MORNINGTON Park Primary School is celebrating its results, which shows concerted efforts to lift reading rates have achieved remarkable improvements compared to previous years.
Principal Beverley Dadds said the school was “incredibly proud” to be recognised for the results achieved in Naplan, after ‘whole school community’ efforts during the difficult lockdown periods of the past two years.
Ms Dadds said teachers had worked hard to improve literacy, with lots of one-on-one support, and the school moving away from levelled readers.
She said classrooms were happy places of learning, now only filled with quality literature to engage students in reading.
Feedback from the students was that they now love reading, and the improvements were transferring across into higher outcomes, she said.
Mornington Park Primary School, which runs a mainstream and a Steiner program, is one of 125 Victorian schools – 93 government, 18 Catholic and 14 independent – that recorded better-than-expected results compared with their average scores two years ago, factoring in their level of community socio-educational advantage.
Naplan is a national test of numeracy and literacy taken by students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 each year, with the data is collated on the My School website, which allows parents to compare the performance of schools in their area.
First published in the Mornington News – 29 March 2022
