Kaya, Parents & Community Members,
The School Board met on Monday evening of this week with discussion including:
- Public School Review Report – commendation & recommendations
- Homework Policy – updated copy attached with this Newsletter.
- 2023 Financial Agreement – discussed and noted by the Board
- Business Plan – review of the current plan and discussion re. preparation for a new (2024-2026) plan
Semester One Student Reports will be sent out via Connect early next week, i.e. Monday, June 26. Please ensure your Connect access is updated so reading and eventual electronic storage of the document is straight forward. Please note the following comment which refers to how grades are allocated in the middle of the school year:
- The Department of Education’s Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting policy requires teachers to make judgements of student achievement in relation to expected standards. The descriptors of the standards have been developed to further help teachers determine whether a student’s achievement is at, above or below the expected standard for their year level at this stage in the year or when assessed against what has been taught in first semester.
Please talk with your child about their achievements and interrogate suggested areas for improvement. It should be clearly noted that the term “satisfactory” on all reports should be interpreted as “expected”, i.e. for students who receive a “C” grade, this is the level at which they are expected to be working.
Finally, I sincerely appreciate the efforts of our teaching staff in generating this set of reports. There has been a significant amount of care and intellectual thought given to each individual report representing a valuable update of each child’s progress.
And finally, our Associate Principal, Mrs Hannah Murdock (nee Cole), will now be using her married name. Mrs Murdock’s email address will remain unchanged.
Peter Meston
Principal
