New Victorian Mathematics Curriculum

All Catholic schools use the Victorian Curriculum to plan and assess learning of students from Foundation to Year 6. This curriculum is currently being revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current research. The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) recently published its revised Mathematics curriculum (Mathematics Version 2.0).

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.

All Victorian schools will start using Mathematics Version 2.0 in 2024 or 2025. At St Joseph’s School, Crib Point, we are using the revised Mathematics curriculum for student learning and assessment from Semester 1, 2024.

What does this mean for reporting?

As the curriculum has changed it will look different when your child’s progress is shared in our school reports. In your child’s previous report, the teacher reported against the three strands of the achievement standard for Mathematics (Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability). Under the Mathematics Version 2.0 curriculum, your child’s teacher will report against the achievement standard as a whole, providing a single, aggregated score. At St Joseph’s we have also chosen to create a table to share the strengths and areas of focus for some of the six new strands in Mathematics. An example of this is below:

As the achievement standards reported on have changed, the first time you receive a report under the Mathematics Version 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.

If you have any queries about your child’s report, please contact your classroom teacher or myself via email at sjackson@sjcribpoint.catholic.edu.au

Home Learning Page!

To ensure parents share our understanding of learning and can better support their children at home St Joseph’s School provides a Home Learning Portal.

Please click on the link below to visit your child’s Home Leaning Page to stay up to date with their learning.

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