End of Semester Reports

End of Semester Reports Released Today

As we come to the end of what has been a huge year for all of us, we at school have been silently celebrating the enormous growth our students have made in spite of the disruptive year that has been.

 

Today you will receive your child’s end of semester report; a final celebration of the wonderful achievements they have made this year.

 

At Armstrong Creek School, our system of reporting and providing feedback to parents includes a number of strategies, including Learning Tasks, parent/teacher interviews and semester reports.

 

Our on-going system of reporting means that this term you have already received a learning task, along with others communicated to you during the year. These learning tasks are still accessible via the tab on compass and are a great way to check out the progress your child has made since the beginning of the year. This final report is a summary which outlines specifically what your child has achieved and where on the Victorian Curriculum continuum they are placed in terms of their learning. See the table attached along with an explanation of just how the Victorian Curriculum works and what it means for your child.

 

If you have any questions about your child/ren’s report, please contact their home group teacher.

 

Thanks for another great year!

 

THE VICTORIAN CURRICULUM

The Victorian Curriculum F–10 sets out a single, coherent and comprehensive set of content descriptions and associated achievement standards to enable teachers to plan, monitor, assess and report on the learning achievement of every student. It incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian standards and priorities. 

 

The Victorian Curriculum is not structured according to nominal year levels that equate to particular school grades. Rather, the curriculum is structured as a learning continuum, that is, developmental levels that enable teachers to identify current levels of achievement and then plan to enable students to achieve expected levels. At Armstrong Creek School, we focus heavily on the development of personalised learning programs for all students, where the curriculum is planned in relation to the actual learning level of each student rather than their assumed level.

 

We use the curriculum flexibly to reflect what happens in the typical mixed-ability classroom, that being a five-year range of achievement between students. This is based on evidence from a Grattan Institute report which asserted that ‘at any given year level there is a five to six-year difference between the most advanced and the least advanced ten per cent of students. 

 

This means that, for example, not all the students in a typical Grade 5 class will be studying the Level 5 curriculum. Some will still be acquiring the curriculum knowledge and skills at levels below that, some will be acquiring the knowledge and skills defined for that level, and some will be acquiring a level of knowledge and skills well beyond that nominally defined for Grade 5. 

 

Scores are used by teachers when they make judgements against the Victorian Curriculum standards for formal reporting to parents and DET. The year level of the student is not a factor in this process. The student’s level of achievement demonstrated against the achievement standards is what is recorded. This table shows how the scores relate back to year level and age-related guidelines.