NAPLAN

St. Pat's Year 3 and 5 students participated in NAPLAN assessments this week. Students who are asbent this week will have an opportunity to catch up next week. NAPLAN is an annual assessment for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It tests the types of skills that are essential for every child to progress through school and life. The tests cover skills in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy.

As children progress through their school years, it is very important that checks are made along the way to see how well they are learning the essential skills of reading, writing and mathematics – skills that will set them upon the path to success as adults.

NAPLAN is a point-in-time assessment that allows parents and carers to see how their child is progressing in literacy and numeracy against the national standard and compared with their peers throughout Australia. At the classroom level, NAPLAN provides additional information to support teachers’ professional judgement about student progress.

FRIDAY CODING CLUB

Bega Valley PCYC have invited St. Pat’s Year 5 or 6 students to participate in a weekly coding club session. The Coding Club aims to build the student’s confidence with coding skills throughout the course culminating in the development of a game by each student. The sessions will be delivered online from PCYC instructors, PCYC will provide laptops for the students to use with their CECG login. The sessions will take place on Friday's from 1-3pm commencing Friday 20th May until the end of term. The Coding club will be supervised by a member of the Leadership team. Students were asked to complete an expression of interest and we are pleased to list the following students as successful. Jack, Rylan B, Isaac A, Charlie J, Cindy S, Thomas G, Cooper D, Colin D, Izabella P, Machlan W, Kayden P and Sonny A.