Deputy Principal (Andrew Healey)

Progress Reports

The planned parent interview afternoon for Tuesday 5 April has been placed on hold. The school will now send out to parents a progress report for all students; lower school and senior school. The progress report is not a formal report and does not require teachers to do any action other than enter data as per normal. The requirement is for teachers to have up to  data entered into RTP by the close of Monday 4 April in order for parents to receive an accurate progress report.

RTP Good Practice

A good practice that can easily be done by everyone is that when the first data is entered into RTP to also complete the ABEs at the same time. By entering the ABE for a student at the same time as the first data is entered, allows you to have a fresh view on a student and how they are performing. At each subsequent entry of data you tweak the ABE to reflect how each student is doing; very little extra effort to be accurate. Not only does this allow the teacher to demonstrate a clear knowledge of their students, but also provides PCs or HoYs a snapshot of a student if they need to speak to a parent. And by doing it this way there is less stress/need to rush this requirement at the end of the semester when reports are due. When reports are due the ABEs have already been done and only require that tweak to be accurate.

Note: No teacher is being asked to enter ABEs for a student’s progress report because ABEs are not part of a progress report!

Effective Feedback

Tweaking the ABE of a student throughout the term to accurately reflect the actions of a student towards their study leads back to what is ‘The Best Teacher’ modus operandi for student feedback. To quote from Hattie “Effective feedback leads to positive changes in teaching and learning practices and significant improvements in student outcomes”. The AITSL standards requires teachers to be active in their feedback to students; how to grow the student. AITSL has a range of resources for everyone to tap into including this one – click here  or here.