Evatt Primary School is currently looking into updating our school logo. The Wedge-Tail eagle is firmly embedded within our school identity since it was adopted as the emblem in 1984. There is no intention to replace this. In our early consultation with staff, students and community members, there is a general consensus that our school logo could be modernised and softened to better reflect the school and its community.

There are some important considerations we need to consider.

Uniforms: Almost all our school uniforms include our current school logo. There would be no expectations on families to purchase new school uniforms if a change was to happen. New uniform orders would include the updated logo and students are able to wear their existing uniforms until families decide to replace them. The school would also look into 'rebranding' options such as iron on patches that would be at no cost to families.

Signage: School signage and branding would need to be updated to include the new school logo. This would include the front of the school sign, general front office signage and our sporting house flags. Many of these signs are reaching their end of life and would need to be updated soon regardless.

We would appreciate all families filling out this short survey in regards to changing our school logo.

School Logo Survey

We are currently reviewing the way we report feedback to parents/carers on student learning. Student reports are one way ACT public schools inform parents about their children’s learning. Reports are provided to parents at the end of Semesters 1 and 2 of each school year. Over the past few years, reports have undergone large changes as we have moved to a standardised template across the ACT.

In addition to A-E grades for each key learning area, the end-of-semester reports provide parents with an assessment of their children’s achievement against the Achievement Standards in the Australian Curriculum for each subject studied on a 5 point scale.

An example of an achievement standard from the Year 5 Humanities and Social Science Curriculum is: Identifies and describes the interconnections between people and the human and environmental characteristics of places, and between components of environments

This in itself provides a highly detailed summary of student's progress throughout the year. The Year 5 curriculum has over 80 achievement standards, and with an average class size of 24, this is close to 2000 individual achievement standards teachers need to assess each year. This is a mandatory component across the ACT.

Another component of the school report is the report comments. These look different from school to school. Currently, Evatt Primary School provides a comment for English, Maths and a general comment. When surveying teachers on the workload associated with these comments, on average, teachers spend 40 hours per semester on writing student comments. Many schools have transitioned to "report comment banks", which provide standardised pre-written comments for teachers to select from. If we were to maintain comments within our reports, we would most likely transition to this format.

We're currently seeking feedback from our community on the value of report comments in today's day and age, and exploring alternative options that might replace these. This might be a combination of:

• Parent requested goal setting meetings at the end of each semester

• Formal report comments only providing strategies for improvement for English & Maths

• Continued use of Seesaw to share student learning (with teachers having greater capacity to post more frequently)

We would appreciate all families filling out this short survey in regards to report comments.

Report Comment Survey

It was great to see some new faces at our AGM on Wednesday night, and we look forward to the year ahead as a new team. We would like to thank our outgoing committee members and welcome the 2021 committee.

Please note that the Canteen online ordering system Schools24 now has a cut off of 8am Friday for lunch orders.

The Canteen also request that if you are registered with Schools24, please log in to your account and update your child's class to assist in sending lunch orders to the correct classroom.