Report Card Letter to Parents

Dear Parents/Guardians

As part of our efforts to be a 21st century learning school, we want to advise you about our new progress reporting procedures.
Starting next week (and over the next few weeks – hopefully by November 1st, 2010) you shall receive via email (or paper copy if you do not have access to an email account) electronic reports on your child’s marks-progress in all subjects. Each subject teacher will periodically send to you a quick snap-shot of your child’s progress. This process will help compliment the multiple ways (signing of tests, communication folders, etc…) teachers provide your child and you with information on their location in the learning process.
The staff at George Street Middle School wants you to see these grades as changeable bench marks to inform you and your child of their progress in learning. We hope more frequent and timely information will help all our students make better decisions on what they need to do to demonstrate mastery in particular units and strands.
The first set of grades will represent our early work in assessing student prior knowledge and some of the first units that tend to be of an easier nature. As we accumulate work, it is expected that the marks will reflect a truer picture of your child’s progress.
We will also have the following formal reporting periods:
- Interim Report on Student Work Habits – November 19th, 2010
- Parent-Teacher Interviews – Evening November 25th and Morning November 26th, 2010
- Term 1 Report Card – January 28th, 2011
- Interim Report 2 on Student Work Habits – April 1st, 2011
- Parent Teacher Interviews, Evening April 7th and Morning April 8th, 2011
- Term 2 Report Card – June 24th, 2011
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher or email pierre.plourde@nbed.nb.ca .
Thank you for your support,