Parents resources to help keep you in the picture.

These parent materials include a range of brochures, audio files, videos and resources that provide information about helping your child with literacy. Some of the materials provide information for parents about specific things such as, how to help your child with spelling, whilst others provide more general information about literacy.

 A range of vidcasts and audiofiles are available for parents support and teacher professional learning @ Celebrating Literacy and Numeracy 

  What is NAPLAN?

Everyday numeracy K-4 (for parents) A series of numeracy-related activities to enjoy around the home is presented to develop deeper understanding and awareness of: shape, pattern, counting and number, measurement and calculating. (4 mins)

Why use maths?

Supporting young children's literacy development

Dr Paris shares rich insights into how literacy teachers and parents can support young learners, particularly in the important aspect of comprehension. Accompanying this video is a short interview wherein Dr Paris discusses such things as comprehension, reading assessment and ways to encourage children to read. (7 mins)

Critical numeracy in context

Teaching writing.

School Parents -Helping Mums and Dads with school life. e-zine (online magazine)

Check out the most recent and past issues.




Kids' who read, succeed!!! Cheers :-)

The wrong type of praise can be detrimental to your child's future.

 The #1 mistake parents make with praise (VIDEO)

Does your child give up easily? It could be because of a common parenting mistake. 

"The New York Magazine articles on parenthood Ashley Merryman coauthored with Po Bronson have been linked to by over 1,000 blogs. These articles have in turn helped form the foundation for NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, published in September 2009, an exploration of cutting edge research in child development and parenting that overturns many cherished myths about kids and what’s best for them."  http://www.poptech.org/ashleymerryman

Ashley Merryman talks at Poptalk 2009 

Are you concerned about your children's internet safety?

The Australian Government has a parent section with many support materials for your information.

If you are not sure of many of the terms used on the internet check out the glossary

Cybersmart CyberRules Poster 

THINK before you post Poster

How to Set Common PC Safety Settings including YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo and Google.

New interactive resource for parents now online available from October 27, 2010

An interactive cybersafety guide for parents is now online on the Cybersmart website bringing parents the information they need on current topics such as cyberbullying, sexting and protecting personal information.
The cybersafety guide for parents is a time effective resource with each video running for less than two minutes.

NSWDET presents a NEW parents page on the NEW NSWDET website

 The NSWDET parent's page contains highlights and a sampling of links to up-to-the-minute information about your child's education and school life, from preschool through Kindergarten to Year 6, and transition to high school.

It covers the following areas:

Curriculum and activities

Caring for students and families

This section provides insight into programs to support the individual needs of students and their families throughout their education with us.

 School life- the school handbook contains useful information about day-to-day practicalities, school routines and requirements, with topics ranging from homework to attendances and absences and school uniforms.

Transition to high school

 Visit the NSWDET Parents page

and their facebook page: 

 MySchoolKids Facebook Page

Mr Mead of Clempton Park, shares his post on Parent Helpers in the School.

He says:
While on leave, I had the opportunity to work in my son’s school canteen and as a parent helper within the classroom changing home readers. I had been aware for a long time of the immense benefit to teachers of having parents able to offer their time to help in the classroom but had until now not seen things from the other side. If you are already helping out around the school, you will understand the joy of helping others and seeing how happy the students are to have their parents around the place helping out. If you have some spare time in your week, why not see if you can help out around the school in some way.

Parent helpers are one of the greatest resources a school can have – with many benefits for the school and for the parents who volunteer. I have come up with the following benefits – have you experienced others?

Benefits for School:

* Able to contribute to better prepared, more individualised programs for students

* Able to offer better services and facilities to our students and community (eg uniforms etc)

* An active parent body is an essential part of a vibrant, positive school climate

* Children can display positive behabiours for their parents and carers who are actively involved in the school

Benefits for our Children:

* Children see parents and community members helping the school and they realise that it is important to all of us.

* Children see adults working together effectively and interacting in friendly, positive ways and it helps them

* Children can ask parents or carers to help out in specific roles and it makes them feel really special when their mum, dad or carer are in the school.

Benefits for our Parents:

* You meet lots of great people!

* You have a chance to be actively involved in your child’s education.

* You keep informed about what’s happening at the school and in your child’s class

* You get to see your child in a different social setting

* You can speak about school stuff with your child and really know what they are talking about!!

* You can build a strong, positive relationship with your child’s teacher – and this is one of the best things you can do for your child!

* You learn a heap of skills which can, in turn, assist you in helping your child.

 

 I could not run Sandy Beach Public School library without all the wonderful parent and grandparent helpers at SBPS.

I have parents who make library bags, parents who cover and repair books, parents who help by shelving and tidying the shelves, parents who help with creating designs, parents who assist at our annual bookfair. 

They are invaluable!! Without their assistance I would not be able to offer as many services to our students and staff.

Reading 10 minutes per day from a very young age is a great investment.

Information for parents

Recommended books:Reading aloud to your child is a wonderful opportunity to share and bond with your child.

Coffs Harbour City Library is one of many libraries that offer this program. 

My School website.

"THE My School website  profiles almost 10,000 Australian schools - government, independent and catholic - which can be found by location, sector or name.
The site, compiled by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, gives basic information such as enrolments, teacher numbers and Year 12 completion rates. Visitors can compare numeracy and literacy results for each school with up to 60 schools nationwide with similar socioeconomic profiles." from:    My School site an eyeful.



Teacher unions and some parents are worried myschool.edu.au will be used to create simplistic league tables that could stigmatise poor-performing schools.


In this video  Michael Coutts-Trotter, the Director- General of the NSW Department of Education, explains how the My School website gives parents a snapshot of each school's performance, in comparison to similar schools.

 For further information and interviews about this website:

 VIDEO: My School website interviews

Julia Gillard answers questions about the new My School website. - Herald Sun

My School Website: Will it portray accurate information about schools? 18/01/2010

NSW

  Media Release my school website will it portray accurate information about schools 

Advanced Glossary

This glossary provides an advanced explanation of some of the terms used on this website.

Click on the link for info about: My School website 

"Government schools urgently need not just more teachers, but more support staff.
Given the comparisons above, even if we doubled the number of support staff in most public schools tomorrow, they still would not come within cooee of many of their large private school neighbours."

"The MySchool website provides a clear and transparent direction about what needs to be done to maintain, support and improve Australia's education performance, particularly for the 70 per cent of students who attend public schools." fromThe great divide in school staff numbers  JANE CARO AND CHRIS BONNOR 1 Feb 2010

Take care with Wikipedia as anyone can edit it.

PARENTS WARNED OF WIKIPORN RISK
Parents have been warned not to let children use the website Wikipedia unsupervised after an entry on a popular children's book was edited to contain pornographic material.
Sexual and violent acts between characters were added last week to the online plot summary for Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, which is recommended for students in years 5 to 9.
The edited page for the book, on the list for the Premier's Reading Challenge, was visible for about an hour before it was changed to the original text.
NSW Parents Council executive officer of communications, Michelle FitzGerald, said "all parents" should be concerned.
"It is a concern to the council that the internet, if used inappropriately or not supervised, can lead children into areas where they really should not be," she said. "It really comes back to parental supervision on the internet."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/05/23/1242498976065.html

Kids' who read, succeed!!!
Cheers
:-)

The Family-School & Community Partnerships Bureau

The Family-School & Community Partnerships Bureau

has been set up to help Australian schools, families and

communities build sustainable, collaborative,

productive relationships.

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Research has shown that where effective partnerships

exist, the quality of schooling improves,

students enjoy more satisfying educational experiences,

and communities are strengthened.

The Australian Parents Website

The Multi Award Winning Australian Parents Website is a valuable resource for any family to refer to. It is sponsored by the Australian Government.

The extensive site houses a multitude of great ideas and suggestions that could make parents and carers lives a little happier!!

More parent information on SBPS Library Website

Information to support parents is available at the Parents weblink:

Hope it is useful.