Foundation
Upwey South Primary School
Communicating with the Foundation Team
We look forward to partnering with you in 2024, and welcome your input:
Holly Peters Holly.Peters@education.vic.gov.au
Lisa Dam Lisa.Dam@education.vic.gov.au
Amy Ryde Amy.Ryde@education.vic.gov.au
ENGLISH TERM THREE
In Reading this term, we will be continuing to follow the InitiaLit English Program. Students will be introduced to the letters v, w, x, y and z, and what the vowels are. Middle vowel sounds in words will continue to be focused upon as well as oral blending and segmenting of words with four sounds. They will also learn all about digraphs and that two letters together can represent one sound - ck, ll, ss, ff, sh, qu, ee, zz and ch. Each week the students will also be involved in a variety of reading and writing activities through our literacy sessions, which will focus on the weekly letters, digraphs and tricky words from the program. The children will be learning new tricky words and will be eagerly adding them to our tricky word garden display. They will continue to focus on a variety of reading strategies such as making connections with texts, sequencing events, using their learnt skills to decode unknown words and making predictions.
In Writing, students will continue to strengthen their knowledge and ability to correctly form their letters and numerals using the correct starting point and size. They will further develop their skills of Recount writing by continuing their weekly writing and begin to more accurately include full stops and capital letters in their writing.
100 DAYS OF SCHOOL CELEBRATION
On Wednesday the Foundation students celebrated their much anticipated 100 Days of School! During the day they completed a variety of 100 themed activities with a focus on counting, skip counting and place value. The day was a huge success and the students had a fun day learning all about the number 100! The students were very excited to FINALLY celebrate their 100 days of learning!
The student’s dressed up in ‘100’ themed attire to help celebrate the day. We had many creative outfits including a variety of 100 year old’s that were even equipped with walking frames and walking sticks! There were also many 100 themed outfits that were very creative! They all looked AMAZING! It was the most fantastic day and the children had a wonderful time!
The Foundation students ended the day with a celebratory lunch!
Thank you for the wonderful effort everyone put in to make the whole day extremely successful!
FOUNDATION SPECIALIST TIMETABLE
As Specialists classes have begun we thought it would be useful for you to know which days these occur. When students are participating in Health and Physical Education (HPE) and Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) it would be best if they were wearing sneakers or shoes that they can move around in. Please note that this timetable can change! We will keep you updated if this occurs.
FA | FB | FC |
|---|---|---|
| Monday: Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) | Monday: Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) | Monday: Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) |
| Tuesday: Visual Arts (VA) and Health and Physical Education (HPE) | Tuesday: Auslan and Physical Education | Tuesday: Performing Arts and Physical Education (HPE) |
| Thursday: Auslan and Performing Arts | Thursday: Performing Arts and Visual Arts (VA) | Thursday: Visual Arts (VA) and Auslan |
We are looking forward to an exciting first term of learning! If you have any questions please contact us via email or in person.