NAPLAN 2024

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This year we are once again preparing to undertake the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). As students progress through their school years, it’s important to check how well they are learning the essential skills of reading, writing and numeracy.

NAPLAN assesses the literacy and numeracy skills that students are learning through the school curriculum and allows parents/carers to see how their child is progressing against national standards and over time. All assessments are online and will be completed on laptops, apart from the Year 3 writing component, which will be handwritten by those students.

The official NAPLAN testing period was brought forward to Term 1 in 2023, allowing schools and parents to receive the results earlier than previously. In 2024, all students in Years 3 and 5 will be participating in the assessments between 13th and 25th March.

As always, we remind families that NAPLAN is just one aspect of our assessment and reporting process. You can support your child by reassuring them that NAPLAN is another part of their school program and encouraging them to simply do their best.

On Tuesday 27th  February, we will be conducting a NAPLAN Nationally Coordinated Practice Test with selected classes from Years 3 and 5. Students will participate in a 45-minute writing assessment or answer a set of numeracy, language convention and reading questions. The purpose of the practice test is to confirm our school's ICT capacity and the logistics of administering NAPLAN later in the term. It will not be used as an assessment of children's literacy and numeracy skills.

Further information about NAPLAN online and the public demonstration site can be found at https://www.nap.edu.au/

Students in Year 3 and 5 will have an opportunity to become familiar with the public demonstration site at school prior to NAPLAN, and may also like to explore it further at home.

For more information about the NAPLAN online, visit NAP - What's in the tests

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