NAPLAN 2021

Year 7 and 9 parents have received an individual report over the term break on their child’s results for the NAPLAN tests they completed in May. These tests in key areas of literacy and numeracy provide parents and schools with a snapshot of how students are progressing - individually, as part of our school community and nationally. 

Parent Report  

The large double-sided report shows your child’s results in Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation and Numeracy, measured against national benchmarks. The smaller document explains how your child’s achievements can be interpreted and provides background information to the NAPLAN process and assessments, to further assist parents with understanding the whole program. There is an information table which details a summary of the skills assessed by the NAPLAN testing program.

What is important to note is: “NAPLAN results enable parents to see how students are progressing, not just within their class, but also against national standards that have been agreed upon by all state and territory governments.” 

How are NAPLAN test results used at Carroll College? 

We will be using the results to inform our planning and address areas requiring improvement in the following ways:

• Our teachers will use the results to identify students who would benefit from greater challenges or extra support.
• Our school will use the results to identify strengths and areas to improve in teaching programs and to set goals in literacy and numeracy.
• Our system will use the results to review programs and support our College.

Highlights of NAPLAN results 

Year 9

• Numeracy, Reading and Spelling results are above the State ‘at or above expected growth’ level.
• When compared to the State we had 23.4% more of our students achieving the ‘at or above expected growth’ in Numeracy.
• When compared to the State we had nearly 5% more of our students achieving the ‘at or above expected growth’ in Reading and Spelling.
• When compared to State we had more students achieve Band 10 in Writing.
• We had an average 80% of our students showing growth across the literacy strands. A very impressive 93% in Spelling.
• We had 93% of our students showing growth in Numeracy.

Year 7

• Spelling results are above the State ‘at or above expected growth’ level.
• Grammar and Punctuation, Numeracy and Writing are similar to the State ‘at or above expected growth’ level.
• Spelling and Writing has seen a positive growth on average NAPLAN scores since 2019.
• We had an average 82.5% of our students showing growth across the literacy strands.
• We had 91% of our students showing growth in Numeracy.

Well done to all our Year 7 and 9 students.

Sandra Harris

Assistant Principal (Acting) – Curriculum and Achievement