Literacy & Numeracy at MGC
Literacy and numeracy are an essential part of everyday life, work and education.
Literacy is being able to read, write and understand language.
Numeracy is the ability to understand and use mathematics and statistics.
Across the country, the literacy and numeracy requirements and assessments for NCEA are changing this year. This work is led by the Ministry of Education and the changes are designed to ensure students have functional literacy and numeracy skills that will ready them to transition into tertiary education or the workplace.
At MGC, we are focused on teaching foundational skills in reading, writing and mathematics across all learning areas.
From this year, all students will need both the Literacy (LIT) and Numeracy (NUM) co-requisites to attain their NCEA certificates - at any level.
All Year 11 students at MGC will be entered into the NZQA Literacy and Numeracy Common Assessment Activities (CAAs) in 2024. Students will have multiple opportunities to meet the LIT/NUM standards and achieve the co-requisites through their senior years at school.
There are three CAAs:
For LIT Reading (5 credits)
Writing (5 credits)
For NUM Maths and Statistics (10 credits)
The CAAs are:
external assessments, and marked by NZQA
unit standards - students can only Achieve / Not Achieve
to take place in two windows in 2024: May 20-31 and Sep 9-20 (for those students that didn’t Achieve in May)
More information for whānau about Literacy and Numeracy and NCEA is here in this Ministry of Education publication.
At our Year 11 Academic Information Evening on Tuesday 26th March, we will share more information about Literacy / Numeracy and CAAs and answer questions that you may have about these. We look forward to seeing you then.
If you are looking to support your child’s reading, writing and mathematics learning at home, the following educational websites are available, with free access:
The Best Sites (free)
British Council : Grammar and Vocabulary and Reading
An excellent site which delivers a range of online resources. Covers all the aspects of reading and writing. Includes videos and interactive quizzes.
This site operates like a textbook online. Each page covers one topic at a time and contains exercises and tests to check students’ comprehension.
If the students go to Reading and Language Arts: Grammar; they will find a lot of helpful units on the use of punctuation, capital letters, commas and many more which include excellent explanatory videos and lessons.
This site is set up to teach and review grammar and punctuation. The content is engaging and it caters to learners of all levels.
An easy to follow site which contains interactive quizzes and mini grammar lessons.