Meet our Continuous Reporting team

This edition’s ‘Meet the staff’ profile goes behind the scenes of our new reporting process

As Santa Sabina embraces technological innovations and educational improvements, 2025 has been the year when Continuous Reporting has been introduced. Operating for only a few weeks, the system will soon be providing immediate feedback to parents in real time. Continuous Reporting is known to lead to enhanced education outcomes.

Continuous Reporting at Santa Sabina is currently in place for students in Years 7 to 11, with plans to extend this to other Year levels in the future. This innovative approach offers several benefits:

• Timely feedback: Progress reports are issued upon task completion and assessment, enabling teachers and families to quickly identify areas for improvement.
• Online access: Results are accessible via the secure Veritas Online portal, with feedback posted approximately two weeks after task submission.
• More detailed data: Previously, student progress over time was measured only via the A-E grading system. More detailed data collection is now possible so that more nuanced support can be given to students’ learning.

Students (and their families) will soon be receiving weekly updates from teachers once tasks and assessments are completed. In mid-year, students will receive an end-of-semester report summarising their assessment tasks, a cumulative A-E grade for each subject, a pastoral report, attendance records, and a snapshot of co-curricular activities.

To provide timely feedback at the start of the academic year, Santa Sabina is also introducing a Term 1 Interim Report. This report will detail students’ work ethic and diligence. High performing students will receive Diligence Awards in Term 2.

Behind the implementation of Continuous Reporting has been a team of senior educators with diverse skill sets:

John Gilmore

Overseeing the project and ensuring alignment with educational goals has been our Deputy Principal Operations John Gilmore who has been working on the implementation of this system for two years. He instituted a similar system at another school and also spent the last two years researching the best option for Santa Sabina. His Bachelor of Business in Logistics and Operations has certainly been useful! For John, the end user experience is vital and he has put together a highly-qualified team which is focused on that outcome.

John is also a PDHPE teacher and keen rugby enthusiast. He has mostly adapted to life in NSW after moving from Queensland to take up the position at Santa Sabina although he still supports the Broncos in the NRL!

Jacqueline Pugh

Our Deputy Principal Teaching and Learning, Jacqueline Pugh, has a well-documented interest in assessment and data tracking and has worked alongside John in overseeing this important project. During her time as a Head of School in a girls school in Victoria, Jacqueline Implemented continuous reporting with great success. At Santa Sabina she somehow finds time to teach Visual Art and her experience is backed up with her Master of Instructional Leadership, a Bachelor of Teaching (Visual Arts) and Postgraduate Diplomas in Psychology and History. When not at work, Jacqueline reads the latest educational literature and autobiographies and creates her own art.

Tony Shen

Once Tony Shen, Dean of Data and Information Systems and teacher of Technology joined the staff of Santa Sabina in 2024, the technological requirements for implementing Continuous Reporting were stepped up and championed. With his Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering and extensive experience, Tony is responsible for integrating Continuous Reporting into VO and our Parent Lounge and liaising with parents on its operation – anyone who has consulted him will be well aware of his enthusiasm for the new system! Tony is committed to as much world travel as he can manage in school holidays, with family outside of Australia an important influence on his destinations.

Robert Graham

Our Dean of Administration, Robert Graham, is in charge of reporting and user experience, when not fine-tuning each day’s timetabling for the whole school or in the classroom teaching senior Physics. With a Master’s degree in Education, he sees the virtue of the new Continuous Reporting system as the ability to see real student performance not just raw marks.

‘Once we can see what the data tells us it can be used by teachers to design better learning experiences,’ he says.

Two little-known facts about Robert are his love of dogs and his determination to become a better drummer.

The progressive and ongoing feedback now in place thanks to this energetic team is improving the education outcomes for our students as well as the assessment protocols for use by our teachers.

Victoria Harper
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