Process used to review R-6 reports with parents

1. R-6 Reporting
Review
Term 2 2012
Parent Group

2. What do we aim to achieve?
 Firstly
Port Broughton Area School wants to
provide a quality reporting system to parents
that informs them clearly of how their students
learning is progressing.
 Secondly Port Broughton Area School wants
to support its teachers by providing a quality
report proforma that does not represent an
unacceptable work load thereby taking time
away from other valuable teaching/learning
tasks.

3. SACSA & The Australian Curriculum
From semester 2 2012 PBAS will be reporting against
the Australian Curriculum in:
 English, maths, science & history
All other subject areas will be reported against the
South Australian Curriculum Standards and
Accountability Framework (SACSA).
 Australian Curriculum Geography, Languages, Arts
will be phased in during 2013.
 Australian Curriculum HPE and Technologies will be
phased in in 2014.

4. What does the Education
Department expect?
 Schools must provide two written reports per year that
report on all areas of learning.
A written report refers to a report which can
be from 1 page up in length and could include
(or not) blocks of writing, continuums, tick boxes
etc…..
 Schools must use plain language.
 The mid year report should reflect learning to that point.
 The end of year report should reflect learning across the
whole year.

5. What does the education
department expect?
 Reportsmust be based on the 5 levels A-E or
their word equivalents.
Your child is demonstrating excellent achievement of
A what is expected at this year level
Your child is demonstrating good achievement of what is
B expected at this year level
Your child is demonstrating satisfactory achievement of
C what is expected at this year level
Your child is demonstrating partial achievement of what is
D expected at this year level
Your child is demonstrating minimal achievement of what
E is expected at this year level

6. Our current R-6 process
Term 1
Class teacher decides what will go home to parents.
 Take home books/portfolios are generally sent
home providing work samples and teacher
comments.
Term 2
A written report goes home Friday of week 8 with
parent teacher interviews scheduled for week 10.
Term 3
Optional parent teacher interviews?
Term 4
A detailed written report goes home in week 9.

7. What sort of information do
you want and when?
 Major written reports x 2 a year
 Take home books/folders
 Parent teacher interviews
 Minor written report
 Traditionallyinformation is given out at the
end of terms. Is this appropriate or are
there better times during the term for
parents to receive reports from teachers?

8. Report Formats
 Examples
 Spend time looking through examples
provided.
 Parentsto ask questions as they look
through examples.
 Positives, Interesting, Negatives

9. What do parents want in a
report?
 A school report should inform parents of the
progress their child is making at school.
 Format (the way it looks)
What makes a report easy to read and
understand?
 Content
What are the four key things you want to learn
about your child from their school report?