Student Reporting

  • At Whitby Collegiate, to regularly communicate about our students’ progress, grades are published to KAMAR when they are available. On Monday evenings, after a grade has been published to KAMAR, parents/caregivers and students will receive an automatically generated email with a summary of those grades. Full published results are always available on the KAMAR portal. Click here for instructions on how to access the KAMAR Parent Portal.

    Alongside grade reporting, students will also receive fortnightly Class Efforts summaries. Every two weeks, for two behaviours, students will receive a descriptor (Always / Usually / Sometimes / Rarely) from every subject teacher. Participates with effort and engagement will be reported on every fortnight over the year. For Term 1, while positive habits are being established, we report on how students are Prepared for learning. From Term 2, the focus will change to how students are On track for academic growth. These updates are published directly to the KAMAR portal, with an automatically generated email sent to parents/caregivers and students on Friday evenings. On the KAMAR portal you will be able to see Class Efforts trends across the year.

    For some subject areas, and the occasional assessment, subject teachers may make additional comments next to published grades. Comments will be brief and provide specific feedback linked to either Achievement Standards (in the senior school) or curriculum objectives and/or learning (in the junior school). The comments will be more informal than those found in formal reports.

  • Whitby Collegiate issues formal reports twice a year.

    The Mid Year Progress Report will be published to the KAMAR portal at the end of Term 2.

    The End of Year Report is live on the KAMAR portal for Senior students before the beginning of the NCEA examinations, and for Junior students on the day after their last day of the academic year.

    Your child’s Tutor Teacher will comment on their progress over the year, and give Tutor Group Attribute descriptors towards:

    • Punctuality,

    • Personal Presentation,

    • Personal Organisation Skills, and

    • Participation and Contribution.

    Additionally, there will be a list of your child’s Activities and Achievements for the year.

    Subject teachers give subject specific descriptors towards:

    • Effort,

    • Organisation, and

    • Engagement.

    At the end of the year, subject teachers will also provide details about areas of strength, areas of challenge, assessment results, and comments about next learning steps as appropriate. For senior students preparing for examinations, comments will provide specific feedforward about preparation for success for the external assessments.

    For students in Year 10, the EoY report can help guide decisions about NCEA courses next year. We have different pathways through NCEA to help students structure their learning according to their needs. More information and assistance will be provided to help students through this pathway.

    Subject selection for the following academic year will be available from Term 3, with conditional subject changes following consultation into the start of the new academic year.

  • These are opportunities to meet your child’s subject teachers face-to-face and get a brief synopsis of their progress. There are two opportunities for Parent Teacher Interviews per year, and students are encouraged to attend along with their parents/caregivers. More information regarding booking interview times is in the newsletter and sent via email before each PTI evening.

  • Achievement Standards and Collegiate Diploma Units are graded as Not Achieved (N), Achieved (A), Achieved with Merit (M), or Achieved with Excellence (E). NCEA Levels 2 & 3 Achievement Standards are both internally assessed by the school, and externally assessed (by national examinations at the end of the year, or submitted portfolios). Students learn towards the externally assessed standards throughout the year. Teachers may comment on and give progress grades towards both internally and externally assessed standards over the course of the year. The grade and credits gained at NCEA Level 2+ will be reported to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) and will appear on the student’s Record of Achievement.

Year 7-10 Assessment Guide

Whitby Collegiate reports on junior progression using Common Progress Descriptors for the appropriate Year Level. The reporting system we have chosen aims to retain continuity between primary, intermediate, and secondary education.

Reporting to Year Level within Phase:

Students will be given a level: Emerging, Developing, Consolidating, Proficient, and Exceeding. This reflects where they are in relation to a set of skills expected of their year level.

Progress Level for a unit of work is holistic and uses Overall Teacher Judgement (OTJ). 

Additionally, students will be given a standardised AsTTle Reading and AsTTle Mathematics result, according to Curriculum Level. This will be phased out in 2027 and will be replaced with a new Assessment Tool.

  • End of Year 7: 4B - 4A

  • End of Year 8: 4P - 5B

  • End of Year 9: 4A - 5P

  • End of Year 10: 5B - 6B

Within each Curriculum Level there are sub-levels that students progress through. These are illustrated below:

B = Beginner: the student is working at the beginning of the Curriculum Level.
P = Proficient: the student consistently and confidently meets the Curriculum Level.
A = Advanced: The student has mastered the skill or understanding at that Curriculum Level, and is ready to move to the next Curriculum Level.

While Level 4 is appropriate for most students and most subjects at Years 7 and 8, and Level 5 for Years 9 and 10, there are some exceptions as follows:

  • Students with special learning needs,

  • Students who are learning a subject for the first time at college (for example, a second language) are unlikely to follow these trends.

Year 11 is essentially Level 6 of the Curriculum. Students in Year 11 at Whitby Collegiate work towards The Collegiate Diploma.