Reporting to
Student Assessments
Staff regularly connect with students and their families to report on learning progress. Class newsletters, diaries, communication books, phone calls, assemblies, school concerts, sports events, meetings and informal dialogue all form a valuable part of the communication between home and school.
We also have a formal structure that ensures that all families have the opportunity to stay well informed about their child/ren’s learning progress.
This includes:
Term 1 Meet and Greet Night and Interviews
Term 2 & 4 Written Report
In the early years of primary school, teachers undertake regular assessments to inform their teaching. Students are tested on their alphabet knowledge once or twice a term.
Phonological awareness screening tool is used each term to identify all reception to year 2 students’ phonological awareness skills appropriate to their year level.
We monitor reading progress through the following assessments:
- Reception: Phonological Awareness Skill Mapping (PASM)
- Year 1: Phonics Screening Check
- Years 2–6: DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
- Years 2–6: DIBELS Maze Assessment (Maze)
- Years 3–6: PAT-R ~ Reading Assessment
- Years 3 and 5: NAPLAN ~ Reading
We provide explicit instruction using the Department for Education R–2 Phonics and Spelling Scope & Sequence and the Years 3–6 Spelling and Morphology Scope & Sequence. Teachers monitor students’ reading progress by regularly administering progress-monitoring assessments.
Students in years 3 and 5 will participate in NAPLaN testing. The results of these tests are published at the end of term 3 for schools and families. Our staff analyse these results to help them in future planning.
Students from years 3 and up participate in school based online testing in term 3. The PAT Maths and PAT Reading tests allow students and their teachers to see which skill areas they need to work on to improve their learning.
Students in year 3 to 6 also have access to the Scholastic Literacy Pro program. This program assesses student comprehension to assist them in choosing appropriate books to read from the library. The aim is to encourage students to increase their ‘Words Read’ score and improve their reading skills.
