TLSC Promotion Policy

Understanding the TLSC Promotion Policy

The TLSC Promotion Policy was created in 2024 as a means of clarifying the school’s expectations of its students and establishing clear processes for determining a student’s readiness to be promoted to the next year level. 

The school encourages students to demonstrate the school value of commitment by supporting them to complete all work to the best of their ability. Students are expected to take responsibility for their learning by participating in learning activities and demonstrating that they are ready to learn. The basic expectations of students include: high attendance, punctuality, bringing correct materials, using class time effectively, completing coursework requirements, meeting deadlines and submitting work to the best of their ability. 

As part of the publication of Semester 1 reports, students and families will notice a TLSC Semester Result appearing for each subject at Years 7-11. This result provides an overall Satisfactory or Not Satisfactory consistent with the requirements set out in the TLSC Promotion Policy. 

In order to receive a Satisfactory semester result, students must have met the following criteria:

• Achieve an overall average of At Standard for the Commitment rating on Progress Reports for the semester.
• Submit each summative assessment task to the best of their ability (excludes Insufficient evidence).
• Meet the requirement of attending at least 90% of classes (Sub School Teams will exercise discretion for students with known circumstances).
• Achieve a minimum of 40% on the semester exam (Year 10 & 11 only).

Students receiving multiple Not Satisfactory results may not meet the overall requirements for promotion to the next year level.

How to keep track of your child’s progress?

The school uses Compass as the primary communication tool to inform parents about concerns that teachers may have in relation to the progress of their child and their ability to achieve a Satisfactory result. Compass is used in the following ways:

• Progress Reports – issued to students and parents every six weeks.
• Student At Risk – 1st formal notification that a student is not meeting the expectations of the subject.
• Year 7-10 Non-Completion of work / VCE Not SAC or Coursework Ready – 2nd formal notification that a student is not meeting the expectations of the subject.
• Not Satisfactory Completion - formal notification that a student has not met the requirements of the subject.

These Compass posts are designed to keep students and parents informed in a timely manner to help support improvement needed to avoid the issuing of a Not Satisfactory Completion post. 

We acknowledge that parents may find the level of communication a lot to manage at times, however the intention is to best support the student in meeting their expectations.