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STUDENT REPORTS

At Catherine McAuley Catholic Primary School, we believe that clear and meaningful feedback is essential in supporting student learning. Our school reports provide parents and carers with a clear picture of their child’s progress. Report comments for Religious Education, English, and Mathematics are structured into two key sections: Learning Strengths and Learning Goals.

Learning Strengths:

This section outlines how well your child has met or is working towards key areas of the curriculum. It highlights areas where they are demonstrating progress, mastery, or emerging skills. Learning strengths provide insight into their achievements and the areas in which they are building confidence.

Learning Goals:

This section identifies specific areas for further development. Learning goals set out clear steps for your child to work on, helping them strengthen their understanding and skills. 

Teachers will set goals focused on helping students to transfer their learning so all students will have goals, regardless of the overall grade they achieve. Some goals may also include ways in which parents and carers can support learning at home. 

 Examples include:

• Continue developing fluency by reading aloud daily and discussing texts

• Regularly practise counting backwards to support solving subtraction problems.

• Practise using number facts in problem-solving to increase fluency and automaticity (number facts include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)

By understanding these sections of the report, parents can celebrate their child’s progress and provide meaningful support at home. If you have any questions about your child’s report or their learning journey, please reach out to the school for further discussion.

UNIFORM

All students are now required to be in full Winter uniform. This includes ties for all students with an option of tunic or pants for girls. We ask that all parents refer to the uniform policy on the school website to ensure students are presented correctly at school. 

A reminder that hair below the shoulders should be tied up and only basic hair accessories in school colours should be worn.  Non-natural hair colours are not allowed at McAuley in line with our uniform policy.   Nail polish and make-up is not to be worn to school and only one pair of small plain stud earrings are suitable to be worn to school. 

A note will be sent home with your child if they are not in the correct uniform. The clothing pool is well stocked if you are in need of any items of school clothing. Please contact the front office if you would like to access the clothing pool.