Learning & Teaching

Prep News

Fire Education

Today, our Preps had their first visit by Firefighters from the Hawthorn Fire Station. The lesson focused on the following topics:

• Good fires and bad fires
• Crawl Low in Smoke
• Safe Meeting Place at school and home
• What is an Emergency? 000 (Triple Zero)

The Firefighters will return soon and work with the students to:

• revise Firefighter First Visit concepts
• observe and discuss Safe Meeting Places at school and home
• introduce the concept: Stop Drop Cover Roll (what to do if your clothes catch fire)
• visit the fire truck

Semester 1 Reports

Staff are currently working on assessment and reporting as they gather evidence to support students' academic achievement against the Victorian Curriculum and the Religious Education Framework.

Your child's achievement against the Victorian Curriculum and the Religious Education Framework for the semester is rated against a five point descriptor scale, displayed by a Dot, which identifies whether your child is:

• Well above standard

• Above standard

• At standard

• Below standard

• Well below standard

Not all strands of a Learning Area are reported on each semester. If a child is showing the same result at the end of Semester 1 compared to the previous report, this does not mean that progress has not occurred. Progress is not always even and each child has his/her own rate of learning. Each increment represents six month's growth and your child may still be progressing, but consolidating what has been learnt previously e.g. your child may have shown five months growth, but not moved up an increment.

The Student Report format will contain a personalised 'Comment on Student Learning' which may refer to the student's academic achievement, personal and interpersonal skills, thinking skills, organisational skills as well as behaviour and effort.

The Student Report will provide you with an overview of your child's achievements and assist in strengthening our family-school partnership. The Student Report is intended to promote discussion at the Parent/Teacher Chat (27 August) about how we can work together to benefit your child. 

Changes to Student Reporting

• There have been some changes made to the Student Report format. The Mathematics 2.0 Curriculum will have its own page and the progression dot point will only appear on this page.

• The English and Mathematics 2.0 pages will also feature a Work Habits Table indicating how your child's Effort and Behaviour is progressing in these learning areas.

• The Specialists (Visual Art, Performing Arts, Health and Physical Education and Chinese) will also include the Work Habits Table above.

Please note that Semester 1 Reports will not be emailed to you as has been the process in the past. Instead, you will be able to access the Report via the nForma Parent Portal. See below for instructions. We will send notification via Audiri, when the Reports are available to view on Friday 4 July.

nForma Parent Portal

nForma have updated the Parent Portal which has been designed to be more user-friendly. The portal gives parents access to a platform that allows access to Student Reports at any time, and also view student absence details. Below are the instructions for:

• Logging in and Downloading the app to view Student Reports.

Please note that you will be able to access Semester 1 Reports via the nForma Parent Portal on your desktop or the installed app. When the Semester 1 Reports are made available later this term, you will be notified to access them through the nForma Parent Portal. In the meantime, if you need to view previous Reports, please read through the attached instructions.