Helping Your Child At Home.
As a parent, you are your child's first and most important teacher. When parents and families are involved with their child's school, the children do better and have better feelings about going to school. There are many ways that parents can support their child's learning at home and throughout the school year. Here are some ideas to get you started! Helping your child at home
Reading and Vocabulary
Children learn from being read to, by reading with others and by reading to themselves. Have fun reading together every day. Look for opportunities such as when you are walking to school, the book shop, the library and the supermarket. Talk about stories, the language used, words in the story, as well as, the sounds of letters in words. Read books in your home language. Reading and Vocabulary
Drawing and Writing.
Encourage your child to draw and write about interesting things. Ask your child to talk about their drawings and writing. Be interested in their stories and how they have chosen to draw or write them. Drawing and Writing
Helping your child develop their numeracy skills
Numeracy involves being able to understand how numbers work in everyday situations. We see and use numbers daily. When reading, there are numbers on the page, our house has a number and when we buy something we add and subtract numbers. Help your child to develop a positive attitude towards numeracy. It’s important to build numeracy skills in your home language. Numeracy
More Resources from the Department of Education
The NSW Student learning library is a suite of learning resources which are accessible for teachers, parents and carers, and students to be used in class or at home.
The resources are aligned with new syllabuses and have been quality assured by educational professionals within the department. The new resources will supplement and complement other resources being provided by the department, including units developed by department curriculum experts to support the roll-out of new syllabuses.
The library currently contains K-2 English and Mathematics learning resources. The remaining K-10 learning resources are to be released over the next 3-5 years aligned to the new NSW syllabus rollout.
