Learning Map for schools
A free page you can put on Help for Parents. Written for Australian primary staff and parent-help page authors — kitchen-table English, no login, nothing to roster.
The short version
- Free online resource for Foundation to Year 6 — whatever your state calls the first year.
- Skills across English, Mathematics, Science and more — what a skill means, how to tell a child has mastered it, and what comes next.
- Simple questions and activities families can try at home.
- Designed to align with the Australian Curriculum (candidate alignments — not an official mapping).
What it is
A free map of how primary-school skills build on each other, written in plain English for families. Every skill page says what the skill means, how to tell a child has it, what comes next, and one thing to try together at home. When a child is stuck, the map helps find the earlier step that’s missing — which is usually the actual problem.
It is designed specifically for Australian families, and designed to align with the Australian Curriculum. Matches on this site are candidate alignments — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1). They are not an official mapping, and ACARA, SCSA, NESA and VCAA have not endorsed this site.
How to put it on Help for Parents
Most schools already keep a community or Help for Parents list. A single link to learningmap.au is enough. Families land on a search box and can start from a year, a subject, or the sentence that sounds like their evening.
- Add a heading — “Learning Map” works.
- Link the homepage — https://learningmap.au/
- Paste the short blurb — the paragraph below is ready to copy as-is.
Paste-ready blurb
Copy this onto a Help for Parents page, a newsletter, or a Compass post.
Learning Map is a free online resource that helps parents understand their child’s learning journey from the first year of school to Year 6. It breaks learning down into clear, easy-to-understand skills across subjects such as English, Mathematics, Science, and more. Parents can explore what a skill means, how to recognise when their child has mastered it, and what learning comes next. The site also helps identify missing learning steps, and provides simple questions and activities families can use at home to support learning. It is designed specifically for Australian families and is designed to align with the Australian Curriculum.
Optional extra line, if you want the honesty on the same page:
Curriculum matches on Learning Map are candidate alignments — not an official mapping, and not endorsed by ACARA or SCSA.
If the newsletter only has room for a sentence:
Learning Map (learningmap.au) is a free website that helps parents see what their child is learning from the first year of school to Year 6 — what each skill means, how to tell it’s mastered, and what to try at home.
Nothing to install, no class list, no account. The site keeps no data about families. Optional progress ticks stay in the family’s browser.
Newsletter items, by time of year
Ready-to-paste paragraphs for the school newsletter, matched to the moments when families actually go looking. Copy, paste, done — edit freely.
Start of the school year
A free resource for the new school year: Learning Map is a map of what children learn from their first year of school to Year 6, written in plain English for families. Look up a skill your child is working on, see what it means, and find one thing to try at home. Free, no account.
Parent–teacher interview season
Coming to a parent–teacher chat this term? If a skill comes up, Learning Map explains what it means in plain English — what it builds on, how to tell it’s solid, and one thing to try at home — so the conversation can carry on at the kitchen table.
Report time
Reading your child’s report and wondering what a skill actually means? Learning Map is a free website that explains each primary-school skill in plain English — what it means, how to recognise it, and one thing to try together at home.
Mid-term, when something’s stuck
If homework has hit a wall this term, it’s usually not the topic itself — it’s an earlier step that needs another look. Learning Map starts from the sentence that sounds like your evening (“can’t read yet”, “times tables won’t stick”) and shows the one or two missing rungs. Free, no account.
School holidays
No worksheets these holidays. But if you’d like ten relaxed minutes at the kitchen table, Learning Map’s help-at-home guide has simple things to try — short sessions, follow your child’s pace, step back when it’s not fun.
Starting school next year
Got a little one starting school next year? Learning Map shows what the first year of school usually looks like, skill by skill, in plain English. Ages there are typical, not deadlines — it’s a map, not a checklist.
Families who speak another language at home
If English isn’t your family’s first language: Learning Map is written in plain English and works well with your browser’s translate feature — the languages page shows how, in 11 community languages.
For your IT and privacy review
The facts a resource-vetting checklist usually asks for, in one place:
- No accounts or logins — for staff, parents, or students. Nothing to roster, nothing to install.
- No student data. The site keeps no data about families and asks for none.
- No cookies. The only analytics is Plausible’s cookieless, aggregate kind, which can’t identify anyone.
- Progress ticks stay on the device. If a family uses Where we’re up to, what they record stays in their browser — it is never sent anywhere, and we can’t see it.
- No ads, no email capture, nothing to buy. Free is not a trial.
- Independent and Australian. Who runs it and why is on the about page; the data and method are open at /data/ and /method/.
If your school adds Learning Map to its website or newsletter, we’d love to know — say hello via the about page. It genuinely makes the week of the person who builds this.
Start here
Open the homepage →See a skill page →Stuck on something tonight →Help at home →Teacher door →
Curriculum doors
Staff who want to start from a code can come in through the curriculum hub. It has a door for every jurisdiction the map covers, all with the same standing. Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT teach Australian Curriculum v9 with local wrapping — the ACARA door is the right one there.
All 614 F–6 content descriptions with official text, year and strand — each with the skills matched to it.
NSW syllabus outcomes (NESA)Outcome codes and stage labels for the five K–6 syllabuses, with matched skills. Official outcome text lives at curriculum.nsw.edu.au.
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 (VCAA)F–6 content-description codes with levels and strands, matched skills and their closest AC9 codes. Official text lives at f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au.
Western Australia (SCSA)WA adapts the Australian Curriculum and publishes no content codes — here’s how to use the map (and the ACARA pages) if you’re in WA.
What this is — and isn’t
It’s a map, not a platform. There are no class accounts, no rostering, no assessment, and no student tracking. What it gives families is the structure: which skills exist, how they depend on each other, and words that work at the kitchen table. Teachers who want the sequencing view can start at Learning Map for teachers.
Nothing on this page is affiliated with or endorsed by ACARA, SCSA, NESA or VCAA. Always verify curriculum content against the official sources.