{"id":170634,"date":"2017-02-22T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T06:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=170634"},"modified":"2020-07-25T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:53:11","slug":"website-brings-school-lessons-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/02\/22\/website-brings-school-lessons-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Brings School Lessons To Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198216\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/llewobrien.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198216\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/llewobrien.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/llewobrien.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/llewobrien-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Member for Wide Bay Llew O&#8217;Brien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>February 22, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local families can help their children excel at school thanks to a new website launched by the Federal Government this week.<\/p>\n<p>Member for Wide Bay Llew O\u2019Brien said the new website, &#8220;Learning Potential Resources&#8221;, was filled with hundreds of ideas, activities, games and videos to help parents of primary school children get involved in their child\u2019s learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new website gives parents access to the resources that teachers are using in the classroom, and adapts them to help parents bring those lessons to life in the home environment,\u201d Mr O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearning Potential Resources shows how to turn everyday activities like cooking, watering the garden or walking the dog into a fun and interactive learning opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The website supports the Australian Curriculum for primary school and contains three main sections, which include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>41 &#8220;every day ideas&#8221; to show parents how to practice literacy and numeracy skills with their child during everyday life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>80 &#8220;practice together&#8221; articles to guide parents on how they can reinforce literacy and numeracy skills their child is learning at school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>80 &#8220;practice online\u2019&#8221;activities, including internet games and videos that parents and children can do together to practice these same skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said parental engagement was a key factor in enhancing a child\u2019s learning, supporting the vital work teachers do.<\/p>\n<p>He said the new website complemented the popular Learning Potential app, which has been downloaded more than 119,000 times since it was launched in August 2015.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>External link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningpotential.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learning Potential Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local families can help their children excel at school thanks to a new website launched by the Federal Government this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":267222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,395],"tags":[35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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