Curriculum- Teaching and Learning 

If you wish to hear more about curriculum, teaching, and learning across our school, please contact: 

Melinda Rowe

Assistant Principal - Curriculum and Pedagogy

m: 0467 290 948

melinda.rowe@education.vic.gov.au

School Wide Teaching and Learning

In each edition of our school newsletter, we share with our community an insight into the curriculum being taught within our classrooms. This reflects our school's strong focus upon continuous improvement. 

Each edition covers a different area of the curriculum, and is supported by our school-wide approaches to teaching and learning. 

In this edition we provide you with a summary of the upcoming NAPLAN assessments. 

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an annual assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.

It is a nationwide measure through which parents/carers, teachers, schools, education authorities, governments and the broader community can determine whether or not young Australians are developing the literacy and numeracy skills that provide the critical foundation for other learning and for their productive and rewarding participation in the community.

NAPLAN results allow parents/carers and educators to see how students are progressing in literacy and numeracy over time – individually, as part of their school community, and against national standards.  

The tests support monitoring and evaluating of the performance of schools and school systems in these fundamental capabilities. They also provide schools, states and territories with information about how education approaches are working, areas to be prioritised for improvement, and those schools requiring support in the teaching and learning of literacy and numeracy.

The results can assist teachers by providing additional information to support their professional judgement about students’ levels of literacy and numeracy attainment and progress.

NAPLAN tests are one aspect of each school’s assessment and reporting process and do not replace the extensive, ongoing assessments made by teachers about each student’s performance. Each teacher will have the best insight into their students’ educational progress. Parents/carers can use NAPLAN reports, along with other school assessment reports, to discuss their child’s strengths and areas for improvement with their teacher. 

NAPLAN is made up of tests in the four areas (or ‘domains’) of:

• reading - Students read a range of informative, imaginative and persuasive texts and then answer related questions
• writing - Students are provided with a 'writing stimulus' and asked to write a response in a particular genre (narrative or persuasive writing)
• conventions of language - This test assesses spelling, grammar and punctuation
• numeracy - This test assesses number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability

NAPLAN DATES

If you know that your child will be absent on any of these dates, please let Melinda Rowe to organise a catch up session. Please note that catch-up sessions must be completed within the test window. Year Three Writing catch-ups can only be completed up until Monday 17th March.  

If you have any questions or concerns about your child completing NAPLAN, please contact your child's classroom teacher.

If you would like to view the types of questions that may be assessed, please have a look at the following links.

Year Three

https://pages.assessform.edu.au/pages/year-3-demos

Year Five

https://pages.assessform.edu.au/pages/year-5-demos

If you would like to discuss the upcoming NAPLAN assessments, please make initial contact with your child's class teacher.