Mr Bainbridge's Bulletin

Semester Two Student Reports

As we approach the middle of this term, our students are busy completing a range of assessments that will assist their teachers in composing end of semester reports. Classroom teachers and specialist staff take a variety of student assessments, classroom work, anecdotal notes and observations of practice into account when completing a report on each child.

Student reporting requirements from the DE for 2024 are:

• Schools are required to formally report student achievement and progress to parents/carers at least twice per school year for each student enrolled at the school.
• The report must be a written report (print or digital), be in an accessible form and be easy for parents/carers to understand.
• Schools must report directly against the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 achievement standards.
• Both student achievement and progress must be included in the report. This means that for each curriculum area taught, the report includes:
  • a teacher judgement(s)
  • an indication of progress since the curriculum area was last reported on
  • a five-point scale.

Some curriculum areas are reported on yearly in Grades 3 – 6 and these are mainly the Humanities areas of the Victorian Curriculum. The Curriculum areas of English and Mathematics are reported on twice a year across all year levels. This will therefore impact the positioning of the hollow dot that indicates when a curriculum area was last reported on.

Our Semester Two student reports will be available to download on Compass from Wednesday 11th December. I encourage all families to download a copy of their child’s report for your own records. When a child completes Grade 6 or they are no longer enrolled at Parkdale Primary School you will cease having access to their profile within our Compass platform.

If you need assistance gaining access to Compass, please let me know.