Woy Woy achieves solid Naplan results

Woy Woy Public School Year 3 students have received the results from their Naplan tests which detail their progress in reading, spelling, writing, grammar and punctuation and numeracy.

Principal Ms Ona Buckley said the Year 3 students achieved "an excellent result" in reading with a mean score of 428.6 which was 2.3 above the state average.

"Our results were also above the region, our same school group and the schools in our learning community," said Ms Buckley.

"The school is very pleased with this result.

"A solid reading program throughout the Kindergarten to Year 2 section has contributed, as well as the introduction of the Reading Recovery program for Year 1, Jolly Phonics, the Language Learning and Literacy and Best Start testing for Kindergarten.

"Our job now will be to challenge and support this group of students through to the Year 5 Naplan so they can show solid growth.

"The school target for reading this year was to increase the percentage of Year 3 students achieving at proficient bands (bands five and six) from 27 per cent to 30 per cent; we actually increased it to 49 per cent," said Ms Buckley.

In spelling, Year 3 students achieved a mean score of 400.1 which was 28 below the state average but showed growth from 396 since last year.

"This is positive for the school and shows that the consistent spelling program we are implementing throughout the school (K-6) is achieving its purpose," said Ms Buckley.

Year 3 students achieved a 411 mean score in writing which was 14 score points below the state and one point below the region.

"The school will look at the Naplan writing data carefully to assess how we can better support our students to raise results," said Ms Buckley.

"In the grammar and punctuation section, our Year 3 students achieved a mean score of 419.4 points which, compared against all DEC students in NSW, was seven score points below average but from the 2011 results has increased from 390.

"A solid growth for the school.

"In our school plan for the next three years, we have targeted grammar and punctuation as a priority and the school is developing a consistent program of teaching and learning K-6 to target improving our results in this area of literacy," she said.

Year 3 students achieved 390 score points in numeracy which was 15 points below the state and 10 points below all NSW DEC students.

"We have shown a slight decrease on numeracy results for Year 3 for 2012 but have come above our same school group and have achieved just below the region score of 397," said Ms Buckley.

"The school has now put into place a comprehensive maths program (K-6) and we should see our results growing as the program becomes embedded in school practice.

"The school target for Numeracy for Year 3 students was to increase the students achieving at proficient bands (Bands 5 and 6) from 25 per cent to 28 per cent.

"We achieved 36 per cent which is again a good result," she said.

Newsletter, 16 Oct 2012

Ona Buckley, Woy Woy Public School