Parents

Early Years/Preschool

Scarborough Southwest Ontario Early Years Centre: Parenting and Early Years Resources

Children's Education in Ontario

Ontario Ministry of Education Frequently Asked Questions page for Parents


Back to School Tips

Many, many  Tools and Tips for your Child including handouts for parents for Helping with Reading, Writing and Mathematics from the Ontario Minstry of Education.


Parents Count Too - Excellent suggestions from Australia for math support at home in English and 22 other languages including Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, Indonesian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Thai, Tongan, Turkish and Vietnamese.
Pamphlets included are on the topics of Counting, Arithmetic, shapes and objects, measurement of various types, and also games to play to support mathematical development.


Helping your Child with Mathematics- Patterning and Algebra: A separate link not included in the link above.

Helping your child with patterns and algebra outlines activities to help children to recognise, make, describe and continue repeating patterns. They will learn to find missing numbers in a pattern and determine the rule when describing a pattern.

Adult Education

Local Upgrading, Colleges and Universities

ESL/Newcomer Information


TDSB Adult English as a Second Language Classes

  LINC (Language Intruction for Newcomers to Canada)

Settlement.org - Welcome to Ontario Information about Public Schools

Free resource from Citizenship and Immigration Canada: “Alone in Canada: 21 Ways to make it better.” Appropriate for parents and secondary school students.
*Available in: English and Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, French, Hindi, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Twi, Urdu

Telephone: 1-800-661-1111 or 416-595-6059 to order

www.211Toronto.ca - FINDHELP Information Services – a multilingual online assistance services for newcomers ·FINDHELP also offers multilingual assistance by phone 24 hours a day, 7   days a week, for those in the 416 and 647 area codes

Walter Perry School Links


Mental Health and Well-Being Belongs to Us...

Professional Support Services in the TDSB!

http://www.tdsb.on.ca/elementaryschool/supportingyou/mentalhealthstrategy/newsletter.aspx


Parent Academy Website

TDSB's Model Schools for Inner Cities' has created a website that offers parents an opportunity to complete a unique survey in hopes of finding out what their needs are with respect to their child's school.

As well, through the website, parents are able to access community resources, and updates having to do with Parent Academy meetings, events and the end-of-year Parent Academy Conference.

For full details, visit the website at: https://sites.google.com/tdsb.on.ca/lc3parentacademy/home