NAPLAN 2025
All parents of children in Year 3 and Year 5 should have received paper copies of The National Assessment Program- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results. These reports were sent home from school on Tuesday. This assessment was held in March, 2025. 

From 2023, NAPLAN individual student results are reported against proficiency standards to provide parents and carers with clear information on student achievement. The proficiency standards are set at a challenging but reasonable level expected for students at the time of NAPLAN testing. What NAPLAN assesses has not changed.

How to read a NAPLAN individual student report
The front page of the student report provides general information about the tests and an explanation of how to read the report.

The second and third pages show the student’s result in each assessment area. The results are classified into one of 4 proficiency levels: Exceeding, Strong, Developing and Needs additional support.

The report shows the student’s achievement against the national average for their year (shown as a black triangle) and the range of achievement for the middle 60% of students in their year level (shown as a light shaded rectangle).

The final page of the report provides a brief summary of the skills typically demonstrated by students at each proficiency level. Longer descriptions of the skills typically demonstrated by a student at each proficiency level can be found at proficiency level descriptions. 

Watch the video below on reading the NAPLAN Individual Student Reports.

There is also an information brochure Individual student report – brochure for parents/carers (PDF 294 KB)

The NAPLAN assessment provides a snapshot of your child's achievement at a point in time. The information in this report should be considered together with school based assessments and reports. 

BOOK WEEK/PARADE - Monday 18 August 2025
Get ready to book your spot - our 2025 Book Parade will be turning the page on adventure, and we can’t wait for our families to join the story! The book parade is scheduled for 9am on Monday 18 August.

The theme for Children's Book Week this year is BOOK AN ADVENTURE. 2025 is also a milestone year as the Children’s Book Council of Australia celebrate 80 years of Children’s Book Week! For eight decades, CBCA has been dedicated to inspiring young minds to journey through the countless worlds that books offer.

The annual Book of the Year Awards aim to promote quality literature for young Australians, support and encourage Australian writers and illustrators of children’s books and celebrate contributions to Australian children’s literature. The CBCA 2025 Book Week winners of the shortlisted books will be announced on Friday 15 August.

The feature artist of this year’s Book Week poster is Jess McGeachin, who is an award-winning Australian picture book illustrator. His book week poster features a map filled with imaginary characters, inviting young readers to embark on fantastical journeys, and inspiring them to travel to worlds that books open up. 

You can learn more about this artwork and this year’s theme by visiting the Children’s Book Council of Australia website. There you can view an image of the poster and watch a video of Jess McGeachin. You can also locate the Shortlisted books 2025.

ICAS ASSESSMENTS
Only 4 days left for parents to order and register students before ICAS entries close on 28 July.

These optional academic competitions test students’ higher-order thinking skills and develop critical thinking and problem solving through academic challenges. St Mary's is offering Maths, English, Science and Spelling Bee for Years 2-6 and Writing and Digital Technology for Year 3-6. 

Every student who participates is celebrated and recognised with a printed certificate in each subject area, and an online results report to track development each year. Top performers are eligible for one of the highly coveted ICAS medals.

To learn more about this year’s exciting ICAS competition, visit: (icasassessments.com/products-icas/)

How to participate in ICAS  

If you wish for your child to participate in ICAS this year, please:  

1. Read about ICAS subjects and prices here: (icasassessments.com/products-icas/)  
2. Read the Privacy Collection Statement below.
3. Read the terms and conditions here: (icasassessments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-ICAS-Assessments-Schools-TsCs_S2023.V6-1.pdf) 
4. Go to the Parent Portal to sign up to chosen subject areas here: (shop.icasassessments.com/pages/pps)  
5. Enter our school’s access code – SJE888 
6. Enter your child’s details, select the subject areas your child would like to participate in, then proceed to payment.

ICAS Results and Certificates
All assessments will be conducted online, at school. We will notify you of the date(s) that we will run ICAS assessments, and when your child’s ICAS results are ready. Your child’s ICAS certificates will be delivered to school. Once we have received them, we will present them to your child to bring home. The back of the certificate will show your child’s ICAS results and the login details, “TAP ID and Pin”. - Use these to enter the Results Portal orti.icasassessments.com/ortiStudent

Privacy collection statement  
The following information is a privacy notification about how your child’s data is kept private and secure.

ICAS Assessment is owned by Janison Solutions Pty Ltd (We, Us, Our).

To deliver assessment products, Janison will require your child’s School to obtain your consent to provide Janison with certain personal information of students. Janison will collect, store, use, disclose and otherwise deal with such personal information in accordance with its privacy policy (below). We are aware of our responsibility to protect personal information related to children and students from being disclosed when we deliver an ICAS Assessments product. Unless you, as the child’s legal guardian consents, we will not:

• collect any personal information or data of children other than the information we need for the successful completion of an assessment, test, or exam. 

• transfer any personal information we obtain from a child in the delivery of assessments and tests to any jurisdiction outside of Australia. 

• share any personal information relating to children with any third parties (except for those third parties necessary for us to carry out our Services or provide our Products e.g., medal engraving). 
• use any personal information or data relating to children for marketing purposes. 

You can view our full privacy policy at https://www.janison.com/privacy-policy/. 

We may retain personal information and data relevant to a child for their future purposes or for research purposes by Janison for the duration of the school life cycle of the child. However, if you or your child at any time wish to have their personal information or data removed from our systems, they or you may opt out by simply contacting our Privacy Officer at privacy@janison.com or by contacting icasassessments@janison.com.

ICAS Assessments 2025

God bless and take care

Mrs Sue Heffernan
Assistant Principal