This is a statewide assessment that helps teachers identify the literacy and numeracy skills your child brings with them at the beginning of Kindergarten.
The assessment is not a test, and there is no need to prepare, but provides teachers with useful information to help support your child’s learning at school.
The assessment allows teachers to spend one-on-one time with each child, learning about their literacy and numeracy abilities.
This helps teachers to plan lessons to best support the learning needs of every child.
The assessment recognises that children come to school with a range of experiences, skills and abilities.
Some are familiar with books, can recognise letters of the alphabet or even write their name or count to 10, while others have not yet learned these skills.
All Kindergarten students usually complete the literacy and numeracy assessment in the first full five weeks of school.
Outcomes are mapped to the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions.
The literacy tasks are designed to identify whether students can write their name, recognise sounds, letters and familiar words, and recall details about a short book that has been read to them.
The numeracy tasks are related to early number concepts and are designed to identify how well a student can count, which numbers they can recognise, whether they can count objects, add or subtract small numbers; and recognise repeating patterns.
For more information about the assessment, speak with your chosen school.
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