Overall improved NAPLAN Results for Western Australia
- but a decline in writing
In the past week or so there has been a vast number of reports about our nations NAPLAN preliminary results. The good news is that WA students have broken several records in NAPLAN tests, 14 out of 20 assessments to be more accurate. This is fantastic news for WA who have always been known for falling behind our Eastern counterparts. However, there were some discerning results amongst year 9 students who will be required to sit further numeracy and/or literacy tests in order to qualify them for their final education certificate. Read more here
The most alarming part of this report is that 60 per cent of Year 9 students fell below the required levels in the writing exam. Furthermore, a general trend of decreased writing results amongst all year groups was prevalent in WA which would suggest that writing needs to be greatly improved in order to turn this trend around in a positive direction. Results here
We could wait for government bodies to make amendments to funding education and schools to change these results. However, we could be waiting for a long time and do we have that time? If we let our students slip back further, how much more work will we require to bring them back up to standards? It seems that parents may need to take matters into their own hands to improve their children's writing results. At Intuition Educational Support we support parents and their children to change this trend and improve on these results.
In our national curriculum, one of the core aims of primary school English is to introduce and help children understand imaginative, informative and persuasive texts before they reach secondary school. By secondary school, teachers have an expectation that all students will have a basic grasp of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts. The next step is to broaden this understanding. With this in mind, Intuition Educational Support have made it our priority are to support students in improving their writing. We are very fortunate to have onboard a published writer, Michael Buckingham Gray, who has developed several writing programmes to improving writing skills. These writing workshops for both Primary and Secondary students will be run at our innovative learning centre in Osborne Park. For more information click here or alternatively speak to us directly to discuss your child's requirements.
