Wednesday, 3 December 2025

 Ryan BATCHELOR (Southern Metropolitan) (09:56): I rise to pay tribute to the schools today who are publishing the NAPLAN results from 2025. We saw the NAPLAN results in Victoria – outstanding results, they were. I want to pay tribute to all of the hardworking teachers, the families and the students, who have worked so hard to achieve those results. I was recently talking with the principal at Beaumaris Primary, David Tapp, about the changes that they have made to their explicit teaching model in line with the support that is being provided by the Victorian government and the policy directions out of the Department of Education and the minister towards explicit teaching. What that is demonstrating is significant improvements both at that school and across the board in NAPLAN results, literacy, numeracy, reading and writing. Everyone who has been involved here should be hugely congratulated.