Learning and Teaching 

Dear Parents,

This year our Year Three and Year Five students will participate in NAPLAN in March. 

NAPLAN is a national literacy and numeracy assessment that students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit each year. It is the only national assessment all Australian students have the opportunity to undertake.

NAPLAN assesses the literacy and numeracy skills that students are learning through the school curriculum and allows parents/carers to see how their child is progressing against national standards and over time.

NAPLAN is just one aspect of a school’s assessment and reporting process. It doesn’t replace ongoing assessments made by teachers about student performance, but it can provide teachers with additional information about students’ progress.

NAPLAN also provides schools, education authorities and governments with information about how education programs are working and whether young Australians are achieving important educational outcomes in literacy and numeracy.

St Joseph’s School will participate in online NAPLAN tests, except for Year 3 Writing. Online tests provide more precise results and are more engaging for students. One of the main benefits is that it is tailored (or adaptive) testing, where the test presents questions which may be more or less difficult depending on a student’s responses.

Tailored testing allows a wider range of student abilities to be assessed and measures student achievement more precisely. A student’s overall NAPLAN result is based on both the number and complexity of questions they answer correctly. Your child should not be concerned if they find questions challenging; they may be taking a more complex test pathway. 

St Joseph’s Naplan Timetable for Year 3 & Year 5 students:

Wednesday 15th March: Writing @ 9:30am

Thursday 16th March: Reading @ 9:30am 

                                              Language Conventions @ 11:45am 

Friday 17th March: Mathematics @ 9:30am

Monday 20th - Wednesday 22nd March: Catch up tests for students who were absent for NAPLAN testing.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Regards,

Megan Barber

mbarber@sjsorrento.catholic.edu.au