Our Lady of the Southern Cross College, Dalby
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Dalby QLD 4405, Australia
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Reading Your Child's Report Card

Teachers and students alike have been busy completing and marking assessment pieces to contribute to their overall results for this semester’s report cards.  As mentioned in a previous newsletter, report cards for Semester 1, 2020 will be distributed in Week 2 of Term 3.  This change in timing for 2020 has allowed more time in class for teachers to monitor student learning and their progress.  We have been working on how we report to ensure that report cards meet their purpose. At OLSCC we report to parents to: 

  • Communicate progress of individual learning 
  • Make comparative judgements against the achievement standard 
  • Inform parents of the application and attitude of students towards their learning
  • Be accountable to the intention of our teaching as communicated at the start of each unit 

You will notice a number of changes on our report cards this term and each week, we will highlight one of the areas of reporting in the newsletter in readiness for your child’s report card next term.   

Academic Achievement  

Your child’s progress is graded on a five-point scale based on their progress throughout Semester 1. This progress is measured against their year level Achievement Standard.  So what does that mean?  The Achievement Standards describe the depth of understanding and the sophistication of knowledge and skill expected of students at the end of each year level or band of years.  It means that your child’s teacher/s covers curriculum and then assesses your child’s knowledge, skills and understanding against what they have taught at this point in the year.  The teacher uses evidence from your child’s work to give an overall grade of achievement at one of the following five points: 

A 

Evidence in the student's work typically demonstrates that the student has the targeted knowledge and  

  • a sophistication of conceptual understanding  
  • an excellent application of skills  
  • the ability to transfer the above to new situations. 

B 

Evidence in the student's work typically demonstrates that the student has the targeted knowledge and 

  • a developing sophistication of conceptual understanding 
  •  a strong application of skills  
  • they are beginning to transfer the above to new situations. 

C 

Evidence in the student's work typically demonstrates that the student has the targeted knowledge and  

  • expected conceptual understanding  
  • expected application of skills  
  • they are able to transfer the above to familiar situations 

D 

Evidence in the student's work typically demonstrates that the student is  

  • developing the targeted knowledge and conceptual understanding  
  • developing the application of skills   
  • beginning to transfer the above to familiar situations 

E 

Evidence in the student's work typically demonstrates that the student  

  • has an emerging knowledge and conceptual understanding  
  • has an emerging application of skills  
  • can apply the above in scaffolded situations. 

Other notations against Academic Achievement on the report card may include 

N 

Insufficient evidence to make a judgement 

M or * 

Modified program delivered and assessed