Progress Reports

Tracking student progress 

This week you will be receiving, via Compass, the first progress report for your child for 2019. These 'snapshot' style reports provide feedback around your child's achievement level, learning growth, engagement with learning tasks, organisation of workbooks, completion of homework (where applicable), ability to follow classroom routines and use of respectful language in every subject.

Our Year 8 students and families will notice an improvement in the format of the progress reports this year, with the addition of descriptive statements for each area. These statements have been developed by our teachers alongside our Critical Friend, Bronwyn Jones, and are designed to help make clear links between learning achievement, growth and classroom behaviours that indicate a readiness to learn. We encourage families to use these statements as conversation starters at home. For example, ask your child about what they feel is going well in each of their subjects and what they need to focus on in Term 2. This is an effective way of making students part of the assessment process. Research tells us that for a student to grow, they must be a central to the conversation around their own learning and progress as they move through secondary school.

Another exciting feature of the revised format is our ability to track the growth of students in each of these areas across this year, and as they advance through the year levels. This gives us an excellent opportunity to work with students to set clear goals in specific subject areas and to recognise improvement and significant growth within an individual. It also enables us to look for patterns that may indicate when a student requires further support and put measures in place to help them achieve success.

Overall, the progress reports form part of our wider Assessment and Reporting framework and help to bridge the often long gap between end of Semester reports. We place a strong emphasis on student learning growth at Edgars Creek Secondary College and believe that all students have the ability to receive and act upon regular feedback to make improvements across the school year. Regular reporting practices during the term allow teachers to work with students and their families over the course of a year, making reporting a more authentic process. 

Leading Teacher - Curriculum & Pedagogy

Taryn Godley