Appreciation

The professionalism and commitment of our NFSS teaching and non-teaching staff during this challenging time, has been so inspiring. We have continued to strive for high quality learning experiences with a modified curriculum that supports all students. The regular contact parents have had with teachers has been invaluable in helping us to support all students’ unique learning needs in varying circumstances. Thank you for maintaining this contact and working with teachers so closely.

 Life Education - health and safety measures

With our upcoming incursion from Life Education due to be held next month (9^th – 19^th June), Life Education staff will adhere to strict hygiene measures during this incursion. This will include:

• Handwashing and hand sanitising, particularly before and after each session;
• Regular cleaning of any materials used.

Physical distancing measures remains an important consideration for our school during this visit to help reduce any transmission of COVID-19. Although this is not required for students during classroom activities, Life Education staff will continue to maintain appropriate social distancing measures during their visit.

As an alternative space for learning, all lessons will be conducted in classrooms, rather than inside the van. This is in order to minimise gathering the children in a confined teaching and learning space. This aims to:

• reduce the use of common areas and mixing of classes;
• ceasing use of “high-touch” equipment and;
• enhancing ventilation.
  Revised academic reporting

 Report Cards  

Academic reporting involves the way in which NFSS communicates information to parents, carers and students about student achievement and progress for each learning area/subject undertaken, at a point in time. Report cards provide valuable information about your child’s progress, learning needs and areas for improvement. For students, especially those in upper primary report cards can be a motivating factor to engage in learning and assessment.

Reporting is designed to build the school-parent partnership to improve student learning, however given the recent home-based learning arrangements a modified curriculum has been implemented from the Australian Curriculum in line with our Curriculum Plan resulting in a modified program of learning. Modified assessment and reporting for Term 2 and Semester 1 reflects the nature of learning at this time.

NFSS revised curriculum, reporting and assessment involve the following:

• Report cards will be distributed to families at the end of week 3 in Term 3
• English, Mathematics, HASS and Science will be the reportable learning areas on each report card
• Other learning areas have also been taught and assessed, during this period. Other learning areas taught may include Technologies, Health and Phyisical Education, Languages (Chinese) and The Arts (including Music) however the implementation of these learning areas have also been modified
• Assessment requirements for reporting will occur from weeks 4 onwards for years prep and 1; and weeks 6 -10 for years 2-6 with these assessments completed during and after classroom learning

Curriculum Committee

Our NFSS Curriculum Committee meets every Monday twice a term in week 4 and week 8. If you are interested in joining us feel free to let me know via email (mnorm36@eq.edu.au). We would love to see you there!

With warm regards,

Melinda Norman

Head of Department (curricululm)