Learning & Teaching

NAPLAN 2025 schedule for Grade 3 and 5 students

Writing - Wednesday 12th March at 9am

Reading - Thursday 13th March at 9am

Conventions of Language - Monday 17th March at 9am

Mathematics - Tuesday 18th March at 9am

Public demonstration site

The public demonstration tests show the types of questions students will answer and the functionalities that are available in NAPLAN tests. 

Students can do the standard tests or they can do a test with accessible alternative items:

• The visual alternative tests include some items with simplified images (numeracy and reading).
• The tests with audio alternative items have text-based items instead of audio dictation items (conventions of language).
• The colour theme tests have different coloured fonts and backgrounds (all domains).

To try the demonstration tests,clink this link and use the buttons below to choose a year level and then a NAPLAN domain: writing, reading, conventions of language (spelling, grammar and punctuation) or numeracy. Please note that answers are not provided. As all Year 3 students complete the writing test on paper, there is no Year 3 writing demonstration test.

For all online tests, once ‘finish’ is selected or time has run out, the student’s responses will be submitted and will no longer be able to be viewed. 

What’s new in the demonstration tests?

There is now a narrative task and a persuasive task for students to practise. Only one of these tasks will be tested each year, and this will be revealed on the day of the assessment.

Students will now start the conventions of language test with the spelling items and finish with the grammar and punctuation items. 

There are now different narrator voices for the audio items. Some students may benefit from listening to the voice change from one item to another. They can do so by listening to the numeracy items or the audio dictation items in the conventions of language tests. 

Grade 3/4s learning about 'Country'.

During Inquiry this week 3/4's were learning about 'Country'

We learnt that we are on Boon Wurrung Country and we discussed how that this stretches from the Werribee River all the way around the bay to Wilson's Prom.  We discussed how the term Country has a deeper meaning to Indigenous Australians as it is all about their connection to the land, seas, skies, waterways and their connections to their past.

3/4NC created collages of our interpretation of Country and did a spectacular job!

Josy Reeder

Learning & Teaching Leader