Welcome back to everyone in the Wangala Primary School community as we embark on a slightly longer than normal Term Two!  The shorter week last week, due to Easter Monday and Anzac Day bookending the week, was a nice way to ease into the new term. I hope everyone has returned suitably refreshed for the term ahead.

ANZAC Day Service

Last Thursday we held our school’s ANZAC Day service.  Like the public events, our service is simple and quite traditional. 

ANZAC Day has come to represent so much more than the landing at Gallipoli, on this day we honour all the men and women who have participated in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations around the world and take time to reflect on and appreciate their sacrifice and the sacrifice of their families.

I’d like to thank all the students for the respect they showed at such an important commemoration. I’d also like to thank our School Captains for their respectful leadership of our ceremony.

Reporting in Term Two

At the end of Term Two, all students will receive their Semester One reports. This year there are changes to the way students are reported on in Mathematics in Victorian government schools.  The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) revised the Mathematics Curriculum which Wangala Primary School has commended using at the start of this year, and will begin reporting students’ achievement against the new curriculum standards later this term. 

On previous reports, the teacher reported against 3 strands of the achievement and standard for Mathematics (Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability).  Under the revised Mathematics curriculum, teachers are now required to report against the achievement standard as a whole, providing a single, aggregated score. 

As the achievement standards reported on have now changed, and with the two curriculums not directly comparable, this semester the Mathematics report you will receive for your child(ren) will only show achievement, and not progress.  For all reports after this, progress in Mathematics will be presented against the single achievement score.

Curriculum Day

A reminder that next Monday is our second curriculum day for the year, with students not attending school.  On this day staff will be engaged in continuing to develop our English curriculum, namely focused on the explicit teaching and learning of writing.  We’re excited to begin this work.

Due to low interest, we will not be operating Outside School Hours Care for the day.

School resumes Tuesday, 6^th May.

Regards, 

Steven King

Principal