Best Start

What is Best Start?

The Best Start Kindergarten Assessment is a state-wide assessment that helps teachers identify the English literacy and numeracy skills of each student at the beginning of Kindergarten. The assessment is conducted for all NSW public school Kindergarten students in the first full 5 weeks of school.

For more information, view the Best Start Kindergarten Assessment - Parent Brochure

Literacy Assessment

The literacy tasks are designed to identify whether students can write their name, recognise sounds, letters and familiar words, and recall details about a short book that has been read to them.

Numeracy Assessment

The numeracy tasks are related to early number concepts and are designed to identify how well a student can count, which numbers they can recognise, whether they can count objects, add or subtract small numbers; and recognise repeating patterns.