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This page contains the information and the catchment map for St Andrews Public School in Sydney, NSW. You can search for a particular school or address in the search box in the top right-hand corner of the embedded map or zoom into an area of interest on the map.

The most common name used by NSW Department of Education is called “catchment” which refer to that students resides in a particular area is guaranteed a position in specific schools. When discussed from the perspective of a particular school is often referred to as one of the following terms.

• School Zone
• School intake area
• School catchment

As usual contact the school in question or Department of Education for the final confirmation and you can also access the full NSW and Sydney Public School Catchment Map by following this link.

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This page contains the information and the catchment map for Lansvale Public School in Sydney, NSW. You can search for a particular school or address in the search box in the top right-hand corner of the embedded map or zoom into an area of interest on the map.

The most common name used by NSW Department of Education is called “catchment” which refer to that students resides in a particular area is guaranteed a position in specific schools. When discussed from the perspective of a particular school is often referred to as one of the following terms.

• School Zone
• School intake area
• School catchment

As usual contact the school in question or Department of Education for the final confirmation and you can also access the full NSW and Sydney Public School Catchment Map by following this link.

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Top ranking Western Australia Perth primary schools (Government/Public) for the year of 2015. The result is a combination of both year 3 and 5 numbers from NAPLAN. One thing to note is some schools listed have very low enrolment number so the result is possibly not a reliable reflection of the entire school’s performance and historically can have big fluctuations as well. This is why I also included the enrolment number here, some school got big enrolment number as well due to they are classified as combined with both primary and secondary components counted together. One more thing to note is that percentage is based on the number one primary school regardless of school sector Australia wide. Just so to be clear that particular school is Sydney Grammar School – Edgecliff Preparatory School and it is so far ahead of everybody else and is a bit of anomaly. Just about everybody else government or non-government pretty close together.

Ranking	School Name	State	School Sector	Location	Total Enrolment	Percentage
1	Schools Of Isolated & Distance Education	WA	Government	Major Cities	410	90.29%
2	Oberthur Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	634	89.22%
3	Nedlands Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	511	89.05%
4	Rosalie Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	560	89.04%
5	Churchlands Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	539	88.53%
6	Floreat Park Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	586	88.07%
7	Victoria Park Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	426	87.97%
8	Jolimont Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	266	87.83%
9	Applecross Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	530	87.81%
10	Wembley Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	807	87.81%
11	Kapinara Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	390	87.52%
12	Burrendah Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	620	87.08%
13	Dalkeith Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	350	87.00%
14	Carine Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	569	86.89%
15	Rostrata Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	793	86.64%
16	Winthrop Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	663	86.13%
17	Hollywood Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	272	86.06%
18	West Leeming Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	477	86.04%
19	Ardross Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	403	85.86%
20	Como Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	362	85.81%
21	Willetton Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	578	85.60%
22	Shelley Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	382	85.55%
23	Walkaway Primary School	WA	Government	Outer Regional	70	85.50%
24	Coolbinia Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	455	85.35%
25	Wattle Grove Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	667	85.28%
26	Poynter Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	504	84.99%
27	Subiaco Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	610	84.96%
28	Fremantle Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	226	84.89%
29	Rossmoyne Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	435	84.63%
30	Bull Creek Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	362	84.58%
31	East Fremantle Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	414	84.53%
32	Ranford Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	620	84.51%
33	Sorrento Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	418	84.48%
34	North Cottesloe Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	389	84.33%
35	Bicton Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	386	84.31%
36	Ballajura Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	691	84.14%
37	Manning Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	386	84.06%
38	Freshwater Bay Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	465	83.92%
39	Booragoon Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	403	83.90%
40	Mount Claremont Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	168	83.78%
41	Woodlands Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	459	83.75%
42	Dalmain Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	304	83.73%
43	West Leederville Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	511	83.66%
44	Highgate Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	595	83.39%
45	Wembley Downs Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	408	83.34%
46	Lake Gwelup Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	464	83.31%
47	Kyilla Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	295	82.92%
48	Riverton Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	573	82.76%
49	Richmond Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	429	82.71%
50	Hawker Park Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	218	82.56%
51	Doubleview Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	407	82.54%
52	Marmion Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	380	82.53%
53	Caladenia Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	784	82.46%
54	Bateman Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	273	82.42%
55	Leeming Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	261	82.32%
56	City Beach Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	163	82.19%
57	Karrinyup Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	463	82.19%
58	West Balcatta Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	524	82.13%
59	Millen Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	419	82.13%
60	Maylands Peninsula Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	674	82.12%
61	Dianella Heights Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	488	82.03%
62	Campbell Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	802	81.90%
63	Scarborough Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	149	81.86%
64	Balcatta Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	208	81.83%
65	Falls Road Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	294	81.73%
66	Cottesloe Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	335	81.71%
67	Banksia Park Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	295	81.63%
68	Mount Hawthorn Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	820	81.56%
69	North Beach Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	359	81.56%
70	Atwell Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	809	81.46%
71	Canning Vale Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	555	81.46%
72	Swanbourne Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	447	81.44%
73	Lake Monger Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	211	81.42%
74	North Woodvale Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	402	81.40%
75	Mount Pleasant Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	382	81.40%
76	Kensington Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	453	81.39%
77	Kardinya Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	406	81.35%
78	Melville Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	699	81.32%
79	Halidon Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	263	81.29%
80	North Perth Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	436	81.23%
81	Williams Primary School	WA	Government	Outer Regional	127	81.12%
82	West Greenwood Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	443	80.98%
83	Craigie Heights Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	354	80.98%
84	Attadale Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	375	80.96%
85	Glengarry Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	397	80.88%
86	Jerramungup District High School	WA	Government	Remote	123	80.81%
87	Narembeen District High School	WA	Government	Remote	110	80.79%
88	Beaconsfield Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	427	80.78%
89	Creaney Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	334	80.72%
90	Newborough Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	381	80.69%
91	Brentwood Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	327	80.57%
92	Condingup Primary School	WA	Government	Remote	65	80.57%
93	White Gum Valley Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	254	80.50%
94	Mount Lawley Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	494	80.49%
95	West Morley Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	254	80.45%
96	Darlington Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	402	80.40%
97	Collier Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	224	80.35%
98	Deanmore Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	497	80.33%
99	Woodvale Primary School	WA	Government	Major Cities	421	80.33%
100	Bunbury Primary School	WA	Government	Inner Regional	441	80.32%

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Top ranking NSW Sydney primary schools (Government/Public) for the year of 2015. The result is a combination of both year 3 and 5 numbers from NAPLAN. One thing to note is some schools listed have very low enrolment number so the result is possibly not a reliable reflection of the entire school’s performance and historically can have big fluctuations as well. This is why I also included the enrolment number here, some school got big enrolment number as well due to they are classified as combined with both primary and secondary components counted together. One more thing to note is that percentage is based on the number one primary school regardless of school sector Australia wide. Just so to be clear that particular school is Sydney Grammar School – Edgecliff Preparatory School and it is so far ahead of everybody else and is a bit of anomaly. Just about everybody else government or non-government pretty close together.

Ranking	School Name	State	School Sector	Location	Total Enrolment	Percentage
1	St Ives North Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	903	92.21%
2	Artarmon Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1125	92.16%
3	Murray Farm Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	930	91.89%
4	Pymble Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	657	91.76%
5	Carlingford West Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1050	91.50%
6	Matthew Pearce Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1344	91.30%
7	Woollahra Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	776	91.16%
8	Chatswood Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1180	91.11%
9	Waitara Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	732	90.84%
10	Epping Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	427	90.62%
11	Epping West Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1041	90.60%
12	Sydney Distance Education Primary School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	290	90.55%
13	Beecroft Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	817	90.33%
14	Hornsby North Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	837	90.26%
15	Glenmore Road Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	349	90.06%
16	North Rocks Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	745	90.06%
17	Eastwood Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	794	89.89%
18	Roseville Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	629	89.60%
19	Neutral Bay Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	986	89.51%
20	Gordon West Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	564	89.39%
21	West Ryde Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	538	89.33%
22	Lindfield East Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	764	89.31%
23	Cammeray Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	956	89.02%
24	Summer Hill Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	824	88.83%
25	Beauty Point Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	311	88.63%
26	John Purchase Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	671	88.63%
27	Cherrybrook Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	810	88.58%
28	Hurstville Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1230	88.54%
29	Lindfield Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	771	88.49%
30	Beaumont Road Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	419	88.48%
31	Mount Keira Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	88	88.17%
32	Denistone East Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	806	88.15%
33	Northbridge Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	573	88.07%
34	Epping Heights Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	464	87.97%
35	Warrawee Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	585	87.97%
36	Kent Road Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	595	87.81%
37	Kambora Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	194	87.80%
38	Randwick Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	881	87.78%
39	Gordon East Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	347	87.74%
40	Greenwich Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	495	87.69%
41	Balmain Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	335	87.52%
42	Mowbray Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	437	87.49%
43	Killara Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	440	87.47%
44	Westmead Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1271	87.47%
45	Haberfield Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	649	87.39%
46	Hunters Hill Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	378	87.37%
47	Epping North Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	420	87.23%
48	Lane Cove Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	840	87.20%
49	Balgowlah Heights Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	736	87.10%
50	Middle Harbour Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	624	86.79%
51	Lane Cove West Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	579	86.78%
52	Wahroonga Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	722	86.71%
53	Coorabell Public School	NSW	Government	Inner Regional	131	86.69%
54	Stanwell Park Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	149	86.55%
55	Hamilton South Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	425	86.54%
56	Oakhill Drive Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	706	86.52%
57	Dobroyd Point Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	254	86.50%
58	Leichhardt Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	705	86.40%
59	Bellevue Hill Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	611	86.38%
60	Darlinghurst Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	312	86.37%
61	Pennant Hills Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	564	86.37%
62	Dural Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	426	86.25%
63	Burnside Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	236	86.25%
64	Rose Bay Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	625	86.25%
65	Strathfield South Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	805	86.16%
66	Normanhurst West Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	505	86.16%
67	North Sydney Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	816	86.16%
68	Oatley West Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	547	86.15%
69	Mosman Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	687	86.08%
70	Earlwood Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	637	86.03%
71	Carlingford Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	504	85.94%
72	Picnic Point Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	398	85.91%
73	Kareela Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	391	85.87%
74	Annangrove Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	73	85.84%
75	Truscott Street Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	332	85.82%
76	Hornsby South Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	588	85.81%
77	Oatley Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	528	85.81%
78	Sutherland Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	238	85.77%
79	Thornleigh West Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	558	85.77%
80	St Ives Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	455	85.67%
81	Roselea Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	343	85.60%
82	Willoughby Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1091	85.47%
83	Main Arm Upper Public School	NSW	Government	Inner Regional	103	85.38%
84	Girraween Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1044	85.36%
85	Turramurra Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	566	85.36%
86	Castle Cove Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	459	85.31%
87	Parramatta Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	811	85.31%
88	Ermington Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	447	85.31%
89	Coal Point Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	222	85.28%
90	Erskineville Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	367	85.26%
91	Killarney Heights Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	723	85.23%
92	Hurstville South Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	497	85.16%
93	Ryde East Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	485	85.14%
94	Bronte Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	430	85.13%
95	Greystanes Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	730	85.13%
96	Normanhurst Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	327	85.09%
97	Gladesville Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	519	85.09%
98	Manly Vale Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	456	85.06%
99	Drummoyne Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	702	85.06%
100	Balgowlah North Public School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	634	85.02%

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Top ranking Northern Territory Darwin primary schools (Non-government/Private) for the year of 2016. The result is a combination of both year 3 and 5 numbers from NAPLAN. One thing to note is some schools listed have very low enrolment number so the result is possibly not a reliable reflection of the entire school’s performance and historically can have big fluctuations as well. This is why I also included the enrolment number here, some school got big enrolment number as well due to they are classified as combined with both primary and secondary components counted together. One more thing to note is that percentage is based on the number one primary school regardless of school sector Australia wide. Just so to be clear that particular school is Sydney Grammar School – Edgecliff Preparatory School and it is so far ahead of everybody else and is a bit of anomaly. Just about everybody else government or non-government pretty close together.

Ranking	School Name	State	School Sector	Location	Total Enrolment	Percentage
1	The Essington School Darwin	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	989	85.06%
2	Palmerston Christian School	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	300	78.21%
3	Marrara Christian College	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	402	77.54%
4	St Paul's Catholic Primary School	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	251	76.79%
5	Living Waters Lutheran School	NT	Non-government	Remote	299	76.75%
6	St Mary's Catholic Primary School	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	221	76.48%
7	Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic College	NT	Non-government	Remote	791	75.78%
8	Nhulunbuy Christian College	NT	Non-government	Very Remote	178	75.76%
9	Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	263	75.04%
10	Kormilda College	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	596	74.86%
11	St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	164	74.61%
12	Araluen Christian College	NT	Non-government	Remote	214	74.32%
13	Sattler Christian College	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	143	73.83%
14	Good Shepherd Lutheran College	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	N/A	73.40%
15	Holy Family Catholic Primary School	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	203	71.54%
16	Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School	NT	Non-government	Outer Regional	349	70.97%
17	St Joseph's Catholic College	NT	Non-government	Remote	277	67.18%
18	Murrupurtiyanuwu Catholic Primary School	NT	Non-government	Remote	216	46.66%
19	Ltyentye Apurte Catholic School	NT	Non-government	Remote	128	43.37%
20	St Francis Xavier Catholic School	NT	Non-government	Very Remote	49	42.40%
21	Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thamarrurr Catholic C...	NT	Non-government	Very Remote	670	38.23%
22	Yipirinya School	NT	Non-government	Remote	153	31.89%

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This is the designated neighbourhood zone for Seaford Primary School in Melbourne, Victoria. You can search for a particular school or address in the search box in the top right-hand corner of the embedded map or zoom into an area of interest on the map.

The proper name used by Victorian Department of Education is called “Designated neighbourhood school” which is what a particular address is zoned for the particular school. When discussed from the perspective of a particular school is often referred to as one of the following terms.

• Designated neighbourhood zone
• Designated neighbourhood boundary
• Neighbourhood zone
• School Zone
• School intake area
• School catchment

For the final confirmation please contact the school in question. You can also find the full Melbourne, Victoria public school zone map by clicking on the link.

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My Motorola phone recently received upgrade to Android Marshmallow 6.0 and I opt to upgrade straightway. Pretty much directly after upgrade, I am starting to having problem with the phone.

1. My phone was not connecting to the computer anymore when I plugged it in via using USB cable.
2. The phone keeps showing message that Google Play Service require update and because my play store is not working, I could not do that.
3. I was not able to connect to the Play Store it keeps returning connection time out error. (This issue most likely not related to the update, but happened at same time and compounded my dilemma greatly.)

As I end up spend a few days before sorting all these issue, I feel the need to write this down and share with everyone. So it may help some random people searching on Google and save them some major hassle.

The first problem is the easiest to resolve, after quick research it shows that Google changed how connection behavior works with connecting the phone to the computer via the USB cable. It is now defaulted to charging only, you will have to slide down the top menu and select the usb connection message, then choose the MTP option shows up afterwards. This will let the phone connect to the computer via MTP mode.

The second problem is a bit of bugger, because the phone is not able to connect to the Google Play Store, it is not able to update the Google Play Service app and apps that rely on this may not work. When you click on the message and try to update, it just bring you to the Play Store, because my third issue of not able to connect to it, the update fails and I am just stuck in a loop.

The third issue, that I keep getting connection time out and retry message when opening up Google Play Store. I checked and double checked my internet connection and everything worked fine without issue except Google Play Store. The problem is an Android Phone may as well be semi bricked if you cannot access the Play Store. I started searching on Google, there are a tonnes of advice, most of them by varies of Indian bloggers and essentially copying each other’s article, with resetting the store app cache etc and finally lead up to factory reset the phone.

I have no real important data on the phone but did not feel the problem justify a factory reset yet. So I keep researching for a solution. After whole bunch of resetting app data, side installing the latest Play Store etc. The Store is still not working for me and I was getting annoyed to say the least, I could have really spend the time on something useful rather than wasted on this. I charged one of my old phone and was getting the exact same issue, so at this stage I finally thought since everything else is working, why not try with Google’s own DNS. So I redid my wifi connection settings and put Google’s DNS server 8.8.8.8 into it, everything pretty much worked straightway.

So if you having connection time out retry with Google Play Store and everything else worked fine internet wise, please try changing your DNS server to the Google’s own and try. It worked wonders for me and could very well save you complete trashing your phone by factory reset.

 

The Sydney high school catchment map is about to get very funky, so I figure it is time to do a quick run down on different type of government/state high schools and its impact on the school catchment.

There are roughly four different type of secondary level government/state schools.

1. Selective High School
2. Girls High School
3. Boys High School
4. Coed High School

Selective high schools does not have specific catchment so they do not need to be taken into account when creating the map. Girls and Boys high school generally tend to have mirrored school, for example Homebush Boys and Strathfield Girls High School. These schools will have very similar catchment zones as well. Another thing is area that are under the catchment of girls and boys high schools will always be zoned for another coed high school as well. So what this means is that some address can be zoned for up to three different school.

What this also create is some really disjointed school catchments, for example refer to the St Ives High School Catchment Map that I have created yesterday. There are two distinctively separate catchment zone.

It is really hard to try accommodate three different type school catchment in one single map, even with different layers, the over lapping catchments will end up very difficult to work out. I will most likely do different map for girls, boys and coed high schools.

I recently this article “No advantage to being multi-lingual, Australian study finds” on SMH. This is another interesting one, as Australia and particular Sydney is traditionally immigrant country, just matter of when. There is also a very diverse origin of where the migrants came from. This makes sporting match fun as there is always supporters for whoever is playing and multi-lingual matter of fact for many children.

So this topic is certainly of much interest to many, the basic finding in the article is that being multi-lingual offers no advantage and disadvantage academically. This I agree with myself, provide the person in question is proficient in English, it is certainly case for all my friends. This in my experience generally holds true for kids who come before high school, for the older kids they tend to suffer a little with the humanitarian subjects which is not surprising.

Whilst being multi-lingual offers no advantage academically, it certainly offers a lot of advantages later on in your life. A couple of my friends secured excellent jobs with promising career due to their multi-lingual skills, these are positions they would have never secured without the proficiency in other languages.

For many children of immigrants in Australia, speaking the same language as their parents offers the closeness in relationship sometimes very difficult to achieve otherwise. I also had friends that never mastered the mother tongue that their parents spoke and because the limited English skill the parents command, the home conversation often limited to what I call “kitchen talk”. This is limited to day to day thing, like what you done today, what we having for dinner etc. However discussion of news topic, deeper discussions etc are all next to impossible.