At Lawnton we know that families have busy lives. Parents work and students have many after school commitments. We feel that students need to be rewarded for the informal and formal learning they pursue outside school hours. This is our way of acknowledging the things they do as essential to their healthy overall development as unique individuals.
You can help your child at home by:
- reading to them, talking with them and involving them in tasks at home including shopping, playing games and physical activity. This provides a real-world context and application to what our students are learning at school in particular in literacy and numeracy.
- encouraging them to read for fun. This could be a book or environmental text in the world around them.
- being curious and talking about what students are learning at school. In English our Lawnton Learners often talk to their teachers and peers about what they are learning and why? Ask your child about their celebrations 'got green' and 'think pink' next steps to help them develop their growth mindset about being a learner.