Specialist Times

This semester (Terms 3 & 4) all Foundation students will participate in the following specialist classes on Tuesdays:

Visual Arts, Physical Education (P.E.) and Information Communication Technology (I.C.T.). Please make sure your child has their art smock at school.

PMP lessons will continue this term and will occur fortnightly on Friday afternoons. Our first PMP session for Term 4 will be in Week 5, Friday 6th November. Students should wear their sports uniform every Friday so there is no confusion.

Students are to wear their P.E. uniforms on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Library Borrowing

We will commence library borrowing in Week 2 of Term 4. Students will need to bring in their library bag, and will change books every week. Students can borrow 1 book per week.

Our borrowing day is Monday.

Homework Statement

Both the green (homework) and the blue (communication) folders will be in use this term. We will be continuing to give students new readers on Mondays and collecting the readers on Fridays. Please record and sign off on your child’s nightly reading in their ‘Reading Record’ book so that the teachers can monitor their reading.

Please continue practising the M100W words with your child so that they can be tested on their respective day.

Speaking and Listening Experience

We will be commencing Speaking and Listening Experience in Week 3 (Monday 19th of October) this term. Students are invited to share certain objects for Speaking and Listening Experience on their M100W testing day.

Below is the list of topics we ask students to focus on for Speaking and Listening Experience. They may show an item or prop to help them.

Students should try and speak about their topic for about a minute and at the end they will choose up to 2 friends from the audience to ask a question. Please discuss with your child what they are going to say about their Speaking and Listening Experience topic so that they are prepared.


Week 3	19/10 - 23/10	Tell us/show us what you like to do after school
Week 4	26/10 - 30/10	Teach the class how to do something… (dance, draw, make)
Week 5	4/11 - 6/11	Bring in a piece of artwork that you have done
Week 6	9/11 - 13/11	What is your favourite food and why?
Week 7	16/11 - 20/11	Favourite toy
Week 8	23/11 - 27/11	Favourite bedtime book
Week 9	30/11 - 3/12	What is your favourite memory and why?
Week 10	7/12 - 11/12	What are you most excited about for Year 1?

Important dates and events

Monday October 12

All student Foundation to Year 6 students return to onsite learning and Teddy Bear Picnic

Friday October 23

Grand Final Public Holiday

Friday October 30

Hands on Science Incursion

Monday November 2

School Closure Day

Tuesday November 3

Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

Monday 23 to 27 November

Book Fair Week TBC

Friday December 4

School Closure Day - Planning 2021

Thursday December 10

Semester Two Reports go live

Monday December 14

New Classes for 2021

Wednesday December 16

End of School Year 1pm

Foundation - Term Newsletter

TERM 4

Issue 3 · 09 Oct 2020

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