Year 12 Academic Excellence Award Winners

This week we acknowledged our Year 12 students at their Graduation Awards Assembly. After completing a year of assessments and exams, students who ranked first in a Year 12 course received an Academic Excellence Award. Congratulations to the following students:

Chisholm House

MacKillop House

Xavier House

I wish our Year 12 students all the best as they prepare for their upcoming HSC exams beginning in Week 1.

ICAS Assessments

ICAS is an online academic competition that is designed to assess students’ higher order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Writing, Spelling Bee and Digital Technologies. This year we had several students from Year 7 and 8 participate in the competition.

I would like to congratulate the achievement of our ICAS students. Certificates will be handed out at the next College assembly.

Digital Technologies

Lara Dalzell, Year 7, Participation Award

Mathematics

Lara Dalzell, Year 7, Participation Award

Michaela Fitzpatrick, Year 7, Credit

Cooper Smith, Year 7, Participation Award

Chelsea Clugston, Year 8, Participation Award

Millicent Harpley, Year 8, Participation Award

English

Lara Dalzell, Year 7, Participation Award

Michaela Fitzpatrick, Year 7, High Distinction

Cooper Smith, Year 7, Merit

Chelsea Clugston, Year 8, Merit

Science

Bianca Brooke, Year 7, Participation Award

Michaela Fitzpatrick, Year 7, Credit  

Chelsea Clugston, Year 8, Participation Award

Spelling Bee

Michaela Fitzpatrick, Year 7, Credit

Cooper Smith, Year 7, Participation Award

NAPLAN

Years 7 and 9 parents have received an individual NAPLAN report on their child’s results for the 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?

The results can be a useful tool for schools as we reflect on areas that we might focus our learning on. The NAPLAN results showed a number of positive results for many students in the 3 main disciplines of reading, writing and numeracy. 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.

In 2020 the NAPLAN tests did not run, and student growth cannot be calculated for 2022. However, our students have achieved very pleasing results. In Year 9, students performed above similar schools in Grammar & Punctuation, Writing and Numeracy. This year, a larger percentage of students have achieved results in the top 2 and middle 2 bands in Grammar & Punctuation, Spelling and Writing when compared to previous years.

The testing for Year 7 students occurs after they have only been in the college for 12 weeks, a time of transition into secondary school. In Year 7, students performed above similar schools in Grammar & Punctuation, Reading, Spelling, and Writing. This year, a larger percentage of students have achieved results in the top 2 and middle 2 bands in all areas: Grammar & Punctuation, Numeracy, Reading, Spelling, and Writing when compared to previous years.

Well done to all our Year 7 and 9 students.

Term 4 reminders, weeks 1 and 2…

• School will resume on Tuesday 11 October, timetable Day 2, with Monday 10 October being a pupil-free day for a staff professional learning day.
• HSC exams begin on Tuesday 12 October.
• Immunisation catch up day will be held on Tuesday 18 October.
• The Year 10 Spring Soiree will take place on Wednesday 19 October.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you an enjoyable and relaxing holiday.

Sandra Harris
Assistant Principal Learning and Improvement