Your child's school reports show you what they have learnt and can do.
Reports
to parents are one part of the ongoing story of your child's learning.
They provide a snapshot of what your child has learnt and can do at the
time the teacher prepares the report.
The reports should make clear what your child has actually learnt
and comment separately on progress and achievement. A report on your
child's progress should indicate how their learning has developed since
their last report. Your child's achievements should be reported by
indicating what they have actually learnt.
Some reports have spaces for mid-year and end-of-year reporting;
others report on one defined period. A number of schools also send home
portfolios or collections of work that demonstrate your child's
progress throughout the period covered by the report. Others have this
material available for you to look at during parent-teacher interviews.
Reporting on your child's progress and achievement is not only part
of assessing how well your child is learning but also how well all
children in the school are learning. Teachers collect evidence of this
in various ways:
- From portfolios of children's work.
- Using running records of progress (used to assess reading development).
- From anecdotal observations (descriptions of what students do).
- From checklists.
- From assessments or test scores.
- From marking class or homework.
- Conferencing (discussing an individual piece of work with a student).
- From student self-assessment.
This information is used to plan teaching and learning programmes
that suit the needs of your child and other children in the class.
For more information on reports visit the ERO website.
