On Monday 15 September, teaching staff were involved in an Assessment Rubric Development and Application Professional Learning Day.

In response to the recent School Review feedback, and with our ongoing commitment to strengthening school culture, the Curriculum Leadership Team worked in two Action Teams (a Grade Scale Action Team and an Assessment Rubric Action Team) from January this year. They focused on developing a revised assessment rubric and grade scale for use across the school. Following the Teams’ findings, the Deputy Principal (Learning and Teaching) and the Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy brought together the Action Teams’ work into templates and guiding documentation.

This Professional Learning Day:

• shared an overview of the Action Teams’ findings with teachers;
• presented the revised rubric and grade scale;
• offered practical workshops on designing the effective rubric components of indicators and quality criteria;
• provided teachers time to begin drafting updated Term 1, 2026 rubrics.

The Assessment Rubric Development and Application Professional Learning Day aligned with Goal 1 of our Annual Action Plan: “To improve student achievement and access to the curriculum by developing and implementing clear assessment rubrics in all year levels.” In addition, teacher feedback collected through our recent Peer Observation process identified ‘provision of feedback’ as the most common area of interest. Strengthening our assessment rubrics directly supports this priority by enabling clearer, more effective feedback for students.

Images of our teaching staff participating in the workshops are below:

Further information about our updated assessment rubrics and grade scale will be shared at the beginning of 2026.

Thank you,
Elise Nowak
Deputy Principal Learning and Teaching on behalf of the Curriculum Leadership Team