PARENT ENGAGEMENT
There are opportunities throughout the year for parents to visit school or participate in activities with their children, including:
- Parents as Partners Classroom Visits
- Celebrations of Learning
- Early Years Musical Celebrations
- The Grades 3 and 4 Spring Musical Celebration
- Primary School Band and Choir Concert
- Family Day of Service on MLK Weekend
ASSESSMENT
At WIS, we believe assessment practices need to be rigorous, diverse, and research-based. We believe the goal of assessment is to gather valuable information about teaching and learning, in order to support students and to inform instruction. WIS meaningfully assesses its students and curriculum using multiple measures, such as portfolios, observations, conferences, reading inventories, and report cards.
Primary School assessments is available on the final page of THIS DOCUMENT. WIS also administers the ERB test to students in Grades 3 to 5 in order to:
- Inform teaching/instruction
- Help understand a student’s learning profile and support students’ growth
- Give students experience with taking a standardized test
- rovide parents with an external academic assessment of their children
It is essential to remember that a standardized test is only one measure of a student’s ability or progress and must be viewed as a part of the whole. The results are a snapshot of a child at a specific moment and provide a way to see areas of strength and areas for growth.