4th July 2022
Kia ora koutou
Otaika Valley School
parent/teacher student mid-year interviews
2022 mid-year
Interview format/purpose
- A ten minute interview to discuss students learning needs – at school within your child(ren’s) classroom.
- Some parents are already meeting with teachers regularly about student learning and/or feel informed through seesaw and may not need an interview.
- Others prefer the face to face 10 minute time
- If you have an issue that you believe will take longer than 10 minutes to discuss then please contact your class teacher
When:
- Wednesday 3rd August 12:15 to 6:45pm
- Thursday 4th August 3:15 to 4:45pm
Click on the Interview booking link below.
https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code?z=Kp50ad
Enter code: sjdhu
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The written report (mid/end of year)
- Will show how your child is achieving at mid-year/end-year only in regards to their age expectation in Reading, Writing, Maths, the school RURU values and curriculum key competencies.
- The general comment communicates cross curricula – effort – social – emotional – possible next steps
Real Time Reporting – happens all the time
- To make sure information about a student’s progress and achievement is in “real time”
- Ongoing regular progress and achievement will be reported through the seesaw app across the curriculum areas
- Some of these assessments will show how your child is performing against their age expectation and also give examples of the learning focus for parents/caregivers to help or show interest
- Some activities just show a window into classroom life
- Ensures there are no learning surprises for parents and allows more learning conversations with families
- To strengthen home and school communication about learning
- A selection of activities will be used to show where a child is at for their age
(Achievement level communicates age expectation)
- A selection of activities will show how we do things at school
(the process for student learning)
- Real Time Reporting should…
- help the child
- help the parent/caregiver
- help the teacher
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