CELEBRATING PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT AT ST. PATS

This week St. Pat's have been celebrating our students' progress and achievement in READING. 

All students have completed a second DIBELS (see below) assessment over the last few weeks. The data taken from this assessment and the beginning assessment in May allowed us to gauge which students are making progress in reading and which students are making outstanding (greater than expected) progress in reading. We have also celebrated achievement in reading. These students are reading well beyond year level expectations based on the DIBELS data.

Students will complete a third assessment in November and progress and achievement tracked again. Mrs Scott-Pegum and myself have had the pleasure of visiting classrooms to award the gold and silver stickers which are placed in the students journals.

Overall 36% of our students received a GOLD Progress Award (for improvement well beyond expectations) and 24% of our students received a GOLD Achievement Award (for reading well beyond year level expectations).

Please check Seesaw and St. Pat's social media where photos of our award recipients have been uploaded.

DIBELS

The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills. The DIBELS assessment materials are designed to focus on the five BIG IDEAS of early literacy: Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetic Principle Accuracy and Fluency with text, Vocabulary Comprehension.

In the very near future St Pat's will also be celebrating progress and achievement in Mathematics.

This week NAPLAN results for students who participated in Years 3 and 5 in May, were given to parents at the end of 3 way conferences or sent home to parents today. NAPLAN assesses aspects of literacy including reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation and writing, as well as numeracy. NAPLAN helps governments, education authorities and schools to see whether young Australians are reaching important literacy and numeracy goals.

NAPLAN provides information about how education programs are working, areas for improvement, and which schools need support in the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy. NAPLAN tests are designed to provide parents, children and teachers with information about how the child's learning is progressing and where they need support to improve literacy and numeracy skills. 

In 2023 NAPLAN will be conducted earlier; March 15-17th. 

3 WAY CONFERENCES

Here are some photos of students leading 3 way conferences with their families and teacher, sharing their learning in English and Mathematics this term. Students showed work they were proud of work, work that is challenging and shared their goal for a next step in learning. It was great to note the fantastic parent engagement in this event with more than 130 conferences being booked and attended by families.