NAPLAN, Blue Mountains: See how your primary performed
Public schools made an impressive showing in 2019 NAPLAN results across the Blue Mountains. SEE HOW YOUR SCHOOL PERFORMED IN OUR EXCLUSIVE LIST
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Public schools made an impressive showing as the Blue Mountains News can reveal primary school NAPLAN results in the region.
Following Warrimoo’s Wycliffe Christian School (498.6), nine of the next 11 schools on the list are public.
This includes Lapstone Public School, who recorded an average of 495.6 across Years 3 and 5.
Glenbrook Public School (493.4), Blaxland Public School (491.4), and Leura Public School (485.4) rounded out the top five.
Wycliffe Christian School had the best Year 3 average (486.6) and Blaxland East Public School topped the Year 5 average (536.4)
Lapstone Public School Principal Sharon Gordon said her school’s results came from “investing in teach to make the biggest impact on student learning outcomes”.
“What the school has done is invested in teacher professional learning,” she said.
“We’ve had instructional learners working alongside our teachers at the school, and we’ve built the capacity of the teachers over the past three years with a strong focus on evidence-based practices and data-driven practices.”
Ms Gordon also pointed to strong student wellbeing programs helping kids excel at primary school.
“We have visible learning where the students know what good looks like,” she said.
“It’s unpacked for them, and they strive to reach their learning goals.
“We also have strong community connections that work very closely with us.”
She said that while good NAPLAN results were “encouraging”, she tried not to put too much importance on them.
“We see it for what it is, just a snapshot in time of where those students are sitting for their literacy and numeracy,” she said.
“It’s a snapshot of how a child is travelling on that particularly day.
“The other things to focus on is student growth – what value did the school have for that particular child from year three to five?
“It’s nice to see that our kids did well, but we’re already running our in-school data collection that tells us how they’re travelling.”
The NAPLAN test remains controversial with the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), the federal body responsible for developing national curriculum and assessment, this year revamping the MySchool website where school’s NAPLAN results are publicly displayed.
Focus groups across the country found MySchool was difficult to navigate and was filled with technical language and jargon.
ACARA also had to further explain on the website the benefits of NAPLAN and MySchool to parents.
EXCLUSIVE LIST - SEE HOW YOUR SCHOOL RATES:
1. Wycliffe Christian School – 498.6
2. Lapstone Public School – 495.6
3. Glenbrook Public School – 493.4
4. Blaxland Public School – 491.4
5. Leura Public School – 485.4
6. Blaxland East Public School – 480.7
7. Warrimoo Public School – 478.9
8. Blue Mountains Grammar School – 476.2
9. Winmalee Public School – 474.2
10. St Thomas Aquinas Primary School – 473.9
11. Ellison Public School – 473.7
12. Springwood Public School – 473.6
13. Blackheath Public School – 473.5
14. St Canice’s Primary School – 471.9
15. Wentworth Falls Public School – 471.8
16. Mount Riverview Public School – 469.7
17. Faulconbridge Public School – 465.4
18. St Finbar’s Primary School – 458.9
19. Our Lady of The Nativity Primary School – 454.0
20. Lawson Public School – 445.5
21. Blue Mountains Steiner School – 445.2
22. Katoomba Public School – 440.5
23. Hazelbrook Public School – 438.9
24. Katoomba North Public School – 427.7
25. Mountains Christian College – 418.0
26. Moounta Victoria Public School – 406.4