You may have seen or heard recently that the Ministry of Education is developing assessment protocols for primary schools. Until these are finalised and made available to school, we have made our own decisions about the tools we will use for assessment in 2025 and how we Report to Parents.

This year, at our Mid-Year interviews, parents will receive updates on their child’s Reading, Writing and Maths progress. The refreshed curriculum documents for Literacy and Maths now contain phases 1–2, so we are looking at how we can report to whānau using these, instead of progression matrices.

The End of Year written reports will contain Maths and Literacy progress and achievement, RIDE and Active Learner skills, extracurricular achievements and a general comment. Other curriculum areas reported on will have a tick box to show the curriculum level that your child is working at, as phases have not yet been introduced for most of these learning areas.

New reporting which we are excited to introduce this year is “Just in time” reporting, for curriculum areas such as Arts, Social Sciences, Technology and Science. Each term we will choose 1 or 2 curriculum areas to report progress to whānau via HERO. We will be using a standardised template so that the content and formatting is consistent at each year level. The first post will be for Social Sciences and PE; please check Hero for communication and/or updated content at the beginning of term 2.

2025 is very much a transition year for schools in terms of reporting. As always, we welcome parent feedback, so that together, we develop a very robust Reporting to Parents model for Rewa Rewa School learners.