Learning portfolios are a purposefully selected compilation of student work that include curated evidence over an entire course.
Throughout your time at Bradfield Senior College, you will create a Google Sites portfolio that reflects your developing skills within all your subject areas.
It will be an ongoing, online portfolio and you will submit a variety of tasks, including PEEL paragraphs, final assessment tasks as well as assessment task drafts.
showcase student learning and academic growth over time
include written reflections by students that are helpful for goal setting for future tasks
support home-school connections when shared with parents
prepare you for creating portfolios of work that can be used for admission to courses or when applying for jobs.
1 - Go to Google Sites
2 - Choose a BLANK template
3 - Create a title page with a quick outline of what you are studying and what you hope to achieve in your HSC year e.g.
My name is Max and I do English Standard, Visual Arts, Modern History, Ancient History, and Legal Studies. I want to be a film maker. I am aiming to improve my English marks by getting to a Band 5.
4 - Create a page for each of your subjects.
5 - For each page, you will upload or copy work that you do for that specific subject e.g. Max could submit his short stories, poems, assessment drafts, and their essay to their English Standard, page whereas they could submit photos of their final artworks to their Visual Arts page.
What have I learnt by doing this work?
Can I apply this new knowledge to my other assessments/subjects/interests/career goals?
What was I most proud of about this work?
What can I improve on it?
What feedback did I receive for this work?
This portfolio is important because it provides you an opportunity to reflect on your work, what you have learnt, and how you can apply your new knowledge in different aspects of your life.
By responding to the key questions, you are building on higher order thinking skills, such as evaluation (having a judgement) and synthesising (bringing together) new ideas into one piece of work.