Videos

General tips for children starting school

Numeracy tips for children starting school

Audio files:

Ten Literacy and Numeracy Tips (for parents) These audio files are intended for busy parents who would like some ideas about developing their children’s literacy and numeracy skills.

The tips are grouped to match the Years at school that your child is in: Kindergarten-Year 2; Years 3-4; and the Middle Years 5-8.

They are available translated into six languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese to listen to online, to download to an MP3 or to print out.

Parent support flyers:

No brochure is available in hard copy form.

Five ways to build your child's
literacy skills K-4 (pdf 1409kb)

Five ways to build your child’s
numeracy skills K-4 (pdf 709kb)

Literacy flyers

Arabic (pdf 219kb) | Chinese (pdf 289kb) | Korean (pdf 309kb) | Spanish (pdf 167kb) | Turkish (pdf 223kb) | Vietnamese (pdf 196kb) |

Numeracy flyers

Arabic (pdf 268kb) | Chinese (pdf 309kb) | Korean (pdf 343kb) | Spanish (pdf 203kb) | Turkish (pdf 284kb) | Vietnamese (pdf 219kb) |

Ideas for families (pdf 93kb)

Helping your child with literacy

• Ideas to use at home (download coloured booklet (pdf 543kb))

Arabic (pdf 929kb) | Chinese (pdf 1125kb) | English (pdf 915kb) | Korean (pdf 1075kb) | Spanish (pdf 916kb) | Turkish (pdf 928kb) | Vietnamese (pdf 926kb) |

Helping your child with numeracy

• Ideas to use at home (download coloured booklet (pdf 670kb))

Arabic (pdf 929kb) | Chinese (pdf 1125kb) | English (pdf 150kb) | Korean (pdf 290kb) | Spanish (pdf 151kb) | Turkish (pdf 165kb) | Vietnamese (pdf 70kb) |

Helping your child with literacy and numeracy: Pre-school to Year 6

• Ideas to use at home (download coloured booklet (pdf 4287kb))

Arabic (pdf 831kb) | Chinese (pdf 737kb) | Korean (pdf 728kb) | Spanish (pdf 417kb) | Turkish (pdf 406kb) | Vietnamese (pdf 373kb) |

Helping your child in year 7 with literacy and numeracy

• Ideas to use at home (download coloured booklet (pdf 1.2mb))

Arabic (pdf 488kb) | Chinese (pdf 719kb) | Korean (pdf 724kb) | Spanish (pdf 464kb) | Turkish (pdf 469kb) | Vietnamese (pdf 473kb) |

Helping your child with literacy and numeracy in the middle school: Years 6-8

• Ideas to use at home (download coloured booklet (pdf 3052kb))

Arabic (pdf 653kb) | Chinese (pdf 1186kb) | Korean (pdf 1285kb) | Spanish (pdf 611kb) | Turkish (pdf 626kb) | Vietnamese (pdf 676kb) |

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Parent Organisations

Council of Catholic Parents

Federation of Parents and Citizens' Associations of NSW

NSW Parents Council