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Understanding Your Child's Progress: The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum and Our New Reporting Structure

We're excited to share important updates about how we're teaching and reporting on your child's learning. These changes are part of the nationwide refresh of the New Zealand Curriculum, designed to better support every child's educational journey.

The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum: What You Need to Know

Curriculum Rollout: Starting in 2025, our school began introducing the refreshed New Zealand Curriculum. This update brings new teaching approaches, assessment methods (not yet available for teachers), and learning content to enhance your child's experience. We are currently in a transition period with the new curriculum in draft form and full implementation expected by 2027.

What's Being Reported This Term: This term, you will receive reports for English (Reading and Writing) and Mathematics. These reports reflect the new curriculum while still referencing the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum as we make this shift.

Why Reports Look Different: Because of these changes, you will notice differences in how your child's progress and achievement are reported compared to previous years. This is a direct result of our updated approach to assessing, understanding, and sharing student learning.

What's New About the Reports?

Year Group Structure: With the introduction of our new curriculum, we've updated how our school is organised. We no longer use the traditional Junior, Middle, Senior, and Intermediate school divisions. Instead, our year groups are now structured into phases:

• Phase 1a: Year 0-1

• Phase 1b: Year 2-3

• Phase 2: Year 4-6

• Phase 3: Year 7-8

This new structure replaces our previous organization of:

• Junior School (Year 0-2)

• Middle School (Year 3-4)

• Senior School (Year 5-6)

• Intermediate (Year 7-8)

From Curriculum Levels to Year Levels: Previously, reports used "curriculum levels." Now, progress is reported using year levels. This means the visual progression of tick boxes across past years will no longer appear.

Grey Shaded Boxes: You may notice that your child's checkmark appears in a row indicating a previous year's proficiency level (e.g., a Year 3 student's checkmark might be in the 'Yr 2 Proficient' row). Please don’t be alarmed, this does not mean they are behind. The grey shaded boxes on your child's report indicate that your child is "on track" for their year. For example, a Year 3 student whose checkmark is in the 'Yr 2 Proficient' row (which is grey-shaded) is considered 'on track' because they have mastered the previous year's learning and are continuing to progress within their current year's expectations. 

Proficient: The word "Proficient" appears after a Year level (e.g., "Yr 1 Proficient" or "Yr 6 Proficient"). This indicates that your child has demonstrated a strong understanding and mastery of the learning expectations for that particular year's curriculum.

Old vs. Refreshed Curriculum Levels: A Comparison

To help you understand the shift, here's how the old curriculum levels relate to the new refreshed year levels:

Developing Our New Reporting Structure

Interim Progress Descriptors for 2025: To help you understand your child’s learning during this transition, we are using interim progress descriptors in 2025.

How to Read the New Reports (for Reading, Writing, and Mathematics):

NZ Curriculum Year Progression Outcomes: These outline the expected learning progressions based on the new curriculum.

• Mid / End of Year Indicators: Two checkpoints will show progress at the mid and end points of the school year.

• Mid-Year (☑): A checkmark here indicates that your child has met at least 50% of the learning expectations for the year.

• End of Year (☑): Indicates achievement by the end of the school year achieved 80% of the learning expectations for the year.

• Checkmarks (☑): These show the point your child is currently achieving within the curriculum.

How Teachers Make Judgements: Teachers use a wide range of information to make these judgements, including performance across different strands and sub-strands within each subject. They also use standardised tools such as GLOSS, running records, and e-asTTle, which are now able to be mapped to the refreshed curriculum to support consistency and accuracy in reporting.

Year 7 and 8 Assessment Data

Supplementary Report: Students in Phase 3 Years 7 and 8 will receive a smaller supplementary report at their Student Parent Teacher (SPT) conference. This will include a summary of e-asTTle assessment data useful for high school applications and transitions. Along with an assessment of extracurricular areas.

How You Can Support at Home

Your involvement at home is essential to your child’s success. We encourage you to talk with your child about their learning, celebrate their efforts, set goals and reflect on the information during your student led conference. For more guidance and resources, visit the official New Zealand Curriculum website or the Google folder link below. We value your continued partnership in your child’s learning journey and look forward to supporting their progress together.

Google Folder including Maths and Reading support at home. Along with Novel ideas for students.

Message for Whānau from the Ministry of Education:

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