Welcome to Week 6 of Term 3.

Student Assessment and Reporting
at Renmark High School

In our continued endeavour towards reporting in an ongoing way throughout the year, we encourage you to check Daymap for teacher feedback on assessments. By keeping track of student progress on Daymap you are able to support your student in an ongoing way to make changes in their efforts, or to challenge themselves to achieve at a higher level. In Daymap you will currently find traffic light indicators for week 5. We encourage you to use these to prompt conversations with your student about their progress at school. Please do not hesitate to contact teachers at the school with any concerns or questions, especially if you see a yellow or red rating.

We strongly encourage your attendance at the upcoming parent teacher interviews (see details in this newsletter). These interviews are a great chance for teachers, students and their parents/caregivers to discuss student achievement, progress, and goal setting for the remainder of the year. Interviews are not only for students who aren't progressing as well as expected, they are just as valuable to discuss the learning and skill development of students who are already performing to a high standard. 

We offer these interviews in term 3 to give time for students to put new goals and actions in place to improve results during the remainder of semester two.  Use the online booking system now to reserve your preferred time slots. 

Student Success

A huge congratulations to Renmark High School student, Sakina Q for winning SA Training Awards School-based Trainee of the Year for 2022. We are very proud of her amazing achievement. 

Student Learning

The 'Lifting Up Not Holding Back – Learner Entitlement' conference on student education, presented by the Secondary Schools Principals Association that I attended recently reinforced the great work done by Renmark High School staff every single day. The theme was 'Inclusion' and reinforced how important it is for schools to provide the teaching and learning for our young people that will enable them to be successful. Listening to speakers and participating in the workshops, I was able to reflect on the amazing things that are already happening in our school for students.  I will share some more details in future newsletters, however, in the meantime I would like to recognise our staff’s fantastic efforts in our school improvement work in catering for the individual needs of our students and look forward to our continued success developing our learning environment with students as a focus.

Thank you

Mat Evans
Principal