Dear Families

This afternoon you will be able to retrieve your child's report in preparation for your parent/teacher interview next week. To retrieve your child's report log into Compass via the app or the compass website: https://sacredheartmosman-nsw.compass.education/ Once in your child's profile, choose the Reports tab from the dashboard.

When you get your child's report please spend a little time reading the explanatory guide at the beginning of the report.  Please note that Kindergarten only have three achievement levels (thorough, sound and basic) while years One to Six have five achievement levels (extensive, thorough, sound, basic and elementary).  Each child's achievement level has been made through a combination of formal assessments, informal assessments, work samples, individual interviews (especially in mathematics) and matching work with NESA syllabus expectations. 

Your child's effort grade is made using teacher observation of a child's engagement in class, their attention to completion of work and their participation in whole class and group situations.  There are four grades for effort for Kindergarten through to Year Six.  (Needs improvement, satisfactory, commendable and outstanding.)  When reading your child's report you will find that teachers have given you areas that your child is working well in so you can congratulate them on their success in those areas.  Any areas of need are framed as a goal for the next two terms.  A helpful discussion to have with your child is to ask them if they know (or have any strategies) how they will achieve that.  This can be a good starting point for your conversation next week with teachers.

A few reminders:

• Mosman Council rangers seem to be quite regular at the school at the moment so please be aware of the parking regulations and safety around the school as the fines are very high for infringements around school.
  
  
• A reminder that no dogs should be brought onto the school grounds.
  
  
• If you are going on a holiday for more than 10 school days please ensure the paperwork is filled out ahead of time.  Extended Leave Application, 10 days and over during school term  This document along with other handy links is located later in the newsletter under: "Quick Link to Guides & Forms"
  
  
• A reminder about our Writing Workshop at 8.45am on Tuesday 2nd July.  The workshop will run for an hour and then classrooms will be open for you to see writing in action.  Our school goal for the year is to improve writing and we would love many parents to attend so that we can work on this goal together. At the workshop you will also hear three of our public speaking finalists present their speeches so you can "hear" some of our wonderful writing.

Important Dates:

28th June is the Sacred Heart Feast Day Mass at 9.15am whilst the Big Blue Awards will be held at 2pm in the school hall.

4th July Thursday,  is the student last day of school, Friday the 5th is a student free day.

9th - 19th July - Vacation Care at Sacred Heart - See the  Vacation Care Program   & booking form  within this newsletter

22nd July is the students 1st day back for Term 3.

Congratulations to our students who made a great effort over the last semester to achieve their report results. 

Kind regards
Julie Caldwell