KINDERGARTEN

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

Scripture and Jesus - Jesus’ Holy Family 

This unit explores how the Bible is our Sacred Scripture that communicates the story of the People of God and their journey of faith. Students explore how families can build their relationship with God and how we become members of God’s family. They also explore God’s relationship with his people through the story of Abraham and Sarah and Jesus’ Holy Family.

Prayer, Liturgy and Sacraments- The Church

This unit introduces the students to the Church as the community of believers who gather to pray and celebrate. The unit allows students to explore the church as a building, where some things are always the same. Students will also be introduced to the sacred texts, liturgical vessels, furniture and gestures, and how they are used during the celebration of Mass. Students will explore how Jesus is present in the priest, who leads the celebration of the Mass and with the community gathered. Students will then identify how Jesus speaks to us when listening to Sacred Scripture and explore Jesus’ real presence in the Eucharist.

English

Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension: 

The children will continue to develop their fluency skills and strategies to read and comprehend decodable texts. Students will develop the ability to stop at the end of a sentence in response to a full stop and regulate their voice to respond to punctuation such as exclamation marks and question marks. Students will recall and recount events or characters from a text to express their understanding of the book and expand their vocabulary by clarifying unknown words. 

Creating Written Texts: 

This term, the children will understand and respond to quality literature. The texts chosen for Term Three will focus on learning about context, perspective and the purpose and structure of a narrative. Students will respond to this literature by constructing simple and compound sentences. They will use their knowledge of letters, sounds and tricky words to express their ideas in writing. Students will focus on recording the initial, middle and final sounds of words phonetically with close approximations. The children will re-read their own writing and demonstrate an awareness of nouns, adjectives, conjunctions and pronouns. 

Spelling and Phonemic Awareness: 

Our ‘Decodable Readers Australia Program’ will continue this term. Decodable Readers Australia is a program designed to develop reading and spelling skills through phonological awareness and phonic knowledge. This is a knowledge and understanding of the correspondence between sounds and letters to read and write words. This term, the students will continue to develop their phonics knowledge by learning digraphs (two letters that make one sound). This will further support their reading fluency and spelling skills. Students will practise segmenting and blending these sounds to read and write words, as well as build confidence when reading sentences and decodable books. You can support your child’s progress throughout this phase by listening to them read their decodable readers nightly and continuing to model reading to them.

Oral Language and Communication: 

Students learn to listen for understanding, contribute to social and learning interactions, use correct tense when speaking and retell details of a story or event. Oral Language and Communication tasks are necessary for students to become successful readers and writers. The children will continue to present their own ‘NEWS’ to the class weekly.

Mathematics

The students will be explicitly taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus with a focus on using mathematical language, reasoning and understanding. Activities are differentiated to cater for differing student needs and abilities. 

In Term 3, the students will be learning about:

• Representing Whole Number ~ making connections between numerals, counting and corresponding quantities. This will consolidate number concepts 0-20.
• Combining and Separating Quantities ~ copying, continuing and creating patterns, combining quantities to make ten, investigating, forming and recording equal groups by sharing
• Non-Spatial structure: Mass ~ using mathematical language to describe and compare masses
• 3D Spatial Structure: Volume ~ Comparing volumes by building, filling and packing containers
• Geometric Measure: Length ~ Creating half a length
• Forming Groups ~  Investigating, forming and recording equal groups by sharing
• Non Spatial Structure: Time ~ telling the time on the hour on analog and digital clocks

Science and Technology

In this Earth and Space strand unit, the students will make observations and investigate how daily and seasonal changes affect us. They will look at how people, animals and plants change depending on the time of day and/or the seasons. The students make observations and record daily weather patterns over a month. Incorporating design and technology skills, students investigate what materials provide shelter and protection from changing weather. 

History

What is my History and how do I know it?

Students investigate the concept of a family. They learn to identify different members of a family and how they are connected. They identify the people in their immediate family and investigate the country of origin of their family.

What stories do other people tell of the Past?

Students develop an understanding that stories of the past can be communicated through oral histories, photographs, books and digital media. We will need some input from families for this unit, including why they were given their name? What is the meaning of their name? We will also be asking for a baby photo of themselves, a special item from their past, a favourite toy they had as a baby and as a three-year-old and a special family object. 

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

This term, students will develop their fundamental movement skills through engaging in ball games and gymnastics activities. Students will refine their coordination, teamwork, and spatial awareness in basketball, soccer, and hockey, with a focus on passing, dribbling, and striking. Gymnastics lessons will build flexibility, balance, and body control through rolls, jumps, and basic routines. With an emphasis on cooperation and personal growth, this unit encourages students to explore movement creatively while fostering confidence, persistence, and enjoyment in physical activity.

Additionally, students will learn about road safety, covering essential topics such as safe practices when walking, riding as a passenger, and responsible use of roads.

This term, the students will look at ways they can appreciate and care for their body. They will learn about important body organs, healthy eating choices, the importance of movement and sleep and personal safety. They will also continue to participate in the ‘Open Parachute’ program with a focus on developing a positive growth mindset. 

Creative Arts

In Music with Mr Parlato, students will perform music, organise sounds into basic structures and listen to music, guided by the teacher’s instruction. Students will engage in music through the use of known songs, rhymes, accompaniments as well as other musical repertoire presented to them.

In Visual Arts, the students will use a variety of media to create artworks including oil pastels, paint, watercolour and collage. Students will create artworks that connect to their learning in English and Science. The children will also reflect on and appreciate the works of other artists. The students will create artworks based on a shortlisted CBCA picture book and their final products will be displayed in the Library for Book Week. 

Homework 

Kindergarten will begin Homework in Week 2. Homework will consist of daily reading, tricky words and counting work. 

We look forward to continuing to work with you and your child this term. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via a note, email or by appointment through the school office. 

Miss Mikayla Giovenco (KBlue)

Miss Hayley Wilson (KGold)

Mrs Danielle Suttor and Ms Liz O'Brien (KWhite)

Important Dates for Kindergarten

Sport 

Sport days for Kindergarten are as follows:

KBlue - Wednesday and Friday 

KGold - Wednesday and Friday 

KWhite - Wednesday and Friday 

Students are to wear their sports uniform on these days. 

Library 

Each week, students will have the opportunity to borrow books from our school library. Please ensure your child brings their Library Bag to school.  

KBlue - Wednesday 

KGold -  Wednesday 

KWhite - Wednesday 

2025 - School Term 3

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