Each year at St Michael's we have a focus on specific improvement priority areas. The strategic approach to improvement is a way for the school to focus its professional learning time, resources and management in the right areas in order to have a positive impact on student learning, wellbeing and faith development.

This year teachers have been working on creating a common understanding of quality assessment practises. What are they? How they should inform practice and how they can be used effectively to share progress on learning and identify next steps in learning.

This term teachers have engaged in planning meetings with a focus on collaboratively creating maths assessments that allow students to develop their mathematical reasoning skills.

To ensure consistent teacher judgement across the school, student work samples were collaboratively marked. This collaborative process was very effective, allowing teachers to use this data to plan effective teaching and learning.