A message from Admin - Criteria Sheets/Report Cards

A guide to help you understand what is coming home in the portfolios and Semester 1 report cards!

Criteria sheets will reflect the marking guide used to assess a piece of student’s work. These will have several key points similar across the year levels. These include:
· The significant task the students completed
· the subject area/s listed and unit topic
· the key curriculum content descriptors (taken directly from the Australian Curriculum)
· dot points under the descriptors to describe the specific work required to achieve this descriptor

A five point scale of A-E is awarded in conjunction with a 4 point effort scale. I stress that the 5 point scale we use today is NOT the same as when we were at school. The expected achievement standard for the year level, which includes all work being covered to be understood and demonstrated consistently across a range of assessment items, is awarded a ‘C’ rating. This is NOT just average, just doing what is needed to scrape through! This is an excellent achievement, a semester of consistent work, meeting year level expectations.

Keep in mind this year with the introduction of the Australian curriculum, the amount and level of complexity of the work has increased significantly in every year level, yes even in Prep! For a student to achieve a ‘C’ rating this is something to be praised and celebrated as it is a semester of dedication and a significant amount of work to be completed.

One very important part of the criteria sheet and/or report card is the effort rating. This is a very telling sign of how much effort and commitment to their learning your child has. The ratings are: Consistently, Generally, Sometimes and Rarely. We would expect that most children are working in the Consistently or Generally rating. If your child comes home with ratings in the Sometimes or Rarely column, I would be questioning them as to why they are not trying their very best at all times.

Week 10

Wow, the last week of the term...we can't believe how quickly the time has gone by!

This week we are finishing off some projects and preparing for Easter with crafts and activities. We won't do home readers this week, please send home readers back so we can update our boxes ready for next term. Children just need to continue with their Homework grid and write and learn this week's spelling words. (These can be found on the Homework page).

The children did very well in the Cross Country today. They are excited about showing their classroom off at Showcase Evening on Wednesday from 6 - 7 pm. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Have a great week and a wonderful and safe holiday and Easter.

Felicity and Melissa

Week 9

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Week 9! There may only be two weeks left of the term but we have lots to do as we prepare for portfolios and showcase. (Don't forget Showcase Evening is next Wednesday, 28th March from 6 - 7 pm) Expect tired children during the week!

The new Homework Grid is out and last fortnight's homework is now due. You will find the link for the new grid on the Homework page along with this week's spelling words.

This week the children will be working on their first Mathematics Project titled, "Let's have some fun and do some measuring!" What can they measure at home???


A reminder too, that the School Disco is on this Friday night.

Have a great week!

Felicity & Melissa

Week 8

Hi everyone, Welcome to Week 8. We have a couple of busy weeks ahead as we finish our units in readiness for portfolios and the Showcase Evening. This week the children will construct Terrariums and observe them. The children will also begin planning their narratives (their major English assessment) and we will continue to investigate the history of the Logan area.

In Maths we are revising different ways of informally measuring objects and exploring more formal ways of measuring.

The children were all given a list of this week's spelling but in case it doesn't make it home you can find the words on the homework page.

Have a good week!

Felicity & Melissa

New Websites

Hi Everyone

We have added the links to two new sites that we have been using this week. The children loved exploring the maths website in computer lab time today!

You will find the link for the "National Library of Visual Manipulatives" under the title 'Maths Sites' and you will find "TumbleBooks" under the title 'Literacy Sites'. This site has a great collection of online stories and it also has ebooks for iPads. ENJOY!

Melissa & Felicity

Homework

Hi All

Just a reminder that the homework grid and the numbers chart link are on the Homework Page. Please let us know if you are not able to print these at home and we will organise paper copies to go home. We are going to leave the same set activities on Studyladder for this week as this time are are eight activities in total.

Cheers!

Homework

Hi All!

The new Homework Grid can be found on the Homework Page. We have made the links maroon so they stand out. Just click and away you go!

Cheers,

Melissa & Felicity

Week 7

Welcome to Week 7! We are wondering where this term is going!

Another busy week ahead with much learning to be done. In English, we are finding out about temporal connectives, the words that describe time, e.g. After, later, since, first, before, finally etc. We are also continuing our focus on narratives. Kids, teach your parents the parts of a narrative.

On Wednesday we have our year 2 Math test so the focus for the week is to revise all we have learnt this term.

The spelling words went home today but they are also on the Homework page (see the bar above).
The new homework grid will be available on the Homework page tomorrow. Just a reminder that children should be reading nightly. Only half of the class brought their reading folder to school today, hope there is a big improvement tomorrow!

Have a good week!