Prep Team News

Hello Prep families,

What a fabulous fortnight in Prep we have had! We absolutely loved celebrating the 100 days of school on Friday 1st August.  Then, the students enjoyed getting dramatic and immersing themselves in our Tiddalick the Frog incursion and our Book Week incursion. We cannot wait to see the wonderful Book Week costumes on display at the parade tomorrow (Friday 15th of August). 

Our Willy Kid theme this fortnight is ‘Willy Kids are Brave’. We read ‘Jetty Jumping’ by Andrea Rowe and shared stories of moments when we have felt scared. We then discussed strategies that helped us to be brave such as asking for help, trying again and receiving encouragement from others.

100 Days of Prep 

We celebrated the 100th day of Prep on Friday 1st August. It was wonderful to see the creative costumes that students chose to wear including lots of 100-year-old people, 100 items sewn on shirts and some great party clothes. We especially loved how creative some students got, including dressing as ‘smarty pants’, being a roman numeral and wearing a cape of $100 notes! We celebrated the day with lots of fun activities including a parade, making fairy bread, and counting tubs of objects to work out which had 100 items in it. We are so proud of our Preps and the wonderful achievements that they have made after just 100 days at school. Congratulations to our students and their families on a great achievement. We cannot wait to see what the next 100 days bring! 

Prep Storytelling Incursion

This term, the Preps have been learning about the different ways we can tell stories, including written word, pictures, song and dance. For our incursion, we explored telling stories through acting. Students were able to work together, dress up and act out the dreamtime story, Tiddalick the Frog. What a wonderful experience it was! 

Book Week Celebrations 

This week, we had Perform Education visit Willy Primary to perform a show based on some of the shortlisted books from the Children’s Book Council Awards. The Preps were very excited as we have been reading many of these books each week as part of our library sessions. We are now looking forward to continuing the celebrations with our dress-up day and parade tomorrow. We cannot wait to see all of the book character costumes! 

Hats From Monday 18th August 

As of Monday the 18th of August, we are asking that all students wear their hats during outside play times. This is in line with the schools revised SunSmart Policy which has been changed to align with the Department of Education’s updated guidelines. We appreciate your support in sending your child to school with their school hat from Monday the 18th of August. 

Inquiry: What’s My Story? What’s your story?

As part of our inquiry unit this term, the Preps are looking at the different ways stories can be told. This week, we read ‘Letters to Felix’ and discussed how we can communicate and tell stories by writing letters. The Preps have been working hard to write a letter to their families about their day at school. Shortly we will be walking to our local letterbox to post the letters home to families. Keep an eye out for a letter delivery arriving in the next couple of weeks!! 

Term Three Specialists

This Term, all Preps will attend Specialist classes. These include Visual Art, Music, French  and Physical Education. Please see the weekly timetable below.

Parents, could you please support your child to return their library books on their given day. Please also ensure your child is dressed in their P.E. uniform and is wearing runners on the day that they have P.E. Students remain in their P.E. uniform for the entire day. 

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 3 - 4

Reading - Students will continue learning about appropriate reading behaviours, including pointing to the words as we read and taking a breath at full stops. They will also discuss text features such as full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks and question marks. As part of our Little Learner’s program, students are now beginning to explore digraphs. Our current focus is on CCVC and CVCC words.

Writing - Students are continuing to develop their letter formation and sound knowledge to write sentences. In particular this term, students will be reading narrative texts as a class. Students will then summarise these stories by writing a few sentences about the characters, setting, problem and solution from each text. 

Numeracy - Students are exploring the concepts of money and time. For our money topic, we are learning about each of the different Australia notes and coins, and their values. Our time topic is revising days of the week, along with exploring time to the hour. 

Inquiry - This term, our inquiry topic is What's My Story? What's Your Story'. The Prep students are learning about the different ways stories can be told and beginning to write some special letters home. 

Homework - Each Monday, students will be given an activity to complete at home that relates to our weekly sound or maths focus. The activity in their ‘Home Learning Book’ will be collected each Friday. Homework in Prep should take no longer than 15 minutes.  

Respectful Relationships - This term, our Respectful Relationships topic is positive coping. Through this unit, we will explore a range of different emotions. Students will discuss and further develop their self-regulation skills, and explore the different ways they can navigate strong emotions. 

Prep: Key Dates Term Three

Have a lovely weekend. 

Warm regards,

The Prep Team–Caitlin Sullivan (Prep S), & Georgia Grainger (Prep G)