Aranda Primary School believes that communicating student achievement in the most effective way possible is essential. Our aim is to develop a partnership between teachers, parents and students to ensure reporting is timely, accessible and informative.

• Students need feedback and opportunities to reflect on their learning so that further learning can occur.
• Parents need thorough information about students and need to be involved in the reporting process through a variety of communication methods.

Term 1

Parent Information Sheet – distributed Week 2 – gives parents the opportunity to provide teachers with useful information about students.

Information Evening – Week 4 provides parents with information on curriculum, class organisation, homework and behaviour expectations. Term Overviews distributed. Opportunity to meet all staff.

Term Overviews - Each term parents/carers receive an outline of the curriculum program and complementary events that are the focus of the term program. Class organisation, expectations and special events are also included.

Term 1 Preminary Report – Informs parents of how students have settled into their new class and alerts parents to any concerns teachers may have. Interviews are requested if necessary.

Term 2

Term Overviews – distributed Week 3.

Mid Year Reporting – A written report (introduced in 2004) and student portfolios go home at the end of term. Interviews are then held if requested by parent or teacher.

Student Portfolios - Portfolios provide examples of student work. Work samples have descriptors of the task and outcomes achieved. They show process and finished products. Portfolios and reports should be read together.

Term 3

Term Overviews – distributed Week 3.

Learning Journeys – parents/carers visit the student in class and are taken on a “learning journey” by the student. Portfolio sharing is included.

Term 4

Term Overviews – distributed Week 3.

End of Year Written Reports plus portfolios – distributed Week 9.

Parents or teachers can request an interview at any time if there is an issue – academic, social, medical, family – that needs to be addressed.