Naplan Results

Our Success

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority have now released NAPLAN data.

Results were posted out to the parents of students in Year 7 and Year 9, from the College last week. Should you by now not have received your results, it may be that the College does not have up-to-date address details. Parents should check (and, if necessary, update) address details on their Compass account.  As noted in previous newsletters, NAPLAN data does provide important systemic level data and does provide parents with a ‘snapshot’ of where their child is at, in terms of core numeracy and literacy skills at the test time (May).

The significant growth in the  achievement demonstrated by many of our students are a testament to the sound core skills and knowledge they have built in these areas and highlights the interventions introduced from the start of last year are having a positive effect.  

The College was acknowledged at a recent Outer Eastern Region literacy forum for the growth in our student learning. 

In the 2016 NAPLAN data for Reading, 21 % of the students in Year 7 in 2014 were in the highest achievement level.  In this year’s Naplan tests ,  52% of the same students are now in the highest level.  The growth in student literacy skills for these students were not just confined to reading, there was a growth of 15% in grammar and punctuation and 8% in writing.

I would like to acknowledge the commitment of our English teachers to quality teaching practice. They have engaged in the establishment of our instructional model and developed and delivered our guaranteed and viable curriculum and worked in collaborative teacher teams to develop the literacy skills of our students.  Our employment of a coach two days a week and the introduction of journaling this semester will further build the writing skills across the curriculum to provide a solid foundation for students who undertake VCE  in a few years.

While there has been growth in mathematics data since 2015, the full benefits of the work undertaken this year by our teachers with our new numeracy coach will be better represented in the 2017 test results.

Gail Major

Principal