Cross curriculum content enriches and supports the learning areas and adds depth to student learning. In NSW students study a range of learning across the curriculum content.
Cross curriculum priorities
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
- Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
- sustainability
General capabilities
- critical and creative thinking
- ethical understanding
- information and communication technology capability
- intercultural understanding
- literacy
- numeracy
- personal and social capability
Other learning across the curriculum areas
- civics and citizenship
- difference and diversity
- work and enterprise.
© NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2012
Learning resources
In this section, you will find resources to support you in helping your child to learn. We will gradually add to this section. If you know of any really helpful resources that other parents might find handy, just give us a ring and we'll add them here.
Literacy
When I'm listening to my child read, what do I do when they come across a word they don't know?
This brief brochure steps you through supporting your child in this situation.
Pause, prompt, praise (PDF 378KB)
When I need to prompt my child, what questions can I ask?
When you prompt your child, you are cueing them into aspects of the text that will help him work out what the unknown word is. This next document is a series of questions or cues you can ask your child to help him work out the unknown word. Don't rush straight into "sounding out". Many words in English can't be sounded out. You don't need to use all the questions here each time your child comes across a word he cant read. Start with "Think", then "Look", the "Listen".
If you need more explanation of these strategies, just pop into school and ask your child's teacher for some help.