Assessment, Reporting & Work Practices

Victorian Curriculum

Assessment and reporting in Years 7 to 10 is completed according to Victorian Curriculum requirements. Students receive a percentage assessment for specific work requirements and a Victorian Curriculum level that is consistent in all schools state-wide.

Continuous Reporting

In order to ensure our families are better informed about their children’s progress, our school uses a continuous (ongoing) model of reporting. This approach means that parents and carers can access teacher feedback on their children’s work throughoutthe semester, rather than waiting for a report at the end.  Every parent, carer or student is issued with a unique login and password so that they can access the Compass Student Management System to view the reports. 

BSC provides three forms of feedback to students and their families :

Work Practice Reports 

Work Practices are the school’s method for assessing student effort and commitment to work both at school and at home. 

• Work Practice Reports are made available via Compass during Week 6 of each term. 
• The Work Practices Rubrics describe the Work Practices that BSC students are expected to demonstrate in order to advance their learning.  Open the attachment below to investigate the details of the General Work Practices Rubric, Vocational Major Work Practices Rubric and the Instrumental Music Work Practices Rubric
• Parents and carers will receive a reminder to access their children’s Work Practice Reports via Compass Newsfeed email alert.

Parent Teacher Student Conferences 

• Parent Teacher Student (PTS) Conferences are conducted towards the end of Term 1 and Term 3. 
• PTS conferences provide an opportunity for parents and carers to discuss their child's learning with their teachers
• Students are expected to attend these conferences. 
• Parents and Carers will receive a Compass Newsfeed message and email alert inviting them to book timeslots.

Learning Tasks

• Students complete multiple Learning Tasks in each subject every semester, but not all are linked to the reporting cycle. 
• A list of reportable tasks are visible to students and parents through Compass. 
• Other tasks that are not linked to the reporting cycle are available in the Microsoft Teams platform and are visible to students. Every class has a Teams set up and students can submit work digitally through Teams Assignments.  

Throughout the term, Teachers report on each Learning Task as the task becomes due for assessment.

• A percentage mark is awarded for each task that is linked to the reporting cycle.
• Feedback on the task is provided in one of the following two ways; a rubric uploaded to Compass, or a comment on the Learning task in Compass.