Prep News

Swimming

Swimming starts on MONDAY! To prepare for swimming, please make sure every piece of clothing is named especially uniforms and underwear and that children can quickly dress themselves with little to no help.

Your child will need (all named):

-towel

-bathers on under school uniform to begin the school day

-underwear in swimming bag

-thongs or sandals for when we are at the pool (they still need to wear their normal school shoes to school). These thongs/sandals will stay at school for the whole week

-additional plastic bag for wet bathers

-goggles ONLY if your child needs them. 

If your child has hair that is long enough to be tied up, please make sure that it is tied securely enough to last the entire swimming session. We have to get changed very quickly after swimming and have very little time to be redoing hair. 

Swimming week is a big week for our Preps. If you can, it may be a great idea to pack an extra snack or two so your children can have an extra snack in the afternoon. 

Can you please ensure your child wears their bathers under their school clothes to school, and has dry underwear in their swimming bag.

Library

Library books will no longer be borrowed to take home. Starting this week, we are able to borrow new books, but these will be kept at school. If you have any overdue books at home, please send these back ASAP.

Take Home Readers 

Please start your hunt for any Little Learners Love Literacy books that you may have hiding at home. We have lots of books missing at the moment and are starting our stocktake. 

Upcoming Dates

Swimming- Monday 1st to Friday 5th December

Step Up Day- Tuesday 9th of December

Junior Athletics- Monday 15th December

End of term 4, early dismissal 1.15pm- Friday 19th, December

Upcoming Learning: Term 4 

Literacy

During week 9, we will begin learning about long vowel sound in Stage 7.2, 'er'. Our book of the week is 'Superworm'. In week 10, we will revise the sounds we have learnt. Our book of the week is 'The Smeds and the Smoos'. 

We will focus on revising all of the Heart Words we have learnt this year. 

Mathematics

In week 9, we will start looking at time and seasons. In week 10, and revise length, mass and capacity. 

Topic 

In week 9 and 10, we will continue our learning on 'Our Sustainable world- farm to table'. 

In Respectful Relationships, we will continue our unit on Positive Gender Relations. 

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to Prep Floyd for winning this fortnight's Maths Challenge!

Please find our final Maths Challenge of 2025 below: