Briar Hill School - Calgary Board of Education

Briar Hill November 2013school development plan highlightsOutcomes from our 2012 – 2013 School Development Plan*• Students have an increased understanding of content and develop metacognitiveawareness through engagement in critical thinking tasks.o Achievement Measure• Pre and post assessment of Metacognitive Awareness Inventory• Monitor report card stems (grades l-6) for each reporting period forimprovement in the number of students moving up one report cardindicator in the following stems:a) Language Arts: Communicates information and ideas through rrepresenting (e.g models, diagrams, video, charts, etc.)-Communicates information and ideas through speaking.b) Math: Communicates understanding of mathematics throughwriting or speaking or using manipulatives, picturesc) Science: Communicates understanding of science throughwriting, speaking, models, picture, or demonstrationd) Social - Communicates understanding of social studies throughwriting, speaking, models, pictures, etc.Measures and Results 2012 – 2013*Our target for 2012-13 school year was an increase of 1% in student performance at thestandard of excellence on grade 3 and grade 6 Provincial Achievement Test results. Wedid not meet our target of a 1% increase in the standard of excellence in grade 3 LanguageArts. Our results indicate a drop of 2.5% in this category. We did not meet our target of l%increase in the standard of excellence in grade 3 Math where there was a l7.4% decrease.In grade 6 PAT results, student results exceeded the target in all areas. There was a yearover year increase in the standard of excellence in Language Arts of 36% , in Math of 32%,in Science of 25% and in Social Studies of 9%. These results are consistent with theachievement reported on the report card stems which indicate 77% of grade 6 studentsachieve 4’s and 5’s on the report card stems identified above and 68% of grade 3 studentsachieved 4’s and 5’s on the same report card stems. In grade 3, 3% of students achieved a2 in the area of mathematics. The report card stem communicates understanding a)Language Arts: Communicates information and ideas through representing (e.g models,diagrams, video, charts, etc.) and Communicates information and ideas through speakingdid not capture or reflect the decline in Provincial Achievement Test results in the area ofreading. Reading is being addressed through additional supports and services at theclassroom level.Provincial Achievement Tests (PAT)Acceptable Standard• Grade 3 Language Arts – 97.1% (province 92.0%)• Grade 3 Mathematics – 77.1% (province 82.8%)• Grade 6 Language Arts -100% (province 89.2%)• Grade 6 Mathematics – 95.7% (province 72.1%)• Grade 6 Social Studies – 91.3% (province 72.2%)• Grade 6 Science – 100% (province 77.1%)Page 2 | 5