Students have been busy finalizing assessment tasks and teachers have been equally busy collating information about your children to present to you as a formal school report which will be sent home within the next two weeks. Reports can be a time of highs and lows for all involved. Take the time to read through your report with your child and celebrate their achievements. It is equally as important though, to identify areas for future growth. At OLSCC, our aim is to provide an environment where your child feels safe to take risks with their learning and view mistakes, or missteps, simply as a means to finding better ways to be successful. My hope is that this view may help shape our thinking prior to reading reports. We have much to gain by discussing things that have not gone to plan in a manner that looks towards improvement. Additionally, allowing our children to solve their own problems, or fix their own mistakes, builds the necessary skills to develop into happy, productive adults who take responsibility for their actions. Einstein said it best (again!) when he stated “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”