Reporting to Parents
In Catholic schools, student achievement is recognised and celebrated in many ways throughout the school year; at informal meetings, through awards at school assembly, parent/student/teacher interviews, through class work that is sent home, through class oral presentations and through written reports.
Reporting communicates information that has been obtained from a variety of assessment processes and involves a professional judgment made on a body of evidence about a student’s progress and achievement against a set of clearly articulated standards. In Catholic schools in the Diocese of Cairns the key principles of reporting are:
Schools provide parents/carers with plain language reports twice a year that:
Reporting communicates information that has been obtained from a variety of assessment processes and involves a professional judgment made on a body of evidence about a student’s progress and achievement against a set of clearly articulated standards. In Catholic schools in the Diocese of Cairns the key principles of reporting are:
- Teacher professional judgment is at the heart of reporting student achievement
- Teachers’ knowledge and observation of the students’ progress contributes to this professional judgment.
- Teacher professional judgment is informed by assessment data and referenced to the curriculum framework.
- The teacher develops assessment tasks and identifies the criteria which inform judgments about the child’s achievement.
- Teachers utilise the evidence from a body of work to make a judgment against standards at a point in time.
Schools provide parents/carers with plain language reports twice a year that:
- are readily understandable to those responsible for the student and give an accurate and objective assessment of the student’ s progress and achievement
- include an assessment of the student’s achievement against any available national standards
- include, for subjects studied, an assessment of the student’s achievement:
- reported as A, B, C, D, E (or an equivalent five-point scale), clearly defined against specific learning standards
- relative to the performance of the student’s peer group where peer group is defined as all children at the school who are undertaking the same year level as the child;
Writing a report comment - have you included . . .
Supporting Documentation
- Clear information on what the student has achieved?
- Suggestions for areas of improvement that the student should work on next?
- Information on how the school will help the student to improve?
- Suggestions on how parents can help the student to improve?
Supporting Documentation
- Report Writing Guidelines and Tips
- Report Writing Style Guide
- Blank Comment boxes (500 characters)
- SEL Criteria Sheet
- Reporting Format - When do students receive an alternate report?
SRS Reporting
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