Teaching and Learning

Teaching and Learning with Mr. Baker

Hi Families, 

Thank you for joining us on Thursday 20th July for our Three Way Learning Conferences. Making time to celebrate the achievements of our students, acknowledge their challenges, and reflect on how they continue to grow and learn is a highlight on our yearly calendar. Our teachers are so proud of each and every student and we hope that you enjoyed having the chance to sit down and discus the growth of your child with us. 

NAPLAN 2023

Parents of Grade 5 & 3 students will soon be receiving their student's individual Naplan results.  For individual students, NAPLAN is a one-off test that doesn’t account for many skills and talents students have or even for the simple fact that a student may simply have a good day or a bad day on a test day that impacts their results positively or negatively. Test-taking is an important skill to develop and we encourage all students to do their best, however, the greater value we get from NAPLAN is looking at how our teaching has fared in relation to our overall cohorts of students.

As a cohort, our students have done a terrific job in all curriculum areas. We were particularly proud of their achievements in Numeracy, which had us achieving ahead of similar schools. Our improvement in numeracy is a reflection of the skills students have in this area. Developing students' skills in numeracy has been a focus of the past 12 months of professional learning as a staff.  So whilst there is far more to learning than one standardised test for our students, it was great to see the improvement and success of our cohorts of students.