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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.
Help your kids with school
- 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.
Library resources & services
- 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.