Prep Report

Hello Prep families. What an incredible end of the year we have all had in both Prep A and Prep B this year. Everyone has made so much progress with all areas of their development and all of us teachers are very proud.

Social and Emotional (S.E.L.)

In S.E.L. this term, students:

• continued building resilience by identifying how situations could be worse
• sharing kind opinions about each other
• learnt how to solve social disputes with each other respectfully
• continued developing and using calming down strategies when things don't go their way.

Inquiry

In Inquiry this term, students:

• continued learning about the history of toys
• the similarities and differences between their own toys and their parents' toys
• learnt how to make a variety of culturally unique toys such as origami and juggling balls
• used craft and recycled resources to make their own creative toy
• played with a variety of olden day and modern toys.

Numeracy

In Numeracy this term, students:

• learnt about the measurement area of volume and how much water different containers can hold compared to other sized containers
• developed their knowledge of location language, such as below, above and behind
• made a lot of progress with their counting skills, such as counting past 20 and skip counting by 10s, 5s and 2s
• showed progress with their knowledge of the value of the digits in 2- and 3-digit numbers
• played a variety of math based paired games respectfully and cooperatively with their partner.

Literacy

Phonics

In Phonics this term, students:

• continued learning sounds of new letters of the alphabet
• started learning the sound of digraphs, e.g., th, ck and ch
• blending longer sounds together
• writing down dictated sentences
• reading and writing High Frequency Words (H.F.Ws.).

Writing

In Writing this term, students:

• continued writing recounts of their weekends and other special experiences
• developed their ability to include our three focused conventions of writing such as capital letters for the start of sentences and peoples' names, full stops at the end of sentences and finger spaces between words
• began learning about grammatical concepts such as nouns, verbs and adjectives and how to use them in spoken sentences
• learnt how to re write their favourite parts of read aloud narratives. 

Reading

In Reading this term, students:

• continued developing their fluency
• furthered their ability to decode words by using the sounding out strategy
• made connections and predictions before and during reading
• learnt about the setting, characters, beginning, middle and endings of narratives
• continued ordering words in sentences in the correct order
• developed their knowledge of letters of the alphabet and digraphs, and words that contain those letters and digraphs
• made crafts that begin with the focused letters of the alphabet and digraphs.

This year has been an amazing year in the Prep classroom, which is largely due to the family helpers. Thank you very much to all family members who have helped the Prep classrooms this year, especially during the special events such as swimming lessons to Splash, the excursion to the Melbourne Zoo, the Visual Arts and Performing Arts events and the big Prep Breakfast.

We hope you all have a great summer holidays and a fantastic start to 2026.

Thank you all.

Kind regards,

Emily Routley, Mark Turner, Serina Curini, Melissa Ozdemir, Rupinder Kang and Diana Polazzon.

First day of school in 2026: Wednesday the 28th of January.