Assistant Principal
Semester One Reports
Teachers are currently working on preparing your child's Semester One Report. The report aims to give you a clear understanding of your child's areas of achievements in all taught curriculum areas and goals for future learning. Thank you to our wonderful teaching staff for all of their hard work and dedication during this report writing time.
In line with the new K-2 English and Mathematics Syllabus being introduced this year, the K-2 reports will look slightly different to those previous presented at Holy Family.
The new K-2 syllabus asks teachers to report of the following areas through the course of a school year.
| Kindergarten - English | Kindergarten- Mathematics |
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Oral Language and Communication Vocabulary Phonic Knowledge Reading Fluency and Comprehension Creating Written Texts | Number and Algebra Measurement and Space Statistics and Probability |
| Year One/Two - English | Year One/Two - Mathematics |
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Oral Language and Communication Vocabulary Phonic Knowledge Reading Fluency and Comprehension Creating Writing Texts -Creating -Spelling -Handwriting -Understanding and Responding to Literature | Representing Whole Number Combining and Separating Quantities Forming Groups Geometric Measure 2D Spatial Structure 3D Spatial Structure Non- spatial Structure Data Chance Working Mathematically
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Please note that all areas may not be reported on during Semester One reports.
In line with Syllabus and Diocesan recommendations, K-2 Semester One reports will not include a General Comment.
Parents will be invited to take part in interviews during Weeks 9 and 10 of this term.
Reports for students in Years 3-6 will remain the same until the introduction of new syllabus documents in 2024/2025
Sound Waves Spelling - Introduction
Recently the staff at Holy Family participated in professional development about the Sound Waves program for reading. After listening to the presentation and consultation with the staff, we have decided to implement the program (Years 1-6) until the end of 2023.
Sound Waves is a synthetic phonics and word study program. It was written and developed in Australia, meeting Australian and NSW curriculum requirements.
Children learn about speech sounds (phonemes) and the different letter or letters (graphemes) that represent these sounds in writing. For example, they learn that the same sound is used at the start of cat, king and chemist, but that the sound can be written in different ways (c, k or ch).
Children also learn about meaningful word parts, such as prefixes, suffixes and roots. For example, they learn that the prefix re can mean again in words like recycle, reheat and recheck.
Upper primary students also learn about where words come from to help them understand and remember unusual or difficult words. For example, they learn that the words architect and orchestra originate from the Greek language.
We believe that the program is effective in teaching spelling to all students at Holy Family and are looking forward to seeing some great results.
Please see the link below for more information. Further updates will be posted in upcoming newsletters.
Sound_Waves_An_overview_for_parents.pdf (fireflyeducation.com.au)