From the Assistant Principal Teaching, Learning and Wellbeing

FEEDBACK TO PARENTS VIA COMPASS

Consistent feedback to parents about the learning of your child is a fundamental cornerstone in building relational trust between all members of the St Andrews College community. As a community of learners, parents will be provided with ongoing feedback about their child’s progress from each of their classroom teachers.

What feedback can parents expect to receive from their child’s classroom teacher?

There are several ways in which parents will receive communication about how their child is progressing in each of their subjects at St Andrews College. This is an ongoing form of feedback about your child’s learning as they progress through Years 7 to Year 12. Both the parent and child will receive continuous informal and formal feedback at various times of the term. This is in line with our challenge to all learners at the College that everything they do, in class, in examinations, in their formal and informal assessment tasks, contributes towards their final result at the end of each semester – everything counts.

Formal Feedback:

Students and parents are notified of the times when formal feedback will occur. The first instance of this is the assessment handbook which is posted on each year group’s learning site. The assessment plan for each subject outlines the date or week the task will occur during the year. It will also provide the type of task, type of submission and the weighting of the task. These tasks contribute to the final grade awarded for your child’s achievement in that subject in Years 7-11.

Feedback from these tasks is provided to both the parent and student through Compass and will be in the form of a mark or a grade. Parents will be provided with the notification, marking criteria and marker feedback for the task. Parents can then discuss these results with their child and review the student’s submission of the task and individual feedback received from the marker. We encourage parents to contact the child’s teacher if they need further clarification about the feedback or the result the student achieved for the task.

Informal Feedback:

At St Andrews College students receive informal feedback in every lesson. Informal feedback can be written or verbal and relates directly to the classwork or home learning completed by the student.

Feedback on your child’s ongoing learning in class

Our College continues to communicate informal feedback to students and parents using the Steps in Learning. The Steps in learning provide insight into the student’s progress during or at the end of a learning experience, or at any time in the term where the teacher would like to share the student’s progress with their parents or guardians. Informal tasks are usually marked using comments, marks or grades and also contribute to the final grade awarded for your child’s achievement in that subject for Year 7 to Year 11.

Ms Josilin Kalifa
Assistant Principal Teaching, Learning and Wellbeing