PRIMARY REPORTS
At the end of this term, you will receive your child’s academic report for Semester 2, reflecting their performance against the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standard for each subject. The teachers have have given much consideration to the grades and comments and taken into account a wide variety of evidence. For your information, the grades awarded for each subject can be interpreted in the following way:
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A |
The student is able to successfully and independently complete unfamiliar tasks where they have applied their knowledge and understanding. |
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B |
The student is working beyond the expected level of knowledge and understanding for the cohort and is beginning to demonstrate this through exploring some unfamiliar tasks. |
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C |
The student has achieved a level of knowledge and understanding at the expected level for their cohort. This is demonstrated through familiar tasks. |
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D |
The student is working towards the standard of knowledge and understanding for the cohort, but requires additional support at this stage. |
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E |
The students requires significant support at this stage to complete tasks that are appropriate to the cohort. |
The effort rating, learning habits and general comment offer information as to the skills and dispositions your child has demonstrated throughout Semester 2. These may provide a starting point for a discussion relating to ‘the more you put in, the more you get out’. Students are encouraged to become more active participants in their learning rather than passive recipients, and to understand that having a growth mindset can allow you to reach for and attain goals… if you are prepared to put in the effort. It is also important to see your child as an individual, rather than comparing them to siblings or others in the cohort. If your child is growing in their learning, this is cause for celebration regardless of the starting point or the level achieved.
However, it is also important to remember that an academic report is only one way to measure the ‘success’ of a semester and in some respects it may be seen as limited. To name just a few things, each and every child on the Primary Campus this Semester has experienced highs and lows, learned about how to negotiate and renegotiate friendships, has grown in their spiritual understanding of what it means to be a student at a Catholic school, has felt compassion in regards to the plight of others and acted to do something about it, has felt frustration when aspects of a subject seemed too complex to understand and demonstrated resilience in order to overcome those problems. Many of them are able to explain what it means to be ‘in the learning pit’ and describe strategies for getting themselves out. Educating students for life in the 21st Century is more than imparting knowledge; it is about developing a creative thinker, a problem solver, an effective communicator, having a sense of resilience, establishing respectful relationships and building a strength of character to stand up for what they believe to name but a few things.