From the Assistant Principal's Desk - Curriculum

Planning Week 

You may have heard your children mention that it’s been “planning week” and heard that they’ve had different teachers throughout the day. That’s because our teaching teams have been busy preparing for Term 3.

At the end of each term, teachers are given a dedicated day to plan collaboratively. This valuable time allows them to reflect on the teaching and learning from the past term, review student work, analyse data, and identify key focus areas for the next term.

It’s also a time to celebrate the many successes and achievements of our students and staff throughout the term.

Semester Two Reports 

The Semester Two reports will be published next week and will be available on Compass.

The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) recently published its revised mathematics curriculum (Mathematics curriculum 2.0). On your child's previous report, the teacher reported against the 3 strands of the achievement standard for mathematics --Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry and Statistics and Probability.

Under the Mathematics curriculum 2.0, your child’s teacher will report against the achievement standard as a whole, providing a single, aggregated score. As the achievement standards reported on have changed, the first time you receive a report under the Mathematics 2.0 curriculum, it will only show achievement and not progress. For all reports after this, progress will be shown against the single achievement standard. 

The VCAA made these changes to help teachers plan their teaching and learning programs in mathematics, giving them more flexibility to support students to link ideas within mathematics and also with other curriculum areas. For further information, refer to the link below.