Children learn best when the significant adults in their lives - parents, teachers, and other family and community members - work together to encourage and support them.
An effective home-school partnership is a working relationship between teachers, families and students that leads to positive academic and social outcomes. Families and schools acknowledge their investment in children and work together to achieve common goals and take equal responsibility for children's learning.
Research has shown that a home-school partnership improves student academic achievement and increased school attendance. Teachers and parents also have been seen to benefit from this relationship. Parents have gained greater confidence in parenting and increased interest in their personal education and career. Teachers feel more supported, appreciated and have a higher morale from having a good relationship with parents.
Seesaw is a digital platform used by every classroom, which allows families to use the Seesaw family app to view their child's work, leave comments, receive class announcements and exchange private messages with teachers.
Compass is an online communication and management platform used for recording student attendance, sending semester 1 and 2 reports and communicating between home and school ie - newsletters, permissions and other notifications. Parents and guardians can easily and effectively use Compass to access this information. The Compass app gives busy parents access to everything they need to know.
Please note, teachers will only reply to parents during appropriate work hours between 8am and 6pm.
Schools are required to provide a written (print or digital) student report at least twice a year to the parents or carers of each child enrolled at the school. Schools are required to report against the Victorian Curriculum F-10 achievement standards, which includes towards foundation levels A-D.
Both achievement and progress against the achievement standards are required to be included in the student report.
Opportunities must be provided for parents/carers and students to discuss the school report with teachers and/or school leaders.
We encourage parents and guardians to speak with classroom teachers regularly as learning occurs best when there is a strong partnership between students, parents, and teachers. To support this partnership, we encourage communication on Seesaw, phone calls and after school informal visits by appointment. Teachers are unavailable on Monday and Wednesday due to scheduled whole staff professional learning and meetings.
Parents/Teacher Partnership meetings (Term 2) create an opportunity to:
Student led conferences (Term 4) encourage students to talk to their parents about the learning, their thinking processes, their progress in all areas of their learning and wellbeing, while teaching them how to link evidence of their learning through producing work samples. The aim of the conference is for students to explain to parents, using examples, how far they have progressed throughout the year. During student-led conferences, teachers act as facilitators as students review their work and progress with their parents.
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