Computer program to develop skills

Woy Woy Public School will use a computer program this year to develop literacy and numeracy skills.

"Mr Betts, our new assistant principal, is busy setting up Future School for this year," school principal Ms Ona Buckley said.

"All our students K-6 have log-ons to the program which can be accessed from their home computer.

"We are hoping that most stage two and three students will be using literacy and maths lessons set each week by their teachers as their homework.

"The teachers think this would be great too as the computer program marks the work automatically and sends the results to the class teacher.

"It is a great thing for our school to have been given a free year's subscription to this program."

Ms Buckley said the school aimed to take full advantage of it.

Newsletter, 26 Feb 2009 Woy Woy Public School