Assistant Principal 

Semester Reporting

We are excited to share some important updates regarding student reporting to align with the introduction of the Victorian Curriculum 2.0.

Mathematics Victorian Curriculum 2.0

On your child's previous report, teachers 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 with other curriculum areas. 

All other curriculum areas Victorian Curriculum Version 2.0

The curriculum updates for all other curriculum areas of Victorian Curriculum Version 2.0 have kept the same structure for achievement standards. Therefore, all other curriculum areas will show progress over the semester.

Other changes to Semester Reports at Valkstone Primary School:

• For each curriculum area, you will see a list of skills and understandings that have been taught throughout the semester. Students will be marked against a five-point scale (Exceeding, Highly developed, Established, Developing, Not yet evident) for each of the skill statements. 

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• Semester Reports will include a revised list of attitudes and behaviours, and students will be marked against each of these on a four-point scale (Consistently, Usually, Sometimes, Rarely). 

   

• Semester Reports will continue to include a general teacher comment, however, there will no longer be a teacher comment for each curriculum area. 

Semester One Reports will be available for parents to view and download via Compass on Thursday 3rd July at 4:00 p.m.

If you have any questions regarding semester reports, please reach out to your child’s classroom teacher.

Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent-Teacher Interviews will be held in Term 3 Week 2 on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th July. 

You will be able to book in for a parent-teacher interview from Monday 30th June at 4:00 p.m.

If you need any support booking a parent-teacher interview, please contact the school office.