 Every school has a narrative and every school needs the opportunity to be able to tell its story with the parent body. Our school is a fully comprehensive school and it's been useful to me as a school principal to be able to use NAPLAN data in I think a very authentic way to say when we are compared to like students that our school is on this growth journey and that's been extremely helpful to me to share a narrative with my parent community that's a narrative of school growth and to compete against the narrative of league tables. I think there's more than a little bit of evil in league tables and NAPLAN data and particularly the my school website in some of its degrees helped me to tell to construct a narrative that's very real and I can hand on heart speak to as one of learning growth within my school and I think that's been a real strength of the NAPLAN data. We're part of a system and so we're part of the Catholic system and we often use the information between schools at executive levels to talk about where the system's going. So for example we might identify a priority for the system which at the moment is numeracy and so working together that allows us to do some professional learning together and to have a focus for the system. It's particularly useful as well for parents because it's a really detailed form of reporting for them to be able to use an access and see how their child is going and then over the years be able to again map their own child's progress and see their progression. As a teacher and head of learning in a small rural school I have to work really closely with my community to make sure they're on board. Our school council are now data junkies you know and we have a very diverse school council met up with shearers, professionals and a broad slice of life but it allows our whole community to see how our little school is travelling on the national context plus it provides a very precise measure and defined language to discuss our school's performance. We can compare ourselves to our national means and our state means. So it's empowering for our community. It gives us a sense of where we are. We could be an isolated little school you know that is sailing by its own lights but we don't want that. We want to know how we measure up. Our community wants to know that we have a valuable and viable teaching program and that plan has consistently provided us with the feedback that we are doing so. It also provides us with our next level of challenge.