Issue 2 Friday 21 February 2025
Deputy Principal Kerry-Ann Reese
Dear Families,
Firstly, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended our Heart of Carbrook Day. It was wonderful to see our school community come together to celebrate, and we truly appreciate your support. A special thank you to our P&C for providing drinks and a sausage sizzle for our students—it was greatly enjoyed!
We would also like to take this opportunity to remind families that toys including scooters, skateboards, ripstiks, Minecraft Cubeez, and Pokémon cards should not be brought to school. Unfortunately, these items have been causing disruptions and issues among students, and we want to ensure that our school environment remains focused on learning and positive interactions. We appreciate your support in reinforcing this expectation with your children.
For your reference please see below:
📌 A proposed event planner for the year, outlining key school events.
📌 Year Level Curriculum newsletters that provide insight into the learning happening across various subject areas this term.
Thank you for your ongoing support in helping us create a positive and productive school environment.
Term 1 Curriculum Learning
NAPLAN
NAPLAN is a national literacy and numeracy assessment that students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit each year. It is the only national assessment all Australian students have the opportunity to undertake.
As students progress through their school years, it’s important to check how well they are learning the essential skills of reading, writing and numeracy.
NAPLAN assesses the literacy and numeracy skills that students are learning through the school curriculum and allows parents/carers to see how their child is progressing against national standards and over time.
NAPLAN is just one aspect of a school’s assessment and reporting process. It doesn’t replace ongoing assessments made by teachers about student performance, but it can provide teachers with additional information about students’ educational progress.
NAPLAN also provides schools, education authorities and governments with information about how education programs are working and whether young Australians are achieving important educational outcomes in literacy and numeracy.
Schools have transitioned from paper-based to computer-based assessments. All Year 3 students will continue to complete the writing assessment on paper.
Online NAPLAN tests provide more precise results and are more engaging for students. One of the main benefits is tailored (or adaptive) testing, where the test presents questions which may be more or less difficult depending on a student’s responses.
Tailored testing allows a wider range of student abilities to be assessed and measures student achievement more precisely. A student’s overall NAPLAN result is based on both the number and complexity of questions they answer correctly. Your child should not be concerned if they find questions challenging; they may be taking a more complex test pathway.
NAPLAN will commence on Wednesday 12 March
and conclude Monday 24 March 2025
iHUB
P&C News
Setting up your Flexischool's account
NAIDOC Art Competition
Clarks Bus Service
Community News
Logan City Council
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How?
💧 Ensure your pool fence is 1.2 metres high
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