The Territory Labor Governmentis investing to make the NT education system the most improved in Australia and2019 NAPLAN preliminary results have shown significant long term gains.
The 2019 NAPLAN summary,released nationally today, provides preliminary information about overall stateand territory results. A detailed breakdown, scheduled to be released inDecember, will include individual school results.
The preliminary results showsignificant long-term improvement, particularly in the early years, whencompared to NAPLANs first year of testing in 2008.
Territory NAPLAN achievement highlightsfrom 2008 to 2019 include:
- Improvedperformance for Year 3 students in reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Improvedperformance for Year 5 students in reading, spelling and numeracy
- Improvedperformance for Year 7 students in spelling and a stable performance inreading, grammar and punctuation and numeracy
- Stableperformance for Year 9 students in spelling and numeracy
When compared to 2018, therewas also improvement in every year level in writing.
Long term NAPLAN trends also showgrowth in the number of Years 3 and 5 students meeting National MinimumStandards.
Quotesattributable to Minister for Education, Selena Uibo.
The Northern Territory canhave the most improved education system in the country and this yearspreliminary NAPLAN results are an encouraging sign that improvement ishappening.
The Territory LaborGovernment promised three years ago to reinstate 164 teacher positions slashedby the CLP and to reverse the $135 million they cut from the education budget.
We are delivering on thatpromise by reinvesting in education to support our students to achieve betteroutcomes. This years $1.16 billion education budget is the biggest inTerritory history.
We also know that being readyfor school on day one is critical to improving a childs success at school andinto adulthood, which is why we have also significantly increased our earlychildhood investment.
We have expanded our Familiesas First Teachers (FaFT) program from 27 sites to 44, with a further nine tocommence in the next year, and are increasing our Child and Family Centres fromsix to 11.
Combined with our $1.1billion remote housing program, we are investing to make Territory childreneducation-ready from their first day of school.
