At Holy Trinity,  we understand that the NAPLAN results are but one sample of how a school’s students are performing and that good schooling is about a lot more than scores on a single test, held on a single day.  The NAPLAN assessments are designed to provide schools with ongoing feedback about the effectiveness of their teaching practices and the impact of the curriculum and, as such do provide some good longitudinal data on school wide development.  The individual student reports also give parents and teachers a ‘snapshot’ of how each child is performing compared to those around the country in each of the five areas tested.  It is important, however, for parents to remember though that the test examines a fairly narrow band of concepts and our school reports combined with parent teacher interviews provide a much richer picture of each students’ overall development.