NAPLAN 2026 Testing Window

The following information is for parents/guardians with a child in Year 3 or Year 5. Students will be sitting NAPLAN 2026 starting in Term 1- Week 6, Wednesday, 11th March, with the NAPLAN window open until Week 8, Monday, 23rd March. In consultation with the school, students whose parents have applied for withdrawal will not be sitting for all or some of the NAPLAN assessments. Confirmation of your child’s withdrawal will be sent to the parent’s email address or made by phone.

NAPLAN assessments are scheduled in a specific order and held in the Library with a dedicated LAN network.

More information for parents about NAPLAN is below. However, all parents should have received a hard copy of “NAPLAN Online: Information for parents and carers” by Week 3. You can download it here if you didn’t receive it or misplaced your document. In addition, please take the time to read the information below, most of which is taken from the NAPLAN website. You can also access these documents via the following links.

NAPLAN 2026 Parent Information Brochure

Below is the mandated NAPLAN assessment sequence. The school’s NAPLAN schedule for individual classes will be posted closer to NAPLAN week.

Download the above test window infographic.

NAPLAN Online test window

The NAPLAN Online test window is nine days. Day 1 is a Wednesday (11th March), and Day 9 is the Monday of the third week of NAPLAN (23rd March)

The Year 3 writing test must be completed within four days, the Year 5 writing test within two days, and schools must schedule writing from the first day of the appropriate two-day test window. For Year 5, the writing window is Days 1 and 2.

The tests need to be taken in a specific order.

For Years 3 and 5, the online test sequence is as follows:

1. Writing (paper for Year 3 only)
2. Reading
3. Conventions of language (spelling, grammar and punctuation)
4. Numeracy.