Alliteration is one of many literary devices that can be found in HUMS work archived in expedition portfolios. This week in academic crew, Crew Young have been reviewing their learning, and collating work stored in this very valuable document.
Expedition portfolios provide documentary evidence of progress over time, of our students’ ability to draft and re-draft their work following constructive feedback from staff and students that is kind, specific and helpful. They are readily available to external visitors and fundamental to our Student-Led Conferences as they provide the basis upon which our students are empowered to articulate their learning, progress and academic attainment.
Complemented by digital portfolios, our students’ expedition portfolios will become increasingly important as Crew Young approach the beginning of Year 9 and face the challenges of “passage”. As Ron Berger observes in his book “Leaders of their Own Learning”:
“Creating a portfolio and sharing it with a caring but critical audience is a powerful rite of passage for students. It expands the impact of common school passage traditions…to include ones that celebrate academic growth and achievement, putting scholarship for every student at the centre. Passage presentations with portfolios give students the opportunity to demonstrate their achievement and growth and underscore the link among assessment, learning and student engagement”.