Holy Cross Primary ranks in the NAPLAN Top 10 for the Blacktown area.
Primary schools in the Blacktown Local Government Area are outperforming students at similar schools across the country in key NAPLAN subjects, new data shows. A recent article in the Blacktown Advocate named St John Vianney’s Primary, Holy Cross Primary and Mary Immaculate Primary School as ranking in the Top 10 for the Blacktown area.
The 2018 NAPLAN results, uploaded to the Australia Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority’s My School website this week, showed which primary schools across the Blacktown area achieved results “above” or “substantially above” other schools with similar students.
NAPLAN tests assess primary students in years 3 and 5 and high school students in years 7 and 9 in literacy and numeracy.
The results of students with a similar Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA), were compared by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to determine how schools fared against others with similar challenges and opportunities.
Year 3 students St John Vianney’s Primary School achieved results “significantly above” similar schools in at least one subject.
Top 10 High-Achieving Primary Schools in Blacktown
- Quakers Hill Public School
- Caddie Creek Public School
- Rouse Hill Anglican College
- John Palmer Public School
- Australian Islamic College of Sydney
- St John Vianney’s Primary School
- Kings Langley Public School
- Norwest Christian College
- Holy Cross Primary School
- Mary Immaculate Primary School
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Celebrating Multicultural Diversity! Today’s celebration holds a special significance as we reflect on the story of Pentecost. Just as the Holy Spirit enabled people of different languages and lands to understand one another, we recognise that our differences are not barriers—they are gifts. "For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink." — 1 Corinthians 12:13
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🔥 Celebrating Pentecost: Many Tongues, One Heart 🔥 Today, our school community came together to celebrate Pentecost, marking the beautiful moment the Holy Spirit descended like fire, bringing a message that everyone could understand in their own language. At Holy Cross, our classrooms are filled with a vibrant tapestry of backgrounds, cultures, and stories. We speak different languages and come from different walks of life, but today was a powerful reminder that diversity is our strength and faith is our glue. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this celebration of the Eucharist special: The Holy Notes Band and Choir, supported by Mr Lendai, all the readers (especially those students who spoke in their first language), altar servers, IT, and offertory.
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Celebrating Multicultural Diversity! Today’s celebration holds a special significance as we reflect on the story of Pentecost. Just as the Holy Spirit enabled people of different languages and lands to understand one another, we recognise that our differences are not barriers—they are gifts. "For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink." — 1 Corinthians 12:13
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🔥 Celebrating Pentecost: Many Tongues, One Heart 🔥 Today, our school community came together to celebrate Pentecost, marking the beautiful moment the Holy Spirit descended like fire, bringing a message that everyone could understand in their own language. At Holy Cross, our classrooms are filled with a vibrant tapestry of backgrounds, cultures, and stories. We speak different languages and come from different walks of life, but today was a powerful reminder that diversity is our strength and faith is our glue. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this celebration of the Eucharist special: The Holy Notes Band and Choir, supported by Mr Lendai, all the readers (especially those students who spoke in their first language), altar servers, IT, and offertory.
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The weather might be miserable outside today but there’s still some great learning happening all around the school 💚💜
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Every Tuesday morning a group of dedicated Year 4 students spend their morning play time helping Ms McColl and Miss Elliott set up the instruments ready for our Captivate Strings program 🎻 Thank you to our Captivate Monitors 👍
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Special congratulations to Milana from Year 6 who competed at the NSW School Sport Australian Football Championships as part of the MacKillop AFL team last week 🏉 Milana’s team were crowned champions of the tournament having gone through the whole competition undefeated!!! Milana even kicked the final goal in the Grand Final! What an awesome achievement! 👏👍
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Thank you to our Year 3 students for sharing their learning with us this afternoon 💚💜
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Today our Kindergarten to Year 3 students were involved in cricket blast clinics with Cricket NSW 🏏 All of the students had a great time learning some new skills 👍
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Today is World Educational Support Staff Day where we get the chance to say a massive thank you to the wonderful support staff who really do keep our school running! Heidi, Tina and Sharon in the school office really are the face of the school for so many families and students and we couldn’t function without them and all that they do 😁 Thay our school business manager works tirelessly behind the scenes to keep our school running at its best 💚 Mike our groundskeeper does a fantastic job at keeping our school looking wonderful and takes so much pride in the work he does at Holy Cross 💜 And Ajay, our IT trainee keeps the digital side of our school going. With hundreds of Chromebooks, laptops and iPads in use each week, this is obviously a big job and he does it so well. Thank you!
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Congratulations to all our students who ran at the Parramatta Diocesan Cross Country. 👏 Lots of excitement and energy, and lots of nerves with many running for the first time. We had some amazing results, several students placing in the top 20 of their event, and a special mention to Louis H (Year 6) and Ava L (Year 5) who place 6th in their races. They will now compete at the NSWCCCCPS Cross Country in June. 🏃🏃♂️
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