Our end of year reports will be viewable on our student learning system, ALF (Amesbury Learning Framework), from Monday 7th December.

Students from Year 0 - Year 6 will have their reports going live by the end of the school day on Monday 7th December. For most students, their report will be an end of year report. For five year old students who have started school this term, they will have a slightly different version - a 'learning story' that will explain how they have settled in to school.

Usually, we report on student progress every term. In terms 1 and 3 we hold student conferences, and in terms 2 and 4 we write mid year / end of year reports. Due to the disruption caused by Covid-19 and our lockdown, we did not complete mid year reports, as students had been learning from home for quite some time. As such, we held 'connection conferences' with parents instead. So for this year, the end of year reports will be the only written report students receive. 

Reports are housed on ALF. The link to all reports on ALF is on the options bar that runs along the top of the home page. Students will have been shown their report at school on the day they go live, so they will know how to access them. Once students have seen their report, they will be live for parents and whānau to view. 

Here is the link to ALF. The link to ALF is also available on our Tizmos page. Parents can use their own login to ALF, if they have a gmail account registered with school. Please follow this link for more information about this. Alternatively, your child/ren can sign in to ALF using their school gmail account; they will know their login and password details. If you have any difficulties accessing ALF, please do not hesitate to contact your child's whānau teacher.

We have a brief tutorial on how to access your child's report on ALF; here is the link to the video. The most recent report for each student will be at the top of the list of reports. Our ALF reports are also downloadable: in the 'Report' section of ALF you will see all of your child's reports listed. On the right hand side there is a download button (downward facing arrow) - if you click on this, a PDF version of your child's report will be downloaded to your device.

To help you make sense of the information within the report, here are some details of what is contained with the report:

There are several information boxes which will help you to get the most out of your report. Please do take the time to read these carefully. While your child will have read their report with one if their teachers, it would be good to read the report with your child and talk about it.

STAR Stanines: Year 3-6 students complete a standardised reading and comprehension test called STAR. If your child was present at school when the STAR testing was completed, they will have their result added to their report.

For the STAR test your child will receive a stanine, which is added to their report. Stanines are a way of scaling test scores nationwide, and they run from stanine 1 to stanine 9. Stanine 5 is the mean (average) score, with stanines 4-6 indicating the average range across New Zealand. Stanines 1-3 are lower than this average range, and stanines 7-9 are higher than the average range.

If there is any information or aspect of your child's report that you do not understand or would like further clarification about, or if you are having difficulty accessing your child's report, please contact your child's whānau teacher.

Warm regards,

The Amesbury Team