Teaching and Learning Hub
Learning Habits:
It is with great enthusiasm that we launched five new Learning Habits this semester. These Learning Habits will underpin all aspects of learning that takes place at our college, and all students will be assessed against these habits for their Progress Report, published every 6 weeks via Compass.
The new Learning Habits are:
Our school vision is centered around student empowerment, and we strongly believe that these new, research informed, learning habits will support all students to continuously develop as great learners and achieve their personal best here at HPSC.
Please find attached an infographic that outlines the five Learning Habits and the Rubric that students will be assessed against for their Progress Reports.
Reporting Changes:
Over the last six months we have been reviewing our Reporting practices here at the college. We are now implementing some positive changes to ensure reports are more personalised to the student and easily read by parents/carers.
One of the main changes it to how students receive written feedback from their teachers. All teachers are now expected to use a three part structure when providing SAC and Learning Task feedback. This structure looks like this:
Part 1. How are you going (Feedback) – minimum of one sentence outlining the students’ achievement in that learning task.
Part 2. Where to next in your learning (Feed Up) - minimum of one sentence outlining the next step(s) for the student in their learning.
Part 3. How can you get there (Feed Forward) - minimum of one sentence explaining how the student can improve.
The second change for parents/carers to be aware of is the 5 point grading scale currently used to measure achievement. Currently, we are still using an A – E scale with the following descriptors. However, we are continuing to review this as we more towards more research informed developmental assessment.
| A | Accomplished within the assessed Standard |
| B | Becoming Accomplished within the assessed Standard |
| C | Competent within the assessed Standard |
| D | Developing toward a Competent level |
| E | Emerging skills |
| UG | Work not submitted or incomplete |
| NA | Not assessed |
| A* TO E* | Alternative common assessment task grades |
As always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the relevant House office on 8795 9400.
Paul Broecker,
Assistant Principal