Haileybury Rendall School rated top primary school in NT

Haileybury Rendall School (HRS) has solidified its status as a leading Northern Territory school by ranking as the number one primary school in two recent independent measures of academic performance.

The School has maintained its leading position in the 2024 National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) primary school rankings in the Territory for the fourth consecutive year. Australian students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit the NAPLAN annually, which assesses their abilities in literacy, reading, writing and language conventions.

Better Education, a national school comparison website, has also awarded the School a ranking of 100, its highest possible rating. The independent school indexing website has ranked schools within states/territories based on English, Maths and overall academic performance in 2024.

“Haileybury Rendall School is proud to have received a perfect Better Education ranking of 100 in 2024 and for each of the last four years. We are also proud to again be the top NAPLAN ranked primary school in the NT in 2024, an honour we have held since 2021,” said Principal Andrew McGregor.

Further, he stated that “these outstanding academic results affirm the effectiveness of our teaching model and recognise the wonderful Haileybury community who support it. This includes our brilliant teachers, students and their families who have all worked together to achieve such remarkable outcomes.”

Haileybury Rendall School uses an evidence-based approach to ensure it uses best teaching practice to build strong foundations in students’ literacy and numeracy.

This approach has led to the development of the research-based explicit teaching model, an evidence-backed, highly effective method for assisting students to learn, retain and build foundational skills in the primary years.

Haileybury Rendall School’s brilliant teachers use explicit teaching to develop literacy and numeracy through a three stage process where students learn through the teacher initially providing explicit instruction and demonstrations (I do), followed by guided practice and feedback (we do) and reinforcement through the independent application of learning and activities (you do).

The consistently high academic standards achieved by Haileybury Rendall School, which is an open entry school, underscore the effectiveness of the teaching model and its teachers.