Dear Parents/Carers,

This year as part of our school improvement plans the CE has adopted a new platform for our community survey. The survey will include the voice of students, teachers and parents from St Michael’s community. It is called Tell Them From Me.

The Tell Them From Me Parent Survey is anonymous, voluntary, and easy-to-use. It is based on a comprehensive questionnaire covering parents’ perceptions of their child’s experiences at home and at school.

Insights into parent and staff communication, activities and practices at home, and parent voice on the school’s support of learning and behaviour all build an accurate and timely picture that schools can use for practical improvements.

The survey window is now open and closes on Friday 11 June. You can access the survey via the following link;

http://tellthemfromme.com/8mnsm

Thank you for your time completing this survey, we really value your feedback.

Compass Parent Portal/ Semester One Reports /Parent Interviews

Thank you to all parents who have downloaded the Compass Parent Portal. We are continuing to send out reminders and passwords. We have been advised by CE that your child’s Semester One report will be delivered via the Parent Portal. Paper reports will not be issued to families. Parent/Teacher interviews will also be booked via the Parent Portal and will occur this term as soon as reports have been sent. You are no longer able to send student absentee notes through the Schoolzine app. All school events/information will be sent via the compass parent portal.

Today I will be attending a Principal’s Retreat for the day at Galong. Thank you to Damien Webb for his leadership in my absence.

Please find the information below from CE about reporting this Semester.

Many Blessings

Judy Egan

Reporting - Semester 1 2021

Schools have begun the process of creating each child’s Semester 1 2021 report.

In Semester 1:

For Kindergarten students:

• Achievement in each subject will be reported using a four-point scale (Well Above Expectations, Above Expectations, Meeting Expectations and Working Towards Expectations).

For Year 1 to Year 6 students:

• Academic grades for each subject using a five-point scale from A-E will be reported using the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards.

For all students:

• Strand Achievement will be reported in English, Mathematics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Health and Physical Education, and The Arts using a five-point scale (Excellent, High, Sound, Basic, Elementary).
• Engagement with Learning statements, which are taken directly from the Australian Curriculum, will provide specific information about your child’s Critical and Creative Thinking, and Personal and Social Responsibility, using a three-point scale (Beginning, Developing, Consistently).
• Individual student comments will not be used in the Semester 1 Reports.

Dialogue is an important feature of reporting. The Semester Report in this format encourages parent engagement and conversation about student learning. We want your child’s semester report to be the entry point for parent-teacher interviews in K-2 and three-way conversations in Year 3-6. We can engage in genuine conversation about your child’s strengths, challenges, effort and areas for growth.

You are encouraged to book in these meetings with classroom teachers, which will be held in Week 10 of this Term. All the bookings for meetings will be made via the new Compass app.

The new approach to Academic Reporting is a developing process. Further work will be undertaken in the coming months to determine how progress and achievement is best reported based on what we know to be important information about a student’s learning and progress.