St. Anthony Connects the week of October 20 – 24

Tracking a cohort - grade 6 school results

Tracking a cohort – grade 6 Board results

Tracking a cohort grade 6 - School results

Tracking a cohort grade 6 – School results

Continuing our series on EQAO – Tracking a cohort – Grade 6 our school compared to the OCSB Board.  Take a good look at these two charts.  In the areas of reading, writing and math, students at St. Anthony are compared with their fellow students across the school board.

The data is interesting – here are some points about St. Anthony and the school board:

Math 12% of St. Anthony students did not meet the standard in Grade 3 but met it in Grade 6

5% of OCSB students did not meet the standard in Grade 3 but met it in Grade 6

Writing  88% of St. Anthony students met the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6

74% of OCSB met the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6

Reading 67% of OCSB students met the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6;

18% of OCSB  did not meet the standard in Grade 3 but met it in Grade 6;

38% of St. Anthony students met the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6;

62% of St. Anthony Students did not meet the standard in Grade 3 but met it in Grade 6;

tracking a cohort - reading

These are amazing results!  in writing our students have made huge gains in reading (62%) better gains in math than the OCSB (12% to 5%)

and 88% of students met provincial standards in writing in grade 3 and 6 while 74% of OCSB students met the standard in grades 3 and 6.

One area of concern – in writing, 12% of our students made the standard in grade 3 but failed to make the standard in grade 6

 

 

 

St Anthony this week

Monday, October 20

Squirmies today – 11:30

Tuesday, October 21

Waste Audit all day

National Science Week Presentation – grade 4/5 – 12:30

Boot Camp for School Councils 2014 – 6:45 Immaculata High School

Wednesday, October 22
Thursday, October 23

Lunchbox Lifesaver – CSPA Event REGISTER at : http://bit.ly/1uCSvO0 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

7:00 – 8:30 PM St. George School

Friday, October 24
Parent Guest Reading Session Ms. Rupnik’s class

Shayna Tate Art Exhibit Oct 24 – 7:30 PM Shayna, our mural artist will be holding an Art Exhibit with 3 other artists on Friday October 24th 7-9pm at 255 McKay in New Edinburgh. There is no charge. Art will be for viewing and for sale.

Teacher Notes for this week:

Ms. Rupnik’s Class: This week in the Primary Language Class, we will begin work on recount writing. Recount writing allows students to retell events from their weekend and describe past experiences. We will continue our Social Language activities, focusing on the theme of caring and sharing.

Ms. Colaiacovo’s class grade 4/5: students in the grade 4/5 class will be participating in a NRC  workshop on Tuesdayafternoon in recognition of National Science and Technology Week.

Ms.Manzoli’s class: Info for gr. 2/3 class:

Reminder homework is due on Tuesday. Remember to make razkids part of home reading. Work on your mathletics , focusing on addition and subtraction strategies.

M. Girard: Gr. 2/3 How to present our Go Map (schéma du récit)

Gr.4/5  Back to basis: usage du masculin, féminin et du pluriel
Gr.5/6 Lettre à Lucie (On a trouvé son chat)
Gr.4 Immersion Rédaction et présentation d’un montre et raconte: mon objet précieux

 Upcoming events: Carved Pumpkin raffle!

Each class will receive a pumpkin  (Friday, October 24)
Each class is to decide how they want to carve their pumpkin. (Monday, Oct 27)
Teachers/students prepare pumpkins and get them carved.(Mon/Tues Oct. 27, 28)
Finished pumpkins are on display on a table outside the office. (Tuesday Oct. 27)
Students/Teachers can vote for their favorite pumpkin.(Tuesday – Thursday
Raffle tickets will be sold by Grade 5/6 students.
One ticket for 25 cents or 5 for a loonie.
We can read out the winning numbers on the Friday morning announcements on the day of Hallowe’en.
The winners take home their pumpkins.

Fun2Run – the juniors will be doing their ‘ghost run’ on Thursday, October 30th!

Halloween – Oct 31 – all students are welcome to wear their costumes on October 31.  We also will have hip hop instruction on the Friday!

EQAO Results

Over the next few posts, I am going to feature in graphic form the EQAO results from 2013 – 2014 for grade 3 and 6.  We can learn a tremendous amount about our school community by reviewing and discussing these results.

Today – parent engagement in the areas of reading, computer use, agendas and generally talking about school.

 

EQAO Results

I am continuing presenting a series of slides for staff and parents on last year’s EQAO results.  Today, I am featuring two slides on parent engagement – what percentage of parents are involved in their sons and daughters education?  The results are based on the student questionnaires taken during testing last year.  What do these results tell us?

Parent engagement - grade 6
Parent engagement – grade 3 2014

While 62% of grade 3 students say they talk about school with their parents, only 19% say they read with their parents and 38% use a computer together on a regular basis.  Is there anything we can do to improve these results?  Do these results have an impact on our students’ scores?

Parent engagement Grade 6 2014
Parent engagement Grade 6 2014

 

If we look at the grade 6 results, we can see that 9% of students read with their parents one to three times a week, O% of parents read to their children daily.  Only 9% of parents use the computer with their children daily.  Clearly this is a trend that we have to take seriously.  Is there anything we can do to encourage parents to become more engaged in the work of their children?

This is something we all need to work on together if we want to improve our results on EQAO testing.  How can we do this?

Tomorrow – student attitudes towards reading and writing.