Principal praises literacy results

Brisbane Water Secondary College principal Mr Pat Lewis has praised the college's Year 7 and 8 students for improved results in State-wide literacy testing.

He said Year 8 results were better than State averages.

Mr Lewis said the results for the Years 7 and 8 students during Term 1 indicated impressive progress across all areas tested.

"As testing takes place very early in the year, there is little chance for student learning in Year 7 to influence test scores," Mr Lewis said.

"However, of most interest is the change in student achievement from Year 7 in one year to Year 8 in the next."

Results for this year have indicated increased numbers of Year 8 students achieving in the high band in each of the areas of writing, reading and language compared with their Year 7 results last year.

Mr Lewis added that the proportion of students in the two highest bands was greater than the State-wide figures across all of these areas.

"This improvement has continued a trend since the formation of the college of increasing numbers of students in the higher bands and decreasing numbers in the lowest bands," Mr Lewis said.

"The middle school campus' most impressive result was in reading where almost half of all Year 8 students achieved in the high band compared with only one quarter when they were in Year 7.

"These results are a welcome reward for students and teachers who have put in a great deal of effort to establish sound basic skills for students to build on in their further study.

"This was a major goal in the formation in the formation of the college and it is indeed pleasing to see this being regularly achieved and improved on each year."

Press release, June 8 Pat Lewis, Brisbane Water Secondary College