Fiscal Year 2014 Weathersfield School Report Card and Progress Reporting System

Weathersfield School is making some important changes to our report cards and the way we report student progress in FY 14, (next year).  Students in grades K-4 will have an electronic standards based report card starting this fall.  We will still have four quarters as marking periods, as usual, and the reporting dates are the same and can be found on the FY 14 calendar sent to families a month ago.  The teachers need to become familiar with PowerSchool Grading and all of the Common Core Standards for all subject areas in K-4. 

Owing to the complexity of this new system,  there will be no progress reports from teachers in grades K-4 until the third mid-term closes on February 28^th, and only for at risk or failing students.  Students in K-4 will have regular report cards sent home in November and January, and the last two quarters.  Parents will still be able to contact teachers to see how their children are doing and parent-teacher conferences will be held as usual in November.  The teachers will be assessing students on new in depth standards and this takes time and practice.  The change will be in the look of the report card and how often we report out mid-term grades for K-4.  We are in the emergent stages of these many changes, so we will do our best to make it a smooth transition.  Though we are using PowerSchool to document grading in K-4 in FY 14, the parent portal will NOT be open until FY 15 for many reasons. 

Teachers in grades 5-8 used PowerSchool Grading this year, so they are familiar with the process.  The parent portal WILL be open on PowerSchool this fall, so there will be no need to send progress reports home four times a year, as has been the practice.  Teachers will keep student grades up to date, so a parent can access their child's progress electronically, at any point in the year. Report cards will still go home four times a year, see FY 14 calendar for the dates of the four quarters.  Any parent who does not have access to their child's grades electronically, please let your child's teacher know and a hard copy of a progress report can be made available to you. Numerical numbers for effort will no longer be on the report cards so they will not be used to determine eligibility for sports and extracurricular activities.

This whole system is new and complicated and like anything new, it may have nuances that are different and maybe even confusing.  We ask for your patience and support as we move forward to perfect this new reporting system.  If you have any questions, please feel free to call Principal Oakman at the school at 674-5400.