Elementary Progress Report Card

Students will receive one Progress Report in November and two Provincial Report Cards, one in February and one in June. 

The progress report for 2017 will be sent home to parents on Wednesday, November 22, 2017.

The purpose of the Elementary Progress Report is to provide information about how a student is progressing at this point in time. 

As learning skills and work habits play a critical role in a student’s success, there is emphasis in this first report on these skills. A student’s development of these skills and habits is also a strong indication of how a student is developing as a self-directed learner. The Learning Skills (with an example) are: 

·                Responsibility - completes and submits class work, homework and assignments according to agreed-                upon timelines

·                Organization - establishes priorities and manages time to complete tasks and achieve goals.

·                Independent Work - follows instructions with minimal supervision. 

·                Collaboration - accepts various roles and an equitable share of work in a group. Initiative - approaches 

            new tasks with  a positive attitude

·                Initiative - Demonstrates the caapcity for innovation and a willingness to take risks.

·                Self-Regulation - perseveres and makes an effort when responding to challenges.

Our teachers are working with students on  these Learning Skills and providing them with opportunities for self-assessment.

The Elementary Progress Report Card will go home on Wednesday November 22, 2017. 

Please sit with your child to review the Learning skills and help your child to make a goal for him/herself for the next term.

Year 2 Kindergarten families will be invited to attend Parent-Teacher Interviews and/or Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences. 

Parent/teacher/student interviews will be held during Nov. 23 (evening) and Nov. 24 PA day, aligned with the elementary Progress Reporting process.

The primary purpose of assessment is to improve learning and to help children become self-regulating, autonomous learners. 

Educators engage in assessment for learning as they observe and document evidence of children’s learning (through the process of “pedagogical documentation”) and provide descriptive feedback to the children that is designed to help them move forward within their zone of proximal development. 

In Kindergarten, evaluation is the summarizing of evidence of a child’s learning in relation to the overall expectations at a given point in time, in order to specify a child’s key learning, growth in learning, and next steps in learning. 

The Kindergarten Communication of Learning: Initial Observations is intended to provide parents with an overview of initial observations of their child’s learning and early evidence of growth in learning in relation to the overall expectations in The Kindergarten Program and with information about appropriate next steps to further the child’s learning

We look forward to seeing our parents at the parent-teacher interviews.