Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Written reports for all students for semester 1 are being finalized and will be sent out to parents in the last week of this term.
The student reports will be presented in the A4 format, but there has been a slight change to the report presentation to provide you will more information each student’s achievements, areas of growth and areas of challenge.
Teachers use a range of different assessment strategies and tools to gather evidence of student’s achievement with reference to the achievement standards in the Australian Curriculum. Based on the evidence, teachers make judgement to decide which grade matches the standard your child has achieved. Your child’s attendance is recorded on the report as attendance is recognized as an important indicator of student wellbeing, engagement and achievement. A student who is absent from school or continually arrives late to school often achieve lower grades than those who arrive at school on time and attend school regularly.
Comments will be provided for all subject areas to provide you with additional information on what the students are learning and their achievements in all curriculum areas. You will also see that the Personal and Social Capabilities are grouped according to our school values: - Respect, Achievement, Integrity and Sustainability. This allows us to integrate these into our everyday routines and daily practice at school, home and in the community.
Reception to Year 3 student’s scores will be provided for Reading Recovery levels (RR), Oxford Sight Words and Jolly Phonic Sounds. Each of these will have different scores depending on the benchmark for each year level as indicated below:
| Rec | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
| Reading Recovery | RR level 5 | RR level 15 | RR level 23 | RR level 30 |
| Oxford Sight Words | 50 Tricky words 100 words | Read 200 words | Read 300 words | Read 404 words |
| Jolly Phonics Sounds | Read 26 sounds | Write 42 sounds |
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| Jolly Phonics Sounds | refers to how many sounds your child can read write. |
| Oxford Sight Words | refers to how many high frequency sight words your child can read. |
| Running Records Level | refers to your child's reading level with comprehension. |
Achievement
A | Excellent achievement of what is expected at year level |
| B | Good achievement of what is expected at year level |
| C | Satisfactory achievement of what is expected at year level |
| D | Partial achievement of what is expected at year level |
| E | Minimal achievement of what is expected at year level |
| N/A | Not assessed at this time |
Effort
| + | Excellent |
| 0 | Satisfactory |
| - | Minimal |
Assessment and feedback is important part of the review process and links with the External School Review scheduled for our school early next term. These review cycles play an important role in our improvement cycle. They ask us to look deeper at our school, our pedagogy, programs, practice, our students, resources and provide us with important feedback which supports us as we strive for continuous improvement.
Everyone plays an important part in the external review and we are seeking your feedback by asking you to click on the link and complete the survey. Your comments will be added to the comments gathered from staff and students to assist us in our improvement cycle.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GR5W5DF
Kind Regards,
Sharon Willoughby
Acting Principal
