Assessment:
As per DECD requirements we undertake Running Records, PAT (Progressive Achievement testing) in Mathematics and Reading Comprehension and NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy).
We also use ongoing formative assessment practices to assess learning growth and progress.
Reporting:
Term 1 – Acquaintance/open night; 3 way interviews (student, parent, teacher) focused on student data and goal setting, Learning Expo
Term 2 – Learning Expo, written report
Term 3 – Optional 3 way interviews, Learning Expo
Term 4 – Written reports
We use the App ‘SeeSaw’ to share learning progress on an ongoing basis as a learning portfolio.
Optional 3 way and/or parent – teacher conferences can be requested at any time by teacher or parent.
We encourage ongoing communication between staff, students and families regarding student progress and goals.
Felixstow Community School is truly an extraordinary place of learning. Our talented and dedicated staff provides each student with rigorous care, challenge and support academically, socially and emotionally.
At Felixstow I see our child developing his ability to think, understand, relate and create; not just to know and do. He has a well tailored program that is delivered based on his needs and talents, not his age. The school offers great support for individual needs as well as appropriate challenge to stretch capabilities. Not just for the children, but for everyone : familes and staff included. We are all progressing and growing every term, and for this I am truly grateful".
"Felixstow Community School is not the same as it was when I attended the R-7 Family Unit in the 1980s. It is better. In 1984, there was a radical approach to learning we called "having a go". In 2018 it is now called a "growth mindset", and it's still at the core of the school's ethos. FCS has supported the growth not only of our child but of our whole family. The chance for each of us to have a go ... our son in his learning, us in school governance and collaborating in our child's learning plan...is now backed with substantial support from a much larger, well resourced and networked staff team, including excellent specialists in wellbeing & learning needs."
5-11 Briar Road
Felixstow SA 5070
Ph: (08) 8365 7183
email: dl.1228.info@schools.sa.edu.au
Week Days: 08:30-16:00
