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A HELPING HAND A FIRE in Flowerdale which has burnt out over 1000 hectares across a 24 kilometre radius had local Maindample CFA members, along with Mansfield and Benalla, helping on the front lines. Full story on page 15.
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2022 Sportsperson of the year
Local sporting talent on display He narrowly missed first place EAGLE-eyed rifle shooter in the National Rifle Championsecond Marty Kelly took out his second ships in Brisbane coming Sportsperson of the Year award by just one super centre. night at at last year’s presentation Marty felt that the Nationals year the Mansfield Golf Club. were his best result of the 30 Marty recently hit a purple where he competed against his patch, notching up wins and of Australia’ top shooters in gaining selection in the National discipline. to F-Class team, on which he In the start of the year closer World represented Australia at the home in Bendigo he was placed Championships in Bloemfontein, second in the Victorian Queens five-day South Africa. and took first place in the “I’m a little bit speechless,” aggregate prize. the said Marty, who’d swapped year has been even this And navy full metal jacket for a dapper better for Marty as he’s reportedly blue suit and an elegant silver ascended to the number ranked badge on the evening. his field. within shooter “It’s an honour to be But as he’s won the prize that recognised for doing a sport twice already, Marty won’t I love. for the 2022 contention in be “And I’ll probably just keep Sportsperson of the Year. I shooting bullets until the day Nevertheless he remains a local die,” he laughed. standout double winner and for Alongside being selected sportsperson. a place in the Australian F-Class State Team, he competed in five Queens Prize events in Victoria, EYE ON THE PRIZE: out South Australia, Western Australia, Crack shot Marty Kelly took time Queensland and ACT. the top spot for the second in all of Marty finished in the top 10 at the Mansfield Sportsperson these events proving his consistency the Year Awards last year. of shooting over the year.
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NAPLAN lands LAST week saw the release of the latest NAPLAN results for 2022, with performance results for local schools available online at the My School website. NAPLAN, which stands for the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy, is a series of tests focusing on basic skills undertaken by students in years three, five, seven and nine. This year the annual test has moved to earlier in the year, with testing now being conducted in term one as opposed to term two. The March time slot will provide schools a clearer
five to year seven.
Results were released last week, with Mansfield principals “Most MPS students go to Mansfield Secondary School g g it can be helpful p but not the whole storyy agreeing so the year seven data is a BY EMMA OLIVER eoliver@ nemedia.com.au
picture of where students are at with their learning at the beginning of the school year, creating an earlier opportunity to tailor support and development. “At St Mary’s we believe it’s important for all the children to be involved in the testing and as a result of this, our participation rate
is very high every year and during 2022 it was 100 per cent,” said principal Trish Etcell. “All the children in year three and year five will commence their NAPLAN testing on Wednesday, March 15. “The testing will enable us to triangulate the children’s results with other standardised tests that we perform throughout the year and plan for future learning at St Mary’s.”
Principal of Mansfield Primary School, Tom MacMunn said that NAPLAN is a single test on a particular day, and as a result doesn’t provide particularly useful data for assessing and supporting individual students. “The data we use to inform our teaching needs to be specific, timely and adaptable,” he explained. “NAPLAN does, however, provide a valuable measure of overall cohorts and trends.
“At Mansfield Primary School we can be proud of our 2022 data for our year three and year five cohorts. “In reading, for example, 87 per cent of grade threes and 89 per cent of the grade fives were in the top four bands. “An interesting and useful measure we can also look at is growth. “The Department of Education has recently adjusted the way NAPLAN data is displayed so that we can see growth from year
reflection of the work that teachers have done in year five, year six and the first part of year seven. “In mathematics, 76 per cent of our students made high or medium growth from year three to year five. “More remarkably, 91 per cent of our students made high or medium growth from year five to year seven. “This is based on 2019 to 2021 data because NAPLAN wasn’t conducted in 2020 due to COVID restrictions.” ■ Continued page 3
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