Parent Resources

We encourage parents to actively support their children's learning journey, both in school and at home. Discover the following parent resources tailored to enhance your child's success in both environments.

Active parental involvement in your children's education is crucial for their engagement and academic success. By attending school events, discussing specific learning topics with your child, familiarising yourself with their teachers, and showing interest in their schoolwork and favorite subjects, you play a vital role in nurturing their enthusiasm for learning. Research consistently highlights parent engagement as one of the most effective ways to promote high levels of achievement in children..

Literacy and Maths Resources

Tips for kids from pre-school to year two

Maths

Literacy

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A considerable body of research has identified various child and parent factors that contribute to and maintain anxiety symptoms in children. Yet relatively few studies have examined child factors (including threat-based cognitive bias, neuroticism, gender, puberty and age) as well as parent factors (including maternal anxiety and child-rearing style) and the extent to which these factors serve as predictors of child anxiety. 

A Griffith University team in Queensland set out to examine the extent to which child and parent factors are uniquely associated with child anxiety symptoms. They also set out to determine whether associations of child factors (which included child neuroticism and cognitive bias) with child anxiety were indirect via maternal rearing behaviour. 

The participants were a large sample of children between 7 and 12 years of age with varying levels of anxiety, including those with diagnosed anxiety disorders. Data were collected from both children and parents, and age, gender and pubertal status were also considered.

Staying Safe Online

Cyber Safety

Tips for kids from year three to year six

Maths

Literacy

Camp Sports and Excursions Fund

Child and Parent Factors That Impact Child Anxiety

Key findings:

Parental anxiety is a significant risk factor for child anxiety, given the higher than expected incidence rates of anxiety in parents of anxious children, compared to the general population.

Mothers who self-reported more trait anxiety had children with higher levels of self-reported anxiety symptoms.

Mothers’ anxious child-rearing and over-protection were associated with elevated child anxiety symptoms.

Child temperament characterized by high levels of arousal and emotionality may evoke child- rearing behaviours from mothers focused on minimising potential risk exposure and harm, which in turn, could elevate anxiety symptoms.

Early maturing girls experience more symptoms of anxiety and depression, and these symptoms are more stable over a subsequent four-year period than in normally maturing girls. 

Pubertal stage is considered a more powerful predictor of girls’ internalising symptoms and disorders than chronological age and in comparison with boys.

Children were more anxious when they were reported to be more advanced in pubertal status by their parents, when they had a tendency to interpret more threats in ambiguous situations, and when they self-reported more neuroticism.

Things you can do:

Chill out more often. Make time for yourself and time for your kids. Take a long walk together, visit a bookshop or library where kids can relax without having to talk).

As a family, practise relaxation techniques (deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, exercise, visualisation, laughing, stretching, dancing, listening to music, singing, reading together, meditating together).

Reassess your parenting style. Are you a helicopter parent or in danger of becoming one?

Keep screen time to a minimum, especially if your child is excitable or easily agitated.

Encourage age-appropriate independence – and not just for your kids. You need time out to be as independent of them as they are of you.

Talk often about fears and how they can, in many cases, be unfounded. 

Make sure your kids know how and where to contact you in an emergency – not every five minutes.

Ensure everyone has a good night’s sleep and that healthy family nutrition is a top priority.

Parent from the heart, rather than parenting from online advice and the myriad of books on how to be a ‘super’ parent.

Source: Waters, et al., Journal of Anxiety Disorders 26 (2012) pp737-745

Staying safe online is everyone’s business. At the following link you may find some practical hints to help you help your child.

Threats to children’s internet safety include invasions of privacy, cyberbullying, sexting and harassment. Options to protect your children include parental controls, apps and tracking software. But the most effective way to keep your kids safe is to talk with them about online risks, how to avoid them and how they can come to you when something goes wrong.

Your Child's teacher can provide advice about how you can help develop your child’s

literacy and maths skills. Some topics you could discuss with the teacher include:

• Your child’s level of achievement on literacy and maths tasks.

• The goals your child is working towards in literacy and maths, and how you can support your child to achieve these.

• Strategies you can use to assist your child in areas that he or she finds difficult.

The Victorian Government's website Connect-Primary includes games you can play with your child to build their literacy and maths skills.

Cyber Safety follow up for parents - a helpful handout

Victoria Police’s Tracey Porter has provided the following document that provides more information regarding checking settings, ideas for agreements in the form of a letter to a child, parental controls and privacy settings.

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If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.

The annual CSEF amount per student is: $125.

CSEF will be provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.

Please contact the school office for an application form.