This resource provides a pictorial essay about how to create a recycling system in an urban primary school. Use this resource to inspire your school to think about and actualise sorting rubbish in a 700+ student school.

This Aboriginal story (language group unknown) is a creation story about turtles. It is in PowerPoint format. Use this story to provide an Aboriginal perspective in literacy. The title slide references the source of the story. The final slide provides a link to an animated version of the story of Wayamba (Wayambeh). Compare representations of the story. Ask students to make their own representation.

This resource is a drama lesson plan for Kindergarten using the award winning picture book, ‘I want my hat back’ by Jon Klassen. This lesson plan addresses the NSW Creative Arts-Drama syllabus outcomes and references and describes process drama strategies. A writing task and worksheet are included. A Notebook is also included which provides the images necessary to work through the lesson plan.

This PowerPoint presentation is in the form of an early readers simple text. It introduces the topic of 3D space specifically cones, cubes, cylinder and spheres. It has a repetitive structure and contains the high frequency words look, like, what, and am . Teachers can use it as a guided reading text.

Simple texts that can be used when teaching and learning about mass, capacity, fractions and 3D objects in early years mathematics. Use texts to integrate literacy into mathematics or as an advanced organisier of the key ideas in each topic. Each repetitive text uses age appropriate high frequency words and mathematics vocabulary.

This resource is a one page calendar that countdowns the days to the beginning of the 2020 school year. Add it as a hard or soft copy to the information pack given to students transitioning to Kindergarten in 2020. Each day on the calendar suggests an activity which will help prepare students for their first year of primary school. It also contains links to YouTube clips to support the practise of these skills. Personalise it to your school. Add your school name, starting times and before school starts get togethers.

A printable Frayer Model for mathematics to be used as a pre and post assessment task. Begin the unit by getting student to fill out the graphic organiser. It will show teachers what students already know on a topic. At the end of the topic provide the model again to show student achievement. Get students to reflect on their growth by comparing their pre and post assessment. The model is colour coded to support young students and those that require additional support. Teacher notes are provided. A Word and PDF example are provided if teachers would like to make their own adjustments.