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Literacy and numeracy are, and always will be, the foundations of learning. While literacy and numeracy skills are explicit in English and mathematics, all learning areas require discipline-specific literacy and numeracy knowledge and skills. At Picton High School, literacy is strengthened, made specific and extended in other learning areas, and the use of mathematical skills across the curriculum enriches the study of each curriculum area and contributes to the development of a broader and deeper understanding of numeracy. Literacy and numeracy form the foundations students need for deep learning across the curriculum and the development of skills essential to everyday life.
Assessments & Learning
Assessments & Learning
The literacy and numeracy team use a number of online programs and assessment tools to assist in students learning.
Renaissance Star Reading
Renaissance Star Reading
One K–12 comprehensive assessment provides all the insights needed to guide literacy growth for emergent readers, struggling readers, and high achievers, whether you are testing in-person, remotely, or a combination of both.
Essential Assessment
Essential Assessment
Our online assessment platform allows teachers to pre-assess students within each strand or sub-strand of the Australian Curriculum, Victorian Curriculum or NSW Syllabus. Student results are automatically compiled, advising the teacher of each student’s current achievement level and analysis of the achievement standards that has been understood and misunderstood for each student, group and class.
Check-in assessments
Check-in assessments
Check-in assessments are online assessments for students in Years 3 to 9. They are mapped to the NSW Syllabuses and National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions. There are two assessments:
reading
numeracy
Each assessment is between 40 to 50 multiple choice questions. The assessment supplements existing school practices to identify how students are performing in literacy and numeracy and to help teachers tailor their teaching more specifically to student needs.
MyOn
MyOn
What is myON? myON is a digital reading platform that provides students with 24/7 access to thousands of fiction and nonfiction digital books—in English, Spanish, and additional languages. myON News provides access to daily news articles written just for children and is within the myON platform.
How does myON work? Once logged in, students can browse thousands of digital books and different genres. As students read on their favourite digital device they can mark-up pages, highlight words, listen to audio versions, and interact with the enhanced digital books.
Students are able to login, at any time, to myON for online reading. Students are also free to access a number of modules within the Essential Assessment portal for ongoing practice in numeracy, algebra, spelling, and literacy. These are accessed by logging in to Essential Assessment:
My Spelling
Sunset maths
Jet Pack Algebra
My Literacy
Resources
Resources
Here a number of resources to help students and parents:
YOUR NAPLAN QUESTIONS ANSWERED
YOUR NAPLAN QUESTIONS ANSWERED
The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a point in time assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. The tests assess the foundational skills in reading, writing, spelling and numeracy that are essential for every child to progress through school and life.
This year NAPLAN takes place between 14 and 16 May for paper tests and between 14 and 24 May for schools participating in NAPLAN Online.
NAPLAN data is used to help monitor student progress over time against a national measure and to identify areas of strength and improvement. It is used in combination with other school assessments to guide and support student learning.
Watch students ask an expert the tough questions about NAPLAN.
Video – Kids ask the hard questions
Video – Expert advice for High School Students
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