Prep News
📅 Important Dates & Reminders
All important dates and events are available on our Compass Calendar. Please check the calendar regularly to stay up to date.
Upcoming Dates and Key Information
📚 Readers are swapped every Monday.
Tuesday 4th November - Melbourne Cup Public Holiday (no school)
Monday 10th November - Curriculum Day (student free)
Friday 28th November - P-2 House Athletics Day
Wednesday 3rd December - Market Day
Friday 5th December - Colour Run
Tuesday 9th December - Meet the Teacher (2026)
Wednesday 10th December - Christmas Concert
Friday 12th December - Meet the Teacher (2026)
Thursday 18th December - Last day of school for students
Friday 19th December - Curriculum Day
Last Term!
We had a busy end to Term 3! Here are some pictures from our excursion to Myuna Farm and our last day of school dress up for Footy Day.
📖 Literacy
In Word Work, we have been busy building our reading and writing skills. Students will practise reading and encoding words using all our alphabet sounds, as well as digraphs such as ai, ay, ee, ea, igh, oa, oe, ar, or, aw, er, ir, and ur.
In our Knowledge Rich lessons, we have been learning about kings and queens. Our focus has been on understanding their role, the royal family, and enjoying a range of historical royal stories such as ‘King Midas and the Golden Touch’, ‘The Princess and the Pea’, and ‘Cinderella’. Following this unit, we will move on to exploring a range of picture storybooks and developing our understanding of story structure. Finally, we will explore the Little People, Big Dreams series of books and learn about some great people in history and how they have changed the world.
In sentence-level writing, students are learning how to recognise complete sentences and fragments. This week, the Preps have discovered that every sentence needs a noun and a verb, and they have been working hard to spot them in example sentences.
➗ Maths
This week we have started our Data unit and learnt to sort, display, and discuss data. This Term, we will revisit our Location unit, counting and place value, and finish the year with Measurement, focusing on length, capacity, mass, and time.
Wellbeing
This term in Wellbeing, students will be learning about how to solve problems. They will explore the difference between big and small problems and share ideas on how they can work through and solve them.
The students have had a lot of fun exploring our new Curious Corner space.
October Birthdays
Meet the Teacher
Name: Mr. Lin
Things I like: I really enjoy playing basketball, going on trips to new places, and working with numbers.
In my free time, I like taking my kids to parks, where we can enjoy nature and have fun together.
Favourite Colour: Green
Favourite Foods: I love spicy food because it's so flavourful and gives a little kick!
Student Awards
We would like to congratulate the following award winners on their achievements!
Please note that you will be notified before your child receives their first award.
PA - Kayla D
PB - Hayden
PC - Grace
PS - Rayna
If you have any questions or would like to arrange a meeting with your child’s teacher, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via Compass at any point during the year.
Have a wonderful weekend,
The Prep Team
Mrs Sandeman, Miss Bouloukis, Miss Anson, Miss Sweetten