celebrating literacy and numeracy
National Literacy and Numeracy Week
in New South Wales 1-7 September 2008
Regional Initiatives
2006 New South Wales Regional Initiatives:
Region: Hunter and Central Coast
Initiative:
- Twelve schools who submitted NLNW applications to create displays, including a 'poster walk', for other schools to view at regional workshop on successful practice
Target audience:
Other regional schools, K-12 and parents
Anticipated outcomes
- Public recognition and acknowledgement of school community achievements.
Region: Illawarra and South East
Initiative
- Chain Story Writing to be conducted in shopping centres across the region
- Numeracy activities including interactive whiteboard for public viewing
Target audience:
Community and 5-9
Anticipated outcomes
- Importance and development of literacy promoted in the community
- Creative student engagement
- Community insight into numeracy concepts.
Region: New England
Initiative and target audience:
- Creation and production of K-6 Numeracy Take-home Packs
- K-6 and parents - Small School Maths Problem-solving and Challenge Days
- K-6 - Regional Sudoku Championship
- 5-10 and parents - Regional Junior Bush Poet Championship
- K-10 and parents - Regional Celebration of literacy and numeracy
- K-10, parents and teachers
Anticipated outcomes
- Improved student learning outcomes through engagement in numeracy activities using literacy and community involvement
- Improved student engagement in numeracy activities and professional learning for teachers.
Region: North Coast
Initiative and target audience:
- Three writing workshops to develop skills with published authors. Final work to be published in an anthology
- Talented students 3 -10 - Afternoon workshops addressing needs of students and encouraging engagement and involvement
- Parents, teachers and other community members
Anticipated outcomes
- Improved student writing to meet writing outcomes in Syllabus.
Region: Northern Sydney
Initiative:
- Noisy Numbers Podcast Show (- podcasting a mathematical scenario for an imaginary radio show that brings the pages of textbooks to life) - a rich numeracy, literacy and ICT task
Target audience:
K-10, Parents
Anticipated outcomes
- Develop students' literacy skills through performing arts
- Develop ICT skills
- Develop use of mathematical terminology and conventions.
Region: South Western Sydney
Initiative:
- Everything's a Maths Problem - a theme for print, visual and multimodal texts - eventual celebration in NLNW
- Publication of winning texts
- Bilingual and home language texts to be submitted as well as English
Target audience:
K-12, parents and community groups
Anticipated outcomes
- Improve students' visual, multimodal and literacy skills around mathematical concepts
- Heighten students' awareness of the prevalence of mathematics in their everyday lives
- Improve students' skills in solving mathematical problems
- Improve teachers' integration of ICT
- Promote NLNW across the region.
Region: Sydney
Initiative:
- Literacy and numeracy project - various activities to promote understanding and interrelatedness of literacy and numeracy.
Target audience:
5-10
Anticipated outcomes
- Promote awareness of literacy and numeracy interrelationships
- Teachers learn and use more strategies for teaching literacy and numeracy using a common set of resources
- Students develop real world understandings of literacy and numeracy, especially current events reported in the media
- ICT skills to be enhanced or developed.
Region: Western NSW
Initiative and target audience:
- Digital literacy competition called 'Learning Together' in Bathurst and Orange districts. Students to use Photostory, PowerPoint or other visual images
- Stages 3 and 4 - Celebration for award winners
-Parents, other community members, sponsors and teachers - Teacher workshop using digital literacy
-Teachers in Orange and Bathurst
Anticipated outcomes
- Develop students' digital literacy skills.
- Encourage students to use a range of digital literacy skills.
- Showcase skill development to community members.
- Provide teachers with strategies and skills to use digital literacies in their classrooms.
Region: Western Sydney
Initiative:
- Data analysis from high-performing schools in region from state-wide testing in literacy and numeracy.
- Event for recognition of schools throughout the region - presentation, media promotion, children's author as guest speaker.
Target audience:
K-12 and community
Anticipated outcomes
- Promotion and showcasing of literacy and numeracy achievements with region
- Increased public awareness of NLNW and regional schools - successes and achievements.
... 2006 NSW National Literacy and Numeracy Awards
© DET 2007