NAPLAN Reports

During Term 1, students in Years 3, 5, 7 & 9 participated in the National Assessment Programme in Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN).  These tests were conducted by every school in Australia during March and covered the areas of Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) and Numeracy.

We received the hard copy of these reports from NESA at the start of this term and have since posted them on to parents/carers via mailing address we have on file. In the package, you will find a report providing you with information about the proficiency standard that your daughter has attained in each of the NAPLAN test domains this year. Since 2023, student performance in these domains has been reported against 4 levels of achievement. These levels are labelled: Exceeding, Strong, Developing and Needs Additional Support. Please refer to the enclosed information for parents on ‘How to read the student report’ for more detail about these standards.

In addition to identifying the proficiency standard into which your daughter falls, the individual report provided for each girl describes the knowledge and skills demonstrated by your daughter in these tests, as well as information about how your daughter’s results compare with the SCEGGS cohort and the overall performance of all Australian students. As was reported in the media at the time, there was a degree of technical disruption experienced by students in Years 5, 7 and 9 in the eastern states of Australia while undertaking the Writing Test this year. As a result, the school average has not been reported for any NSW School for any student undertaking the online writing test in NSW. It has, however, continued to be reported for Year 3 students.

If you have any questions or concerns about your daughter’s progress in Literacy or Numeracy or wish to discuss these results, please do not hesitate to contact one of us:

• In Primary: your daughter’s classroom teacher or Cristi Wilsmore (Deputy Head of Primary, Teaching and Learning)
• In Secondary: your daughter’s English or Mathematics teacher, the Head of Mathematics (Scott Lankshear) or the Head of English (Jenny Bean).

If for some reason you have not received your daughter’s NAPLAN package in the mail, please let Helen Dempsey know in the Primary School or myself (Amy Webb) for all secondary students, and we will organise for a copy to be forwarded to you.

Ms Amy Webb
Director of Curriculum