Foundation Report

We would like to congratulate our Foundation students and families on a smooth transition into their first year at school. 

This term students have started our new explicit and systematic phonics and spelling program UFLI, where students are learning to blend, segment and manipulate phonemes within words. So far students have explicitly learnt the sounds /a/, /m/, /s/ and /t/. In the Literacy block, students have practised reciting rhymes, with a particular focus on understanding key vocabulary, retelling and sequencing the events from classic nursery rhymes.

 In Mathematics, students have engaged in a range of hands-on activities focusing on connecting numerals to quantities of objects to 10. Students have also focused on comparing and ordering collections to 10. The purpose of this is to ensure a strong foundation of the parts of numbers before moving to 2 digit numbers. 

As part of the Foundation Inquiry, students have begun learning about their emotions, brainstorming ways to regulate them when needed and who they can see when they need extra support. They have also learnt about ways to make friends and have practised this skill through play-based learning.