FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING

St Andrews staff engaged in important collaborative learning in order to implement our new assessment and feedback policies and procedures. We are truly blessed at St Andrews to have a staff committed and dedicated to ensure every student is focused and supported to improve in their learning, for every ability level. 

Staff collaboration is a fundamental element to our assessment and feedback model whereby staff engage in consistent pilot marking of formative and summative assessment to ensure every student receives quality feedback so they can improve as well as enabling parents to have consistent subject feedback. In Years 7 to 10, students will receive feedback aligned to the Steps in Learning. It is important to understand that students are striving to achieve stage outcomes aligned to Meeting,in the Steps in Learning. Meeting is 1 years growth. This is a great outcome for students. Once a student achieves Meeting, they will receive feedback to progress to Exceeding beyond stage outcomes. 

St Andrews staff are committed to every students achieving their best throughout their education.

St Andrews Learners 2021

Visible learners 

• Can be their own teacher 
• Can articulate what they are learning and why 
• Can talk about how they are learning—the strategies they are using 

   to learn 

• Can articulate their next learning steps
• Can use self-regulation strategies 
• Seek, are resilient, and aspire to challenge 
• Can set mastery goals 
• See errors as opportunities and are comfortable saying that they 

  don’t know and/or need help 

• Positively supports peers’ learning 
• Know what to do when they don’t know what to do 
• Actively seek feedback 
• Have metacognitive skills and can talk about these skills

St Andrews goal - to make learning visible to every student

‘Feedback is information with which a learner can confirm, add to, overwrite, tune, or restructure information in memory’.

(Winne & Butler as cited in Hattie & Timperley, 2007, p.82) 

Areas to consider when seeking feedback

• Feedback on the gap between current and desired learning
• Feedback on their understanding 
• Feedback to self on progress
• Feedback student to student on progress 
• Focuses teacher feedback 

Instructional Strategies aligned to each stage of the St Andrews Inquiry Model

The following are strategies students can use in Home Learning and at school in each level of our Inquiry Model for learning. 

Assessment Capable Learners at St Andrews

• I know where I’m going

 Students understand their current performance and how it relates to the learning intention and success criteria. 

• I have the tools for the journey. 

Students understand that they can select from a range of strategies to move their learning forward, especially when progress is interrupted. 

• I monitor my progress. 

Students seek and respond to feed- back from others, including peers and teachers, as they assess their own performance. Students know that making mistakes is expected in learning and indicates an opportunity for further learning. 

• I recognize when I’m ready for what’s next. 

Students interpret their data in light of the learning intention and success criteria of the lessons as well as the overall learning progression to identify when they are ready to move on. 

•  I know what to do next.

 Knowing what to do when you do not know what to do is surely the mark of the educated person. It is the difference between knowing how to persist and simply giving up when faced with an early challenge. It is the essence of being a lifelong learner, one who knows how to research, orga- nize information, and continue his or her own learning.

HSC MINIMUM STANDARDS REMINDER

Year 10 will complete HSc Minimum Standards Tests over the following weeks. 

All the information for HSC Minimum Standards can be found in the Year 10 Assessment Site. 

NAPLAN PRACTICE TESTS 

The following schedule indicates NAPLAN Practice Tests to be conducted on March 24 and 25 in order for students to practice with the online test tools and to feel confident using the tool. The marks are not recorded but students are encouraged to try their best so they are confident for the actual tests in May.