Understanding how we will report national standards

The purpose of this blog entry is to provide our parent community with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the format used when reporting their child's achievement against each National Standard. Teachers will use the relative progress chart (see images below) to illustrate where each student is achieving against both the standard statements and accompanying 'key characteristics', in reading, writing and maths. It is hoped that by familiarizing our parents with the progress charts less time will be spent explaining what they show therefore freeing up more time to focus on discussing more important things such as progress and next learning steps.

Things to consider:

• It is important to understand that students start at different points and progress in their learning in different ways and at different rates from one another.
• This is a mid year teacher judgment on how your child is 'tracking' against an end of year standard.
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Reading: The standard addresses the overall purpose of reading and learning. It does not distinguish all the items of knowledge or specific skills and attitudes that students use as they read. Instructional reading text levels are based on both an accuracy rate in reading text and comprehension.

Writing: The standard addresses the overall purpose of writing in learning. It does not distinguish all the items of knowledge or specific skills and attitudes that students use as they write. Student's writing skills have been assessed using student's samples of writing. It is not expected that students will show all the skills or understandings for a level.

Maths: Students knowledge and strategies in number, geometry, algebra, measurement and statistics are all considered when assigning a level. The expectations for number are the most critical for meeting a standard. It is not expected that students will show all the skills or understanding for a level.

We strongly recommend that parents take the time to familiarize themselves with the above progress charts in order get the most out of the up coming parent-teacher interviews. Although it is important for teachers to report against the standards our top priority will be to share the strengths and next learning steps. Teachers will unpack this by talking through evidence in from samples of your child's work.