celebrating literacy and numeracy
National Literacy and Numeracy Week
in New South Wales 1-7 September 2008
Previous Updates
May 2005
Why not encourage your child or students to immerse themselves in poetry as part of their literacy development and compose an entry for the Dorothea Mackellar poetry competition? The theme for 2005 is Water.
The Year 7 booklet, Helping your child in Year 7 with literacy and numeracy, has been translated into six languages from the English: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese. The translations are available from the Parent brochures link.
March 2005
For 2005 there is a revised format for the school's application form for a literacy or numeracy achievement award. It offers in red font various prompts for responses to the criteria along with textboxes for the actual responses. Schools are asked to delete the red prompts once their application form has been completed.
The Federal Education Minister, Dr Brendan Nelson will be sending a direct mailout to schools this month with information regarding NLNW. All schools participating in the awards selection will receive a Certificate of Participation.
Schools applying for an award should remember that the committee assessing the awards will be looking for quality submissions as this is a national initiative.
On Monday 29 August 2005, the Minister, the Hon Carmel Tebbutt MLC will present the Awards to school representatives. Details of the ceremony will be in following updates.
February 2005
From 9 February 2005, information about applying for the 2005 National Literacy and Numeracy Week awards will be available on the Australian Government Department of Education Science and Training web site at http://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/
This year the submission pro forma includes guiding questions to assist schools. The questions will help schools organise and present information about their literacy or numeracy initiative, to inform selection committees about the value of the literacy and/or numeracy project.
This year there will be:
- one Excellence Award of $10 000 for a NSW government school in literacy or numeracy achievement
- twelve Highly Commended Awards of $5 000 each for NSW government and non-government schools in either literacy or numeracy achievement.
There will also be four national Excellence Awards for non-government schools in either literacy or numeracy achievement.
... 2005 NSW National Literacy and Numeracy Awards
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