Reading Tests

During term 1 each year, the school carries out reading tests on all the students.  Individual testing is done at other times during the year, but this early testing helps us to establish our reading programmes for individuals and groups of students.

This year the school carried out the Star Reading Tests, a nationally benchmarked test which measures a range of reading skills including decoding of text, and the understanding of the text.  The Star tests are from Year 3 and above. 

The "average" New Zealand student scores a stanine of 5.  Our school is somewhat above average as we have 22% below average and 61% above average.  This is shown more clearly in the following graph which shows our reading levels when compared with the national bell curve that statistics give.  The graph indicates that we have fewer students below the stanine of 5, and more students getting above the stanine of 5 when compared with the national bell curve.

Progress and Achievement Tests: (PATs)

These are nationally benchmarked tests in English and Maths that we carry out during term 1 each year.  The following graph shows our results when compared with the national standards.

These PATs results indicate that we are producing good results in the core academic areas of literacy and numeracy.  The red normalised standard show the results across the whole country, and our results are in blue.  The national average stanine is 5, and as can be seen, our graphs have all moved towards the right, indicating that we are above average. 

It must be remembered that our results are taken from a relatively small population, and so statistically carry a high level of uncertainty.  However I do believe that they  indicate generally that we are doing quite well.

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