Receiving your child’s mid-year school report can be quite nerve-wracking especially if you know they’ve had some challenges during the first half of the year. And lets be honest, we all struggled with the way the 2022 school year started!
So it is important to read the report with a little perspective... did your child start with 2 weeks of online learning? Did your Reception expect to have a big brother or sister walking in the gate with them on their first day? Was your child absent with COVID? Was their teacher absent with COVID? Did your child have to isolate while you had COVID? For some families it has been all of the above! While we have tried to minimise the impact of these factors, they may have resulted in missed learning, incomplete assessment tasks or limited evidence of learning.
Regardless of their results, the important thing with any report or assessment is to:
If you haven’t already, talk to your child about their report – after all, it is about them as a learner!
Together you can discuss where improvements can be made and what help you may need to provide to support this. Depending on their overall results, there are different ways to approach giving feedback and actions that you can consider for Terms 3 and 4.
What can you say to encourage them? Try something like
- “Congratulations! It looks like the new approaches you’re trying with your homework are really paying off. Keep up the good work.”
- “Good work! What do you think helped you improve? Do you think the same approach could help you improve in other subjects?”
- “We need to set some clearer goals for you next term so you have something to work towards.”
- “I’m quite surprised by this report, I saw how hard you worked. Maybe it’s a good idea if we speak to your teacher to develop some new strategies for next term.”
- “I’m really concerned about these results. Take some time to think about what your teachers and I can do to support you and we’ll come up with a plan.”
- Subject X and subject Y look good, but I’m a bit concerned about the others. Let’s talk about what we can do to turn those subjects around.”
If you are worried about your child’s results in their mid-year school report, our teachers can help. You can reach out via Seesaw to make an appointment to meet with the teacher next term.
We hope that you enjoy reading your child’s Mid Year Report when they bring it out of their bags tonight and celebrating their personal achievements for Term 1 and 2. Reports reflect your child's learning growth so far this year. We encourage you to ask your child to share more about their learning with you.
