Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting

Daniel Moloney

Assistant Principal

Hi everyone!

Semester 2 PLSP Goal Setting

Our teachers are currently in the process of reviewing and/or developing your child's PLSP goals for Semester 2. Undoubtedly, many families will have made contact with their child's teacher to exchange feedback and discuss these goals in recent SSG meetings in the last few weeks. A final draft of your child/ren's Semester 2 PLSP Report/s will be distributed to you in Week 10.

JSA Library

It is exciting that our library will be operating digitally next week. Having developed both a 'JSA Library Policy' and 'Library Borrowing Manual', all staff and students can follow our set expectations and procedures to schedule a time to visit, to access texts for both staff and class groups accordingly.

Future plans for our library will include:

promoting key school events, e.g. Education Week, the Premier's Reading Challenge, the Scholastic Book Fair
implementing multiple iPad devices to enhance borrowing access
providing student individual borrowing access for our senior students

Watch this space!

Scholastic Book Fair

This term, we are conducting our annual Scholastic Book Fair in the CLH once again.

The key dates that our students will be attending in their class groups are:

Primary Sub School: Thursday, 19th August
Middle Sub School: Friday, 20th August
Secondary Sub School: Monday, 23rd August

Subject to the current COVID Restrictions set in our latest DET Operations Guide, parents will not be able to attend onsite for these days. If there are any changes to these restrictions, further information will be communicated.

JSA Mini Olympics Extravaganza

On Thursday, 26th August (Week 7), 'Kaboom Kids Sports' will be hosting our 'Mini Olympics Extravaganza', to be conducted in Playground 6. Sub School sessions will be held in 9 grade groups as follows:

Primary Sub School: 9:30am-10:30am
Middle Sub School: 11:30am-12:30pm
Secondary Sub School: 1:30pm-2:30pm

Our Student Leaders will be voting on and confirming the final list of 9 sports activities for students to participate in on the day. Luke, from Kaboom Kids will be meeting with them to explain both what the activities will look like and their special role helping on the day, in their online meeting to be held in Week 5.

Subject to the current COVID Restrictions set in our latest DET Operations Guide, parents will not be able to attend onsite on this day. If there are any changes to these restrictions, further information will be communicated.

Accelerus Update

In Evaluating and Diagnosing our school functions and processes in implementing Accelerus for reporting processes at JSA, we have identified specific areas for improvement to enhance our current practice. These include:

developing student, class, sub school and whole school data analysis tools to collate and report PLSP goal achievement to all key community stakeholders
streamline the family distribution process for both PLSP Reports and Semester Reports (implementing 3 separate sub-school distributions)
transitioning from an onsite hosting arrangement to an off-site arrangement to access necessary expertise from the Accelerus Team

With these changes, we can ensure:

an effective transition to a more accurate and effective means of measuring our student's achievements across all areas of the curriculum semester-by-semester.
a more reliable and efficient distribution of reports prior to the end of each term.
that in significant emergency situations (i.e. affecting our ability to access electricity, water damage), our school data will remain protected when managed offsite.