Prep News

Key Dates 

Ecolinc Excursion:Tuesday 6th October (second day of Term 4)- please provide consent on Compass. Early school arrival- 7.45am. 

Monash Teddy Bear Hospital Incursion: Monday 12th October, 11.30am-1.30pm. 

Fire Safety Incurson: Visit 1- Wednesday 14th October, 2.15pm. Vist 2- Thursday 22nd October, 2.15pm.

Be Awesome Day:  Friday 30th October

Spring Gully Vet visit: Friday 13th November 

Pevan and Sarah Excursion: Tuesday 17th November 

Important Information 

Thank you

Dear Prep Families,

Thank you for a wonderful Term 3! We are so proud of all the learning, growth and progress the children have made this term. Thank you for your continued support, encouragement and partnership throughout the term. It makes such a difference and we really appreciate everything you do to support your child’s learning. We hope you all have a wonderful break, filled with lots of fun, family time and plenty of rest! Enjoy the holidays and we look forward to seeing everyone back, refreshed and ready for another exciting term of learning in Term 4!

Ecolinc Excursion: 

We'd like to provide you with some details for our upcoming excursion to Ecolinc, Tuesday 6th October. 

Prep children are required at school earlier than normal. We ask that all Prep students are dropped off as normal to line up at their classrooms at 7:40am. This is the time and place for you to say your goodbyes. We will be getting on the bus at 7:50am.If you are feeling anxious about your child's first excursion please hide this as best you can with a big smile, as a worried face can unsettle or trigger worries for your child. 

The bus will leave school at 8:00am sharp. We will return at approx. 4:00pm. A message will be sent via Compass when we depart Ecolinc to confirm an estimated arrival time back at school.

Please only pack the following (labelled) in your child's school backpack:

- lunchbox with snack and lunch

- water bottle

All children must wear school uniform. 

Individual medications and first aid is packed and supplied from the office at school. Please let your child’s teacher know if your child gets bus/car sickness or has been car sick in the past. 

Be Awesome Day:

Friday 30th October will be our annual ‘Be Awesome Day’! This year, our awesome kids will be running a ‘Show Day’ as part of our celebrations and we welcome you to join in the fun!

In order for our day to be very awesome and super fun, we will need lots of help from our wonderful parent community.

The Preps are running three stalls: Guess the jelly beans, lucky sticks and face painting. 

We require the following donations please:

• Jelly Beans
• Glass Jars with lids 
• Individually wrapped chocolates 
• Blocks of chocolate
• Individually wrapped lollies

Early next term we will ask for parent volunteers, please keep an eye out. 

What we've been up to in Prep!

Upcoming Learning

Literacy 

In the first two weeks of Term 4, we will be reading 'Where the Wild Things Are', 'Let's explore the moon', 'The Snail and the Whale' and 'Let's explore the stars'. We will be continue learning the stage 6 sounds, focusing on 'ph' and 'wh'. We will be learning the heart words 'where' and 'what'. 

Mathematics

In weeks 5 and 6 we will revise our learning of numbers through addition and money. In particular we will look at couting on, friends of 10 and fact families. We will also start learning subtraction. 

Topic 

In Topic, we will learn about people in our communiter who help us, such as: Posties, Paramedics, Doctors/Nurse, SES and Firefighters. 

In Respectful Relationships we will continue looking at Gender norms and stereotypes – 'Everyone can be strong and gentle' and 'fair and friendly play'. 

Maths Challenge!

Well done to our Term 3 Week 8 Maths Challenge winners - 3/5 Patrao-Hurley! Please find the new Maths Challenge below!