By Mrs Anna Hardy, Assistant Principal Curriculum 

NAPLAN

Congratulations to all our Year 7 and 9 students who sat NAPLAN. Thanks to Ms Lawler for her dedicated organisation to ensure that the testing period ran smoothly for all staff and students.

NAPLAN, the National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy, evaluates skills in reading, writing, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and numeracy. These assessments offer insight into students' performance and complement our ongoing classroom assessment practices.

Additionally, they provide valuable data for informing teaching strategies tailored to the needs of our student body.

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) develops the tests and associated marking standards, while the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) coordinates administration, marking, and reporting of NAPLAN tests within Queensland.

Results will be made available to parents later in the year. We will keep you informed once we receive these parent reports for distribution.

Extension Process for Assessment

As we progress through the term, it's essential to understand the extension process for assessments, particularly for Year 7-10 students. To assist you, we've provided a flowchart outlining the steps outlined in our assessment policy.

For Year 7-10 students, extensions require a note from home to support their application, whereas Year 11-12 students necessitate a medical certificate or explanation of extenuating circumstances, including misadventure. It's crucial to note that this process encompasses examination periods as well.

Unforeseen circumstances such as illness, injury, incidents on the assessment day, family circumstances, or bereavement may warrant an extension. However, it's important to remember that technology failure is not considered an unforeseen circumstance, as students are expected to maintain backups of their work on OneDrive.

The QCAA has specific criteria for illness and misadventure extensions, including demonstrating that the situation was beyond the student's control and could not have been anticipated or chosen. If an illness or misadventure affects internal assessment, supporting documentation will be required, including diagnosis, onset date, symptoms, and the probable impact on assessment participation.

For non-medical claims, written evidence from relevant independent professionals or third parties may be necessary.

Should you require further clarification on the extensions process, please feel free to reach out to Natalie Bennett, curriculum leaders or me.

Term 1 Interim Reports 

Given that parents/guardians have access to Canvas to see all teacher feedback on all drafts, assessment, and the final result, this negates the need for Term 1 Interim reports. There will be no Term 1 Interim Reports issued. This does not replace the Teacher/Student/Parent conferences that are scheduled for Term 2. We invite parents/guardians along to these with their child to discuss their child’s academic journey. Bookings will be made available via Sentral in Week 10 of this term.