Naenae- I think the other girls are completely right. NAPLAN is a day. It's a snapshot in time. I am a teacher and I taught year 5 through NAPLAN last year. Often students will do better or worse than predicted and I don't believe that NAPLAN is enough to base your opinion about your child's progress. She should have had a mid year report last term, how did she go in maths there?

Until Australia has a national curriculum (starting to come in next year) the idea of having national testing is rediculous! How can you compare children in different states who are learning different things? Especially sine some states have had a prep year for ages and some have only just started having prep. This is the real reason that teachers are against NAPLAN and Myschool (which compares school based on NAPLAN) it isn't that we don't want to be accountable, we just thinlk it should wait until the system is fairer. Sorry- I'll get off my soapbox now! Oops......