Data is used in schools to make positive, evidence-informed decisions around student learning and wellbeing and school improvement.

Our School's Data Literacy Framework labelled the Balanced Scorecard is a schedule for staff to know which data sets we have agreed on and when to collect the data for student learning through the year. We also include management data.  It is used as a support for developing the data literacy of all of those who work with our children and students.

Using and responding to data ethically is an important part of the work that we do every day to support A great start for all children  and the State Schools Improvement Strategy—Every student succeeding .

Effective data-informed practice is built on the principles of being:

• purposeful
• collaborative
• solution-focused
• ethical
• inclusive.

Data literacy refers to the knowledge, skills and dispositions to use data ethically to inform policies, decisions and practices.

To make a difference for student learning, wellbeing and school improvement. Our use of data is planned so that it builds our understanding and can be used to inform our practice.

Working with data in this way involves paying attention to the key elements of data literacy. This includes:

• managing and securing data
• accessing and generating data
• evaluating and interpreting data
• communicating with data.

These elements of data literacy work in combination with the principles of data-informed practice to guide the way we use data within the context of our everyday work and also to guide our professional learning in data literacy.

You will be receiving your Individual Curriculum Plan or Personal Future Action Plan for Semester One in the coming week. We take this time to celebrate the goals school and home identified as our key targets for this reporting period.

It is planned in 2021 that your child’s report card at the end of each semester will be graded according to the goals set in the ICP.  During Term 2 we will be holding whole school moderation where we will make a judgement around student learning based on the unit of work the students have been delivered, their streaming class, personalised programming and the teachers’ student data, which will be recorded on your child’s report card. The Individual Curriculum Plan  or Personal Future Action Plan are reviewed every 6 months and you will be invited to a review meeting in Term 3 2021.

In addition to the Individual Curriculum Plan or Personal Future Action Plan you will find the Student at a Glance document (SAAG) (pictured below), this shares what key learning behaviours we will work on together  collected from standardised diagnostic data tools the school has adopted for a number of years.  

The screening, recording and use of data ethically to inform teaching practice strengthens the learning process ensuring the Education Departments Improvement Strategy of Every Student Succeeding.  We wish to draw your attention to the new format and features of the SAAG.  You will notice that SAAG document includes I Can statements for Literacy, Numeracy Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Physical Health and Development.  The I Can Statements are positively worded incremental goals generated from our diagnostic data set.