Aiza‘s parent teacher interview ~ information sheet
Parent names: blah and blah Teacher: Jasmin Smerdon.
Date/ Time: 3:15pm Monday General Capabilities (Critical and Creative
Thinking) and Investigations:
General Capabilities (Literacy) – SMART
Developing confident, curious and passionate
goals, strengths and weaknesses.
learners who have the ability to think critically and
Developing effective communicators who are
creatively. These skills will be explicitly taught and
fluent in a variety of the 100 languages of the
consolidated during our Investigation sessions.
child.
Reading strategy: chunking letters and sounds
Effective Participator: persists with challenges,
Writing strategy: finger spaces
resilient, identifies issues, finds solutions, confidently
Phonological awareness: sound sequences
communicates their ideas to others, gets involved in
Oral (expressive) language: excellent
all learning tasks, and has a Growth Mindset.
Receptive language: excellent
This is the ability to understand information. It Green Rule: Be brave! Participate to progress.
involves understanding the words, sentences
and meaning of what others say or what is read.
Creative Thinker: curious, imaginative, resourceful,
makes connections, takes creative risks, and asks
questions.
General Capabilities (Numeracy) – SMART
goals, strengths and weaknesses.
Independent Enquirer: explores an inquiry
Number sense: subitising, counting to/from 20,
question, evaluates evidence, stays objective, and
counting on from any number, problematised
reaches a conclusion.
situations (open-ended word problems)
Shape: identifying, sorting and describing 1D Reflective Learner: Sets goals and challenges,
and 2D shapes shares learning with others, invites feedback, and
General Capabilities (ICT) technologies follows a plan-do-review method with projects.
curriculum and STEM:
We are working with Deanne’s Year 2/3 class on General Capabilities (Personal and Social
a dancing Ozobot investigation. We have been Capability):
learning how to operate these colour sensing Developing social skills, independence, decisions
robots and have had to use our problem solving making skills, a strong sense of identity, a strong
skills to teach them how to dance using colour sense of wellbeing and an understanding of
codes and iPads. We have designed costumes themselves as a learner.
for our Ozobot’s dance and are following a
plan-do-review method with this project. Team Workers: taking responsibility, building team
Our STEM unit is called ‘catching the weather strengths, managing and evaluating the team,
and seasons with our senses’. and getting along with team mates.
Red Rule: Pursue your personal best no matter
General Capabilities (Intercultural who you work with.
Understanding) and History/Spanish Golden Rule: Treat others as you would like them
curriculum: to treat you.
During history and Spanish we have been
learning about families. We have been General Capabilities (Ethical Understanding)
investigating similarities and differences within and behaviour:
family structures and celebrations. We are Developing listening skills, routines, and a solid
learning to connect with and contribute to our understanding of strong and weak behavioural
world in positive ways. choices.
Other comments or concerns: Self-Manager: organised, self-motivated,
focused, manages emotions, manages
Aiza is a friendly, responsible and polite member distractions, and completes all learning tasks to
of our class. She has developed a good their best ability.
friendship network and is a positive role model Yellow Rule: It takes great strength to be sensible.
for her peers. She has shown excellent Blue Rule: Have reasons for the things you say/do.
academic growth this term and I look forward Purple Rule: Self-mastery! Self regulation! Be the
to watching this continue throughout the year.
boss of your brain and body!
