Learning and Teaching

Welcome to Our Parent Volunteers

We are delighted to welcome our parent volunteers who will be working alongside our Foundation–Year 2 staff to support students during their literacy and numeracy sessions.

Your time, enthusiasm, and encouragement make a real difference in the learning of our youngest students. Thank you for partnering with us to nurture their skills, confidence, and love of learning. We look forward to working together to make these sessions meaningful and engaging for all.

Literacy at Home

Engaging in literacy activities at home can help develop your child’s reading ability, comprehension and language skills, and improve your child’s interest in reading, attitude toward reading, and focus.

Focus for:

 F-2 students

Activities families can do at home to foster early literacy development include joint reading, drawing, singing, storytelling, reciting, game playing, and rhyming. When joint reading, you and your child take turns reading parts of a book. When reading, ask your child to connect to the story. Have them tell you more about what they are thinking. You can use their interests to choose books. Give positive feedback and ask open-ended questions during joint reading to boost interest and critical thinking skills.

Grades 3-4

For older children, play word games, talk about word meanings, and point out interesting or new words when reading together. Ask questions before, during, and after reading aloud. This can help your child focus attention on the ideas in the story. Before reading, look at the book cover and talk about what might happen in the story. During reading, ask what questions he has about the story. After reading, talk about what happened. Ask your child to sum it up and relate the story to what he already knows or has experienced.

Grades 5-6

For adolescents, engage in conversations, offer a literacy-rich environment, and be a strong model for reading. Talk about school, magazines, or current events. Ask them what they are reading and discuss the books. Have a lot of age-appropriate and grade-level reading material around your home. Model good literacy behavior by reading regularly yourself.

For those who speak a language other than English at home

If you speak a different language at home, speak and read to your child in that language. This can help grow his/ her vocabulary and make connections at school. It can also increase their curiosity and readiness to learn at school. Learning opportunities in a home language will help literacy learning in English.