Category: Parents as Partners

Today we issued our children with their annual reports.

Inside your envelope please find:

• Your child’s report (Please see information below on how to interpreate the report).
•  Pupil report – your child’s reflection on their learning.
• Primary 7’s contain their P7 Profile.
• A parent/ carer feedback sheet, please take time to complete this with your child and return to school.

We hope you enjoy reading your report with your child and finding out about their progress.

Annual Summary Primary Reports Session 18 19

‘Parents and families must have access to information that allows them to form a clear understanding of how their child is progressing, and the information they need to help them plays a key role in their child’s education.’

National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education (2016)

Over the course of a school session, reporting to parents and families across West Lothian’s Primary Schools takes a variety of forms. This leaflet accompanies your child’s annual end of year summary report adapted over recent years following revised national guidance and feedback from West Lothian staff and families.

This leaflet outlines the components of the report and relevant information for parents.

The report consists of two pages with separate attendance information.

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This part of the end of summary report is designed to report to parents how well your child is progressing in their learning in national terms using the levels and curricular descriptors of the Curriculum for Excellence.

Early Level:  Pupils work within this level in the Early Learning and Childcare setting and throughout Primary 1, or later for some.

First Level:  Pupils work within this level to the end of Primary 4, but earlier or later for some.

Second Level:  Pupils work within this level to the end of Primary 7, but earlier or later for some.

Third Level:  S1 to S3 but earlier for some.

The National Improvement Framework requires schools to report to parents at the end of each level – Early (P1), First (P4) and Second (P7) whether a child has achieved this level.

Progress in Learning

We have indicated your child’s progress by using the following professional judgements:

• Achieving beyond National expectations
• Consistently achieving National expectations
• Achieving some aspects of National expectations
• Progress supported through an individual plan

 Engagement in learning

The class teacher has also given an indication of your child’s engagement in their learning, as attitude and application are good indicators of continuing success.

Professional judgements in relation to engagement:

• Consistently shows high level of engagement in learning
• Engages in most learning activities
• Inconsistent engagement in learning activities

Teacher comment

This is a personalised reflective comment which provides an opportunity to describe each child’s wider achievements, a child’s personal attributes or general progress in learning and engagement in school events.  This comment might also make reference where relevant to behaviour, home learning, aptitude, attendance and individual learner characteristics.

There are four main sections which make up the body of page two. These will summarise key strengths and learning progress along with focused next steps for your child across:

1. Literacy and English,
2. Numeracy and Mathematics
3. Health and Wellbeing, and
4. Highlights from Learning Across the Curriculum

In this summary report we ensure that positive comments are personal and individual about your child as a learner and their successes this year. Our communication in this summary report is intended to share with you and your child how much and how well they have progressed in their learning this session. We have aimed to provide clear, positive and constructive feedback about your child’s learning and progress and provide clear information about their next steps in learning.

School Attendance Summary

 If you have any queries regarding the information included in this summary please contact the school office. Your child’s attendance this session is given as an overall percentage and how many openings they have missed.

Learning conversations with pupils

West Lothian Council fully expects that class teachers will have dialogue with pupils about their learning on a regular basis. This could be through profiling systems, personal learning planning, learning conversations and/or learning journals.

Parent Evaluation of Reporting Format

 We hope that you have welcomed the ongoing developments with reporting this session in West Lothian.  It is really important that we gather the views and opinions of our parents to continue to improve our reporting further and ask that you complete any paper or on line survey link regarding this.

Further information and useful links.

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/curriculum-for-excellence-benchmarks

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/12/8072/downloads

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/Documents/achievement-of-a-level-poster.pdf

Parental Leaflet 2018 2019 REPORTING