Communities

Fairfield, New South Wales

About the community

Fairfield is a western suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield is located 29 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Fairfield. Fairfield is one of the most multicultural and culturally diverse cities in Australia, with more than half of the residents having been born overseas, mostly in non-English speaking countries.

Fairfield and the Let's Read program

In 2016 a, total of 200 Let’s Read book packs were delivered in partnership with Fairfield City Council Supported Playgroup, Karitane Linking Families, CORE Multicultural Communities and Smith Family - Learning for Life program.

Community stories

Fairfield Public School (Schools as Community Centres) – Kristina Pukeroa

Let’s Read is a great program which covers all emergent literacy skills in young children, which is also user friendly in supporting and educating parents in engaging with their children in both structured and spontaneous situations. The Let’s Read resources allowed us to develop a home borrowing library for the families of my playgroups.  Instead of “Little Libraries” handing books out for families to keep, we decided  children would read the book a few times and then as they grew older would lose interest in that particular book, so we  kept the books in the SaCC room and developed a library instead, where families would be exposed to a wider variety of books and be able to take the books home and read together. Families would also be able to implement the strategies which they have learnt from the Let's Read program and have the group come back to on a weekly basis to debrief, ask questions or gain support from facilitators and other parents.

Himadri Deka, Programs Coordinator, Learning for Life | The Smith Family

Sponsors

 The Let's Read program in Fairfield is sponsored by The Smith Family.

 

Key contact

The Smith Family

E letsread@thesmithfamily.com.au