Foundation Unit

This fortnight, the Foundation students have enjoyed putting their new procedural writing skills to the test, completing a writing piece entitled ‘How to make a potion'. All sorts of interesting and creative ingredients went into our ‘cauldrons’ and the students wrote out five steps to create their potion of choice. 

During reading lessons, we have continued to look at the text structure of procedural texts, as well as exploring the author’s purpose of a text. 

In our Phonics practice this fortnight, the students experimented with their knowledge of split digraphs, learning how vowel sounds can be changed from short to long sounds by adding an ‘e’ on the end, such as in the words ‘mad’ to ‘made’, or ‘pin’ to ‘pine’. 

During our Maths lessons, the students have been exploring location and length. In location, students have been describing the location of objects using keywords such as on top, next to, in between and under. In length, the students have been using informal units to measure the length of objects and compare the length of objects.

Foundation Teachers

Libby Cannon (PLC), Bree Smith (PBS)