use one form of assessment to form their final grade. They use a range of different assessments around that learning area. They complete a post assessment at the end of each concept that has been taught. They use their bookwork, classwork, observations, and class discussions to form the final grade.
I think it’s also important to understand that we’re continually driving conversations with our teachers around the students in their class and how they’re going.
We use data to inform a range of academic needs for students. This involves staff looking at cohort needs and providing activities based around these.
Staff also interact with our school data wall. We look at trends in student learning and make adjustments in our teaching to address areas of concern, but also areas of strength. Students interact with data folders weekly and create goals based around their own learning. This allows students to really own their learning and acknowledge when they have achieved a goal and make sure they’re tracking that as well.
I’m going to show you my goals. I’m above the one star and two stars, so I’m doing three star. And my teacher is telling me that I’m doing really good learning in my Writing, Math, and English.
