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Ongoing
Assessment and Reporting
At CSPS we believe that clear and timely reporting of your child’s achievements and progress at school is important. Feedback from families during Remote Learning indicated that parents and carers wanted information about what the students were achieving and what the next steps (learning goals) were.
With this belief in mind, we have made the decision to move to ongoing online reporting via Compass. The goal is to effectively gather, analyse and reflect on evidence to make informed and consistent decisions to improve your child’s learning experience.
Ongoing Reporting is a report that builds throughout the year and provides students and parents with ongoing assessment of how a student is progressing.
- Greater accountability of students’ work habits
- Timely feedback – the progress report is issued when the task is completed and assessed, enabling the teacher and the parent to identify, intervene and improve
- No “surprise” negative results coming home at the end of a semester. If there is a problem, parents are notified when it arises
- Access online anywhere, anytime via a secure web-based program.
Students across all year levels will be completing Learning Tasks which will provide a snapshot of achievement in the key areas of Mathematics, Reading and Writing. These learning tasks will be released throughout the term and will be accompanied by comments, goals and/or a RUBRIC showing student achievement.
This will mean that semester reports will look a little different. More details will be released via Compass. Stay tuned for a Mathematics Learning task very soon!
Mastering Number Sense
Mathematics lessons across the school have focused on the strand, Number and Algebra, specifically working on the skills of Place Value. Almost all mathematical concepts build on the understanding of Place Valueand that makes this concept so important.
Foundation students work on having a strong 'sense of ten' from which to further their understanding of place value and we always use materials (even natural materials) to demonstrate and learn these early skills.
Year 1 & 2 students work on Unitising. Part of developing fluency in calculation processes is the ability to engage with ‘one lot of ten’ as an entity in its own right and operate with it as though it is one object rather than one object comprised of ten other objects. This extends to working with hundreds and thousands.
Year 3 & 4 students work on Unitising and Exchanging. Students partition, regroup and rename numbers up to ten thousand.
Year 5 & 6 students work on Unitising and Exchanging up to millions. This includes renaming, regrouping, expanding and rounding.
SUPER SPECIAL DOUBLE EVENT!!!
Easter Bonnet Parade AND PJ DAY!!!!!
Have you got your Easter Bonnet parade hat ideas ready to go? Do you have your comfiest Pjs in mind? Then this is the day for you!!
On the last day of school (Thursday 1st April), the students can wear their Easter Hat AND Come in their PJ's . We are asking for a gold coin donation to support The Good Friday Appeal. Please start thinking about what materials you may like to use to help make your Easter Bonnet. You can be as creative as you wish- It would be great to see students incorporating recycled materials to hand make their Bonnet.