Learning Support Guides

07 Sep 2026

The NSW Education Standards Authority have published parent and carer guides to help support your child at home in the learning areas of Maths and English.

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The guides have been developed in conjunction with the current syllabus and each subject has three guides specific to learning stages Kindergarten, Years 1-2 and Years 3-6.

Families may find these guides helpful as a reference when supporting your children with their learning at home.

Mathematics K-2

Kindergarten

Years 1-2

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Mathematics 3-6

You have an important role in supporting your child at home in their learning.

What will my child learn?

By studying mathematics, students develop essential numeracy knowledge and skills and develop an understanding of concepts in Number and Algebra, Measurement and Space, Statistics and Probability.

Students develop understanding of and fluency in mathematics through exploring and connecting mathematical concepts, choosing and applying mathematical techniques to solve problems to communicate their thinking, and reasoning both coherently and clearly.

Years 3-6

How will my child benefit?

The study of Mathematics can benefit your child by helping them to:

become a confident user and communicator of mathematics
develop an increasingly sophisticated understanding of mathematical concepts and processes
interpret and solve problems
make connections within mathematics and the world around them.

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What can I do to help?

You can help your child at home by:

expressing a positive attitude towards learning by using phrases like let’s work it out together and avoiding phrases like I was bad at maths
playing games that involve counting or addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, like card games, bingo or dominoes
playing games that involve strategy or looking for patterns such as boxes, noughts and crosses, guessing games
estimating how long it takes to get to locations such as the shops, a friend’s house or school
reading the time on digital displays and analog clocks
discussing how you use mathematics every day such as estimating time, adding amounts of money, reading the temperature, reading speed signs
discussing how you use benchmark amounts, such as half, one-quarter, three-quarters in different ways, such as knowing 50% is half
noticing and discussing how to read large numbers such as game scores
sharing your strategies for working out everyday mathematics problems such as finding the ‘best buy’ in the supermarket, how to calculate if you have been charged the correct amount
using and discussing different units of measurement when cooking such as grams, millilitres, litres, fractions (¼ of a cup, ½ a cup, ½ a tablespoon)
naming days of the week and months of the year, contextualising times of the year using special celebrations such as birthdays or cultural events
collecting data together about something you both find interesting, such as the kinds of pets people have.

English K-2

Kindergarten

Years 1-2

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English 3-6

You have an important role in supporting your child at home in their learning.

What will my child learn?

Through speaking, listening and interacting with others, your child will have the opportunity to learn to express their ideas and communicate effectively. They will be able to build on the foundational skills to read and write with increasing fluency.

Your child will engage with a wide range of quality literature, including: stories, poetry, plays and multimedia, for enjoyment and to learn about themselves, their community and the world.

Your child will learn to appreciate, reflect on and build knowledge about how language works. This will help them learn to make meaning when reading and viewing texts, and to create texts in ways that are imaginative, creative, interpretative, critical and powerful.

Years 3-6

How will my child benefit?

The study of English can benefit your child by helping them to:

communicate clearly and confidently by interacting and presenting in different social and learning situations
deepen their knowledge and use of vocabulary to support oral language, reading and writing skills
choose the most appropriate words for different learning contexts
use a range of strategies to spell, read and write words that may be increasingly unfamiliar
use grammar and punctuation to express themselves effectively
read with accuracy and with expression appropriate for the type of text
write longer and more complex texts for different purposes
use quality literature to learn more about the world and their place within it.

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What can I do to help?

You can help your child at home by:

engaging in deep conversation about topics they are interested in
encouraging them to speak clearly and in full sentences
closely monitoring the amount of time they spend on screens and the suitability of content
creating an interest for learning new vocabulary, introducing and exploring new words during conversations or reading books
explaining what new words mean and making connections to words in your home language, if relevant
frequently using new words and encouraging your child to use these new words when speaking or communicating
providing many different types of books and stories that may be of interest to your child for independent reading, such as fiction, informative texts and comics, including books in your home language, if relevant
sharing the reading of more complex texts – both younger and older children enjoy being read to
critically discussing favourite characters, settings and plot lines in stories
discussing the creators of books, films and songs; how they present their ideas and the different purposes for them
encouraging your child to keep a journal to record their thoughts and ideas for reflection.