Learning at Bayanami PS

NSW Public Schools

A child in K–6 typically spends 80 per cent of their time in a 9am to 3pm, five-day school week learning from the syllabus.

The remaining 20 per cent of school time is spent on activities at the school’s discretion. This could include languages, additional school sport, concert rehearsals, religious education and special projects.

English and Mathematics makes up about 50 per cent of the school week – this is equivalent to at least 12 hours each week. Other subjects are spread across the remaining time.

Primary school is split into 4 stages:

Early Stage One (Kindergarten)
Stage One (Year 1 and 2)
Stage Two (Year 3 and 4)
Stage Three (Year 5 and 6)

Each stage has six learning areas: English, Mathematics, Science, History & Geography, Creative Arts, and Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE).

Parents Guide to the NSW Primary Syllabuses

The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) develops syllabuses for these key learning areas. Download the Parent Guide to the NSW Primary Syllabuses to the NSW Primary Syllabuses to see examples of what your child may learn.

Play Based Learning

At Bayanami PS we believe that play has an important role in helping young children to learn. Through play, children discover, create, improvise and imagine. Play allows for the expression of personality and uniqueness, enhances character traits such as curiosity and creativity and enables children to make connections between prior experiences and new learning. When children play with other children they create social groups, test out ideas, challenge each other’s thinking and build new understandings.

Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.

Learning and Support

NSW public schools work with families every day to identify and support children who require additional support at any stage of their schooling. This support can be for a short time or it can be for their whole time at school.

You can ask about extra support at any time during your child’s life at school, including in the middle of the school year. If you would like to discuss additional learning and support for your child, the first step is always to contact your child’s school and ask who the best person is to speak to.

All schools are able to adapt the way they teach students to give support to children with disability or additional learning and support needs. You may hear school staff talking about these changes as ‘adjustments’.

You and your child can work together with the school to:

identify your child's strengths, interests, and areas for development
plan ways to adjust and support your child’s learning
monitor and review your child’s progress.

Support at school is flexible and caters for each child’s individual needs. You and your family can ask questions and make requests while you plan how your child can be best supported at school. Some things you can discuss with the school could include:

the factors affecting your child’s learning
any current support or adjustments the school may be providing
what other supports or adjustments your child could need.

Your child can also be involved in these plans and discussions.

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