Learning

Primary School Children

Alternative education: Explore options for an alternative education for your children.
Educators keeping heritage alive: An interview with Cindy Hey, Heritage education co-ordinator at Ferrymead Heritage Park.

Building Literacy Skills at Home: Tips for supporting your child's reading development.
Children’s Picture Books that Teach Mathematics Concepts: Use these fun books to support your kid's maths learning.
Dialogic Reading: In Dialogic Reading the adult helps the child become the teller of the story. The adult becomes the listener, the questioner, an audience for the child.
Starting School: Some resources to help you choose a school for your child and get them ready to start school.

Children's Collections: What we have in our libraries for kids.
Kids' homework zone: Fact sheets and web sites to help your kids with their homework.
Learning Centres: Learning Centres run sessions for school children and the community.
Reading Lists: Stories to read to your kids and get them reading for themselves.

Our CINCH database lists hundreds of courses and programmes in the Christchurch area more

Our three Learning Centres run a variety of programmes throughout the year for students, teachers and the community more