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REPORTING ON STUDENT PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT POLICYOnewhero Area School Policy (National Administration Guideline 2) RATIONALE The education of students is a partnership between school, parents, family and whanau. Therefore, it is essential that communicating clear, dependable information about progress and achievement provides a basis for building a strong partnership between the student, the teacher and the student's parents, family and whanau to support learning and improve student outcomes. PURPOSES 1. To provide information about a student's learning, progress and achievement that can then be used to support further learning. 2. To ensure that there are opportunities for teachers, parents family and whanau to discuss the students' learning needs and formulate plans for their learning programme and decisions concerning their students' learning priorities and general well-being. 3. To indicate clear and specific ways parents, families and whanau can support learning. 4. To indicate next steps of learning. 5. The school is required to report to students and parents on the achievement of individual students, to the school community on the achievement of students as a whole and by groups including the achievement of Maori Students against plans and targets. Refer NAG 2, [iii] GUIDELINES 1. The school will detail a cycle of reporting to parents which will include opportunities for: • A three-way discussion between parent, teacher and student • The student to engage in self-review • The teacher to report to the parents/caregivers in writing. 2. Any parent who wishes to discuss the progress of their student outside the regular reporting time can make an appointment with the teacher concerned (or groups of teachers) before or after school. 3. Reporting to parents will be reviewed as part of the school review cycle. 4. Parents, families and whanau will have at least two plain language reports in writing annually about their children's achievement, progress and attitudes in relation to either the National Standards or achievement objectives in the National Curriculum statements or both as applicable. 5. Written reports give clear, meaningful and dependable accounts of student achievements, progress and attitudes. 6. Reports should hold no surprises for students, parents, family or whanau. 7. Reporting practices and standards and consistent throughout the school. 8. Reporting information may be drawn from but not limited to: • Observations of student day to day work, activities and attitudes; • Progress of samples of the students worked over a period of time; • Results from tests, surveys and other data contained in assessment records. 9. The board will report to the community on the achievement of students as a whole and by groups, and reports on the achievement of Maori Students against plans and targets. 10. Consultation with the Maori Community • The school takes responsibility for initiating and maintaining a process of consultation on the progress and achievement of Maori students with members of the local iwi and the parents of students who have affiliation with Maori. • The purpose of the consultation is to involve whanau in identify learning needs and their students, and encourage interest and support for student educational progress and achievement. The intended outcome is the setting of targets for improved achievement that are supported by Whanau. • Consultation be face to face on a local marae. From these consultations plans will be developed which set out targets for improving the achievement of Maori students that are realistic and achievable in terms of the support of whanau and the school's resources. • The school will report on and review the achievement of its Maori students in relation to targets as scheduled in the strategic plan. Board of Trustees Chairperson: ________________________ 24/08/2010 Policy reviewed 27 July 2010. Next review date 27 July 2013. |
