Kinder/Year 1

Well done Kindergarten 2025. You have survived an action-packed first term of learning, readily embracing all of our Baseline Behaviours and experiencing academic success as your reward. 

During English, these eager learners have been exposed to all 44 sounds of the English language and are writing all 24 letters of the alphabet with (mainly) correct formation. They are blending many of these sounds to begin to read and write. They know that to be successful when writing, they need a capital letter to start, they must leave spaces between their words, use our tricky heart words, have ending punctuation (including full stops and exclamation marks!) and that their writing must make sense. How amazing are your children? 

Even though our whole staff are invested in your children’s success, it is still mind-blowing to us every year that children can learn so much in such a short period, and this is just one Key Learning Area!

Kinder students, enjoy your two-week break from school. Maximise your family time by playing games, helping with chores, practising writing the alphabet, and reviewing your sound books. Term two is going to be even bigger and better!

ENE-PHOKW-01: Uses single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences and common digraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts.

Meanwhile over the Year 1 side of the room, we have been reading folk tales and expanding sentences using but, so and because. We have also added more details to our sentences using adjectives, "when" words and "where" words. These additions to our writing have helped us create our very first stories (narratives). These were based on an aboriginal dreaming story.See the photos of examples. We are very proud of ourselves!

EN1-CWT-01: A student plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure.

Lastly, we want to congratulate Mr Malcolm for completing his internship with us. He is now officially on his green "P's", We are grateful for all the fun learning experiences we enjoyed with him and look forward to seeing him again.

Happy Easter to all our K1 students, and enjoy a well-earned rest.