Teaching & Learning Report 

NAPLAN  

Current results and overview of success 

Every 4 years, schools go through a review and a new School Strategic Plan is produced. 

One goal within our current School Strategic Plan is to improve student learning growth and achievement for all students in Years 7 – 12. 

Each year we set targets and strategies to meet the goals within our SSP. In 2025, our reading and numeracy targets are: 

Reading: 80% of students showing high and medium growth in Year 9 reading. 

Reading: to match the state average (60%) of students achieving exceeding or strong. 

Numeracy: move 5% of students (35%%) to the strong band. 

To meet these targets, we set strategies. The related strategy to the targets above is enhance the capacity of staff to develop and integrate quality curriculum, assessment, data literacy and instructional best practice. It’s a long winded way of stating that we will focus on key aspects of teaching and learning. 

Our recent NAPLAN data below, illustrates the current success of our students in the Numeracy and Reading space. 

Year 9 Reading 

Year 9 Numeracy 

The success of student achievement and learning growth when compared to Similar, Network and State schools is to be celebrated. Well done to our Year 7 and 9 students and all the staff and parents who have supported them this far. 

Staff Professional Learning 

Our staff have been continuing with their reflection, planning, refining and feedback gathering of the current instruction practice of gradual release; honing in on the technique of "think aloud'. 

The image below demonstrates our staff sharing their teaching practice, unpacking what they reflected on and how they refined that particular technique for greater student understanding. 

Articficial Inteligence (AI) in Assessments 

The use of AI continues to increase as it embeds its way into our daily lives. In education, we all still continue to learn about this; its capabilities, limitations and a growing understanding of its challenges. 

As we continue to learn about it collectively, we are further considering about how we teach students how to use AI, aiming to ensure they know its risks, the opportunities it creates and also how to ensure it doesn’t replace their ability to demonstrate their understanding of taught and learnt knowledge. 

In particular, the use of AI in assessments has continued to be an issue in schools. Being aware that although AI can be used in learning in certain situations, and as directed by the teacher, using it for assessments is not allowed. 

In VCE, this is especially important. The VCAA have very clear directions if there is a breach of assessment practices in VCE assessments that they instruct schools to follow. If this occurs the VCAA are clear on the potential outcome. These are: 

• a verbal or written warning 

• detention or suspension 

• refusal to consider the student’s work but an opportunity for the student to resubmit the work if there is sufficient time before the due date for submission of results according to the VCAA schedule 

• refusal to accept the part of the student’s work found to have been completed in contravention of VCAA rules and a subsequent determination of the appropriate result for the relevant outcome forming part of the VCE unit 

• refusal to accept any part of the work, awarding an N for the outcome. 

We will continue to consider and plan for how we teach students how to use AI in learning. A shared understanding of AI not being used to complete assessed work will help build our collective knowledge of AI use in schools.  

As we continue to get direction about AI in schools, we will share this with all. 

PISA Testing 

A range of Year 9-10 students completed the PISA Testing for 2025. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is conducted every three years and is a large-scale assessment that measures student performance in reading, mathematics and science. It is the largest survey in education in the world and compares student achievement across approximately 90 countries. 

2022 PISA Survey Results

Well done to our students who completed this.