Organisation
Specialist Timetable
This semester (Terms 3 & 4) all Foundation students will participate in the following specialist classes on Wednesdays:
Visual Arts, Physical Education (P.E.) and Information Communication Technology (I.C.T.).
Students are to wear their P.E. uniforms on Wednesdays and Fridays.
PMP
PMP lessons will continue this term and will occur fortnightly on Friday afternoons, alternating with assemblies. Students should wear their sports uniform every Friday so there is no confusion.
Homework
Both the green (homework) and the blue (communication) folders will still be in use this semester. We will be continuing to give students new readers on Mondays and collecting the readers on Fridays. Please record and sign off on your child’s nightly reading in their ‘Reading Record’ book so that the teachers can monitor their reading.
Speaking and Listening Experience
We will be commencing Speaking and Listening Experience (Show and Tell) in Week 2 (Monday 27th of July) this term. Students are invited to share certain objects for Speaking and Listening Experience on their M100W testing day. While we are remote learning this will happen at the 3pm Google Meet each day.
Below is the list of topics we ask students to focus on for Speaking and Listening Experience. They may show an item or prop to help them.
Students should try and speak about their topic for about a minute and at the end they will choose up to 2 friends from the audience to ask a question. Please discuss with your child what they are going to say about their Speaking and Listening Experience topic.
Week 2 | 27/7 - 31/7 | Introduce your family / Show a family photo |
Week 3 | 3/8 - 7/8 | Pictures of a favourite holiday |
Week 4 | 10/8 - 14/8 | Show your favourite teddy bear/toy |
Week 5 | 17/8 - 21/8 | Show your favourite story |
Week 6 | 24/8 - 28/8 | Show something that ‘God has Created’ |
Week 7 | 31/8 - 4/9 | What is your favourite game to play? |
Week 8 | 7/9 - 11/9 | Share with us your favourite Bible story |
Week 9 | 14/9 - 18/9 | What is your favourite animal? |
100 Days of School Celebration
Our 100 Days of School celebrations will take place on Wednesday 12th of August.
On this day, the students will have special activities to complete to celebrate their 100 Days of School.
We will be preparing a Show Bag for students that will include resources for activities and some special treats to acknowledge this special day. Each family will be required to pick up their child’s show bag on either Monday 10th August or Tuesday 11th August. This will be set up through the School Interview System and each family will be able to book a set time to come and collect their child/ren’s show bag. For bookings please click here for the link to School Interview and enter the booking code: gerc5
The children can make their 100 Days of School crown some time on the Tuesday so that they can wear it on the Wednesday.
Parents are asked to send us a short video (max 8 seconds) with their child saying ‘My favourite thing about school has been….’. We will make a Foundation video from these to share in our newsletter.