Hello everyone,
It's Lisa Jardine calling from Leatherbarrow Primary with your Tuesday talk mail.
Report cards are being sent home next Monday. This will be the first time that schools in Anglophone South will be sending home the new provincial report card, and it will look considerably different than in year's past. You will notice that the report card is now 4 pages long. The first two pages are your child’s actual progress report. The third page is the report card key to explain the marking scale and the 4th page is the parent/student response form that you will return to the school. You also will notice that students will receive a 1, 2, 3, or 4 to indicate their achievement on curricular outcomes expected for this point in the year.
I included an attachment and a section in our November newsletter to help to explain the new 1, 2, 3, 4 rubric. Please take a minute to look at that analogy of riding a bike as it clearly explains this new reporting system.
In more academic terms, a 1 means that a student has not met the curricular expectation for this point in the year. The student is working below appropriate achievement. A 2 means that they are on their way, and that they are approaching the expectation, but are not quite there. Their work shows a combination of appropriate and below appropriate achievement. If your child is receiving a 1 or a 2 in any curricular strand, your child's teacher will call you before report cards come home to let you know and to discuss why, and how we can work together to help your child more successfully meet curricular expectations.
A 3 means your child is showing appropriate achievement and meeting the curriculum expectations for this point in the year. Our goal would be to have most students at a 3, and we would expect most students will be in this category. A 3+ means your child is showing proficient achievement, and is excelling in some learning expectations.
A 4 means that your child has consistently demonstrated work that excels curricular expectations, even in new contexts. A 4 is certainly achievable but would not be as common at this point in the year when students need much more confidence and independence to independently work beyond curricular expectations. A 4+ means that your child is consistently and independently demonstrating learning that surpasses grade level expectations. This category was described to me as something Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory would receive.
Today, your child is coming home with a form asking you for your preferred parent/teacher day. Please fill this out and return it by Thursday so that we can send you a scheduled 10 minute appointment time in your child's report card.
Mad Science is after school today and PSSC meets tonight at 6:30pm.
If you are interested in volunteering at our Book Fair nest week, we still have many ‘spots’ open for those available to help out:
Thursday, Nov. 23, 10:00-12:00 p.m
Thursday, Nov. 23, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 24, 8:15-10:30 a.m.
Please call the school if you are available.
That’s it for today. Thanks for listening to this very lengthy, but important message. If you have any further questions, please call me. Have a wonderful day!