Foundation Unit

This fortnight, we began to explore a new multi-genre unit during Reading and Writing, based around Fairy Tales. We began the unit by reading a variety of interpretations of the text ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ or ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and discussed how popular texts can be modified in different ways to entertain the reader. In an introduction to persuasive writing, students in PBS were tasked with writing a letter to the Troll in the story, in an effort to persuade him to let them cross his bridge to the green meadow on the other side. In PLC, students needed to persuade the wolf to leave their newly built houses alone and not blow them down.

During our Maths lessons, the students were introduced to early division skills in the form of ‘sharing equally’. We have been practising sharing out maths manipulatives between two (and later three) groups and brainstormed what to do when there were objects left over. Students learnt that these left-over objects were called remainders. 

Foundation Teachers

Libby Cannon (PLC), Bree Smith (PBS)