Curriculum News

Understanding Your Child’s NAPLAN Report

This week Aspley State School distributed the Individual Student NAPLAN Reports to the Year 3 and Year 5 NAPLAN students.

Your child’s NAPLAN report will provide helpful insights into their progress in key areas of learning: numeracy, reading, writing, spelling, and grammar and punctuation.

Each section of the report includes a proficiency scale, with your child’s individual result marked by a black dot. You’ll also see:

• A black triangle, which shows the national average for students in the same year level.
• A light shaded rectangle, representing the range of results for the middle 60% of students across Australia.

The proficiency standards on the report include 4 proficiency levels:

• Exceeding: The student’s result exceeds expectations at the time of testing.
• Strong: The student’s result meets challenging but reasonable expectations at the time of testing.
• Developing: The student’s result indicates that they are working towards expectations at the time of testing.
• Needs additional support: The student’s result indicates that they are not achieving the learning outcomes expected at the time of testing. They are likely to need additional support to progress satisfactorily.

Page 4 of the individual student report provides a more detailed summary about what students know and can do within each of the proficiency levels.

While NAPLAN offers a useful snapshot of your child’s learning, it's important to remember that it reflects their performance on one day, not their overall ability or growth across the year.

We encourage you to view the results as just one piece of the puzzle, and to speak with your child’s teacher if you’d like to explore their learning progress in more detail.

A video on how to read and understand your child’s report can be seen here.

Can I Compare My Child’s NAPLAN Results Over Time?

Results from 2023 onwards use a new measurement scale and were based on tests conducted in Term 1, rather than Term 2 as in previous years. Because of these changes, NAPLAN results from 2023 and beyond cannot be directly compared with results from 2008 to 2022.

However, starting in 2025, students in Years 5, 7, and 9 completed their second cycle of NAPLAN under this updated system. This means parents and carers can now compare their child’s individual reports from 2023 and 2025 to see how their proficiency levels have changed.

You can also compare how your child’s results relate to the national average and the middle 60% of students between these years.

It’s important to keep in mind that as students move up through the year levels, the skills needed to reach each proficiency level become more advanced. So, if your child achieves the same proficiency level in, for example, Year 3 and Year 5, this still shows positive growth and progress.

 Classroom News

Prep  B

This term Prep B have been scientists, using our senses to investigate weather features and activities. We have been identifying distinguishable features to sunny, rainy, cloudy and stormy weather, using creative strategies to consolidate our learning, e.g. making a kite, wind socks, artwork of changes in the sky. In English, we have continued exploring traditional tales, sequencing events and creating puppets to retell the story. Keep up the great job, Prep B!

1B

In Science and HASS, 1B has been busy being curious explorers of the world around us! We’ve been making observations and investigating the differences between the day and night skies and learning about the natural, managed, and constructed features that make up different landscapes. We discovered that these features can change the kinds of activities we can do in each place.

2B

In year 2, we love our science unit this term! Students are provided the chance to explore growth cycles of living things. So far, students have looked at the bean plant life cycle and cicada life cycle. In our 2B classroom we have also planted some bean seeds and are observing and recording their growth over 8 weeks. In mathematics, students have been learning about 2D shapes, fractions and using informal units to measure length, mass and capacity. Students in 2B created 2D shape monsters and are having fun splitting shapes into halves, quarters, and eighths.

3B

This term, students in 3B  are becoming persuasive writers and speakers, sharing their opinions with confidence and flair. In maths, we're solving real-world problems using fractions, multiplication and division, and getting hands-on with measuring everyday objects. Science has us chasing shadows and exploring how Earth’s movement creates day, night and changing sunlight. We’re building curiosity, creativity and confidence across all learning areas. It’s a fun-filled term of thinking, talking, and discovering!

5B

Now you see it: Exploring the transfer of light

Students of 5B have been learning all about light this term. Their introduction to the unit involved differentiating between natural and artificial sources of light. Through discussion and observation, they learned that natural light comes from sources like the Sun, while artificial light is produced by man-made objects such as lamps, flashlights and streetlights etc. During our practical investigations, students examined how light interacted with transparent, translucent and opaque materials. They observed the different effects the materials had on the light. Building on this knowledge, students made Scientific predictions about how light travelled by using a torch and shining it through multiple cut out windows. This engaging activity helped the students understand that light travels in a straight line. It is wonderful to see the students being enthusiastically involved and excited about the next stages of our light exploration journey!