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.
Friday 31st October: Pyjama Day Dress Up
Tuesday 4th November: Melbourne Cup Public Holiday (Public Holiday)
Monday 10th November: Curriculum Day (Student free day)
Friday 21st November: Literacy UP Session 2-2:30pm
Friday 28th November: P-2 House Athletics Day
Friday 28th November: Numeracy UP Session 2-2:30pm
Wednesday 3rd December: Market Day
Friday 5th December: Colour Run
Tuesday 9th December: Statewide Transition Day (Meet the Teacher 2026)
Wednesday 10th December: Christmas Concert 5:30pm-6.30pm
Friday 12th December: Meet the Teacher 2:00pm (2026)
Wednesday 17th December: Class Parties
Thursday 18th December: Last day of school for students (1:30pm Dismissal)
Friday 19th December: Curriculum Day (Student free day)
📖 Literacy
In Knowledge Rich, we have continued exploring the fascinating world of kings and queens by reading and discussing some much loved stories. Our favourites have included Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Through these stories, we have been focusing on retelling and sequencing events, helping students understand how stories are structured from beginning to end.
In Sentence Level writing, we’ve been continuing our work on what makes a complete sentence. The children have enjoyed identifying and fixing sentence fragments, discussing whether a subject or verb is missing, and working together to turn fragments into full, meaningful sentences.
In Literacy, we have begun our new unit based on the picture book Giraffes Can’t Dance. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be looking closely at this text, exploring its structure, meaning, and vocabulary, and using it to inspire rich discussions and thoughtful responses.
Preview-Prep students will continue their Literacy unit of ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ and then move onto the story ‘The Gruffalo’. In Word Work we will be explicitly teaching and applying the digraphs ee and ea.
➗ Maths
This week, we completed our unit on Data — learning to both ask and answer yes/no questions confidently. We also revisited Location and positional language: using terms like on top, beside, next to, under, behind, and so on, to correctly describe where an object is placed.
Preview - Next fortnight we will revisit our Counting and Place value unit.
Wellbeing
Over the past fortnight, students have been learning about gender and identity. Students took part in a voting game where they shared their likes and dislikes. Through this activity, they learned that it’s okay to have different interests from their friends and that everyone is unique. Students also discussed how girls can be similar or different to one another, and how boys can also share similarities and differences. E.g ‘l like football’, ‘I like Minecraft’ and ‘I like pink’.
Preview -
Next fortnight, students will explore through games and discussions how anyone can choose to be whatever they want to be, while also practising how to be both strong and gentle.
October Birthdays
Meet the Teacher
Name: Mrs Dealy
Things I like: Spending time with family and friends, family holidays to Rye, playing netball and watching our daughters play sport.
In my spare time: I like to read and spend time outdoors with family and friends.
Favourite Color: Blue
Pets: We had a little Pomeranian dog, Russell and hope to get another dog in a year or so!
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 - Elias P & Tristian
PB - Emilia & Samiya
PC - Lenny & Stefan
PS - Oscar & Archie
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