Prep Team News

Hello Prep families,

We cannot believe it is the end of Term Three! What a busy and fun-filled term we have had. It has been another great fortnight with our Prep breakfast and Footy Day coming up on Friday. Thank you for all your support this term with our learning program and special days. The Preps have come so far with their learning this year already. Please keep up all the great reading over the holidays, both with our provided readers and books from the library. 

Our Willy Kid theme this fortnight is ‘Willy Kids are Positive’. We read ‘All You Can Be’ by Angela Casabene. We discussed how being positive and trying new things allows us to grow. We shared examples of when we have used a positive mindset to achieve a new goal.

Father’s Day/Special Persons Afternoon

It was such a joy to welcome the special people in our lives into our classroom on Friday the 4th of September. We loved seeing everyone getting their creative juices flowing while drawing portraits of each other. Congratulations to all our special people for showing a growth mindset and trying their best! 

Walk to the Postbox 

You may have noticed a very special delivery in your mailbox! We hope you enjoyed getting a little sneak peak into our school day through the letters. We are really proud of how far our Preps writing has come and would encourage you to continue to practise some letter writing over the holidays.

Prep Breakfast

On Wednesday the Prep students arrived at school in their pyjamas and enjoyed a breakfast of cereal, toast and juice. We had been busy throughout the week making placemats and choosing the foods we would eat on the day. The Preps demonstrated their independence by helping to prepare their breakfast, along with washing their dishes at the end of the meal and changing into their school clothes. What a great way to end the term! 

Timetable Changes for Term Four 

Please note that there are some changes to the timetable for next term. The students are very excited to have Kitchen Garden in Weeks 2-5.

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 9 - 10

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 the /th/ and /ng/ sounds.

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 measurement including mass, length and capacity. Students are ordering items based on their mass, length and capacity. We are also applying our knowledge and skills to problem solving activities. 

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.

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 for Respectful Relationships our topic is ‘Gender Norms and Stereotypes’. We will be reflecting on the influence of gender norms and stereotypes, developing an awareness of positive and negative gender norms, challenging negative gender norms and developing appreciation and respect for differences. In Prep, these activities look like: conversations about the fact that everyone likes different things and that’s okay (e.g. everyone can like or dislike pink or soccer or fish), realising that everyone experiences the same emotions (e.g. happy, sad, angry) and can express them in similar ways.

Wishing you all a safe and restful holiday. 

Warm regards,

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