{"id":308222,"date":"2021-10-28T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=308222"},"modified":"2021-10-28T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:40:17","slug":"year-9-aces-naplan-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2021\/10\/28\/year-9-aces-naplan-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 9 Aces NAPLAN Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_308224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308224\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211028smcc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-308224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211028smcc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211028smcc.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211028smcc-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211028smcc-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211028smcc-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211028smcc-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211028smcc-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-308224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Carmel O&#8217;Brien with two of her Year 9 top-performers Karl Schick and Matilda Ackinclose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>October 28, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest NAPLAN results have left Saint Mary&#8217;s Catholic College principal Carmel O&#8217;Brien feeling very proud of all her students, but particularly the Year 9 cohort.<\/p>\n<p>The 38 students in the Year 9 class have done particularly well, with a stunning result in reading and excellent results in numeracy and writing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am immensely proud of the students&#8217; work ethic and commitment to learning,&#8221; Mrs O&#8217;Brien said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I even had other principals ringing me and congratulating the school on the outstanding results for our Year 9 group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>She said Year 9 were above the best performing States in all three strands of the NAPLAN testing, and significantly above the Australian mean scale score.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really a standout performance,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s not an accident. It&#8217;s because of purposeful engaged learning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the learning opportunities that staff provide in the classroom that end up in such outstanding results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NAPLAN tests assess students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.<\/p>\n<p>As there was no testing done in 2020 due to the pandemic, the 2021 results compare the same students&#8217; performances in 2019 and demonstrate the boost in performance.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Graphs of St Mary&#8217;s Year 9 performance (the blue line):<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_308230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308230\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028reading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308230\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028reading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028reading.jpg 760w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028reading-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-308230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading (Graph: SMCC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_308229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308229\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028numeracy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308229\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028numeracy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028numeracy.jpg 760w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028numeracy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-308229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Numeracy (Graph: SMCC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_308231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308231\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028writing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308231\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028writing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028writing.jpg 760w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/202101028writing-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-308231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writing (Graph: SMCC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest NAPLAN results have left Saint Mary&#8217;s Catholic College principal Carmel O&#8217;Brien feeling very proud of all her students, but particularly the Year 9 cohort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":308224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,395],"tags":[35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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