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Feedback Week

This week is feedback week, which means your young person’s teachers will be providing an update on their learning progress. This may be accessed on Compass or you may receive a phone call, email or other communication. Feedback is important because it provides an acknowledgement of learning which has occurred and therefore the next steps in learning for the student.

You can help further the impact of this feedback on your child’s learning by checking the feedback they have received to date and discussing with them the three key dimensions of it.

1. “What went well?” – It is important to acknowledge the success and learning which was achieved.
2. “Even better if…” – This may be the small changes which could have been made to the task on which feedback is being given to demonstrate greater mastery.
3. “Next time…” – This is the description of next steps in the learning process.

If you can’t access your child’s feedback or have questions about it, please feel free to reach out to their teachers via Compass email.

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School Wide Positive Behaviour

5. Complete all set tasks to the best of your ability.
“I ask questions when I don’t understand” and “I make the most of all learning opportunities”.

Learning at Newcomb Secondary College comes in many different forms. From different teachers approaches to topics, the varied range of subjects you study, to applying your knowledge in the form of hands on tasks or excursions; all of these opportunities are there for you to help you learn and grow as a whole person.

Using the time you spend with your teachers to help develop a deeper and more thorough understanding of the learning is essential in you becoming the best version of yourself while at Newcomb Secondary College.

If you are ever unsure, use questions to help you get back on track. It is a powerful tool and teachers will regularly use it for a range of purposes, so take the opportunity to ask and answer questions. Effective questioning yields immediate feedback on your understanding, it supports informal and formative assessment and helps capture feedback on the effectiveness of teaching strategies.

Questioning opens up opportunities for you to discuss, argue, and express opinions and alternative points of view. It will help engage you, stimulate your interest and curiosity in learning, and can create links to your lives that you may have otherwise not known or realised.