Student Online Feedback and Reporting Guidelines

Next Tuesday parents will receive their login details for the Student Online Feedback and Reporting Guidelines, details of which were included in last week’s Newsletter, and available on our school website via the Curriculum tab. From next Tuesday 31^st May, parents will be able to access some of their child’s work samples that provide students with focused, constructive feedback against the learning intentions and success criteria. A reminder that each class will not be loading the same number of feedback items at the same time – parents will need to appreciate that class teachers have until Monday 4^th July to have made available via Seesaw 2 Religion; 3 English; 3 Mathematics. Due to the nature of some assessments, some classes will not have all eight items online until 4^th July, whilst other classes may have all or most of the eight items available online earlier.

These guidelines provide parents with information regarding our school Student Online Feedback and Reporting Guidelines, an important document that staff have been collaborating on for much of the past 18 months and has been scrutinised by the School Board. In summary:

1. Teachers will use Seesaw to communicate samples of student work to families through the compilation of online folios that will be accessible to both students and parents.
   • Compass, student diaries and school newsletters will remain the primary communication sources related to school routines, events, policies, protocols, and procedures.
2. The Online Feedback Folio contains samples of work that reflects your child’s performance under certain conditions and at key stages of the year and are examples of a wider body of work produced by your child.
   • Online feedback to parents will offer parents an insight and is not meant to provide the entire student body of work.
3. Online folios are examples of student work (work samples) and performance that reflect the student’s level of proficiency against grade-level criteria and support a teacher’s appraisal of a student’s grades in key learning areas.
   • Teachers will still provide other examples of student work to parents throughout the year, including student workbooks and weekly tests.
4. Class teachers are best positioned to determine the frequency and timing of feedback provided and there may be variation in frequency between learning areas and between different grades as appropriate during terms 1 and 2 for mid-year reporting, and during terms 3 and 4 for end of year reporting, however, all classes will provide families with the same number of examples:
   
   • Mid-Year online folios are to contain the following examples of feedback for reporting: 2 Religion; 3 English; 3 Mathematics.
   • End-of-Year online folios are to contain the following examples of feedback for reporting: 3 Religion; 6 English; 6 Maths, 2 HPE (1 Health, 1 Physical Education), 2 HASS (History and Geography), 1 Science, 2 Music, 2 Languages, 2 Arts, 1 Technologies.