Prep - 2 Sector

AP News

Dear parents and guardians,

I hope this message finds you well. The students have settled into the year very well. Teachers have been busy getting to know students both personally and academically throughout the first part of the term. This involves a detailed handover from the students 2018 teachers, our Start Up program that focuses on student’s transition into their new classroom and any relevant assessments. We really value this time of the year to get to know the strengths and passions of all our students.

Our recent Sector Assemblies were a massive hit. Thanks to all our community that attended the events. The students who presented did a fantastic job and although were very nervous beforehand they were all excited and happy to have been able to share. Sector Assemblies will continue to run during week 5 of each term and we look forward to being able to share our learning with you all at those event.

Recently each class from Year 3-6 has selected a Junior School Council Representative. The students will work with school leadership to plan major events, tackle issues they identify in the school grounds and celebrate student success. They are a very passionate bunch and it will be great to see what they achieve alongside all our students.

Thank you to all the Year 6 students who have nominated themselves to be the Year 3-6 Sector Leader. The applications have now been shortlisted and several of these students will be interviewed for the position. I hope to be able to announce the Sector Leader by the end of the week.

Have fun,

Mr Bright

Prep News

Dear Parents,

Congratulations to the Preps who have successfully settled into their first full week of school.

Over the past few weeks we have been learning one letter per week as part of our InitiaLit Program. We encourage you to try some of our fun activities at home with your child or create some activities of your own. Each week an activity will be posted on compass for you to try at home with the letter of the week. The letters we have looked at so far are, ‘m’ and‘s’, with this week’s focus being the letter ‘t’.

This week’s activity:

Collecting/drawing pictures and beginning sound labelling

Provide pictures for children to glue onto a page and then label with letter ‘m’, ‘s’, and ‘t’ (beginning sound). Alternatively, children can draw their own pictures starting with letters ‘m’,‘s’, and ‘t’ and write the letter under each picture.

We also encourage parents to speak to their children about the importance of not sharing food or canteen money. Due to students having allergies it is really important that students are not sharing food. We are teaching students that we do not share money at school and that the money our parents give us is for us only.

We have been engaging in Play Based Learning this term and learning about ‘Identity’; our personal traits and strengths of ours within the classroom. We would love for parents to bring in donations of dolls of all shapes and sizes and costumes. Talk to your child’s classroom teacher if you have any other toys you think may be suitable to donate.

Prep Team

Year 1 News

Play based learning

The Year 1 students started play based learning through our health unit. The students have thoroughly enjoyed doing the various activities and through these activities are developing personal and social skills. The focus for this term is ‘My family’. Students will be able to identify the responsibilities each member has in their family, different activities and celebrations families celebrate.

The play-based activities are going to be based under the following types of play:

Imaginative/Socio-Dramatic Play

Representing their own ideas through acting out, imagining and representing.

Constructive and Investigative Play

Require hands-on, concrete materials to construct, design and create.

Directed and Scaffolded Play

A particular skill or exploration is undertaken which is encouraged or prompted in the investigation by the teacher.

Explorative

Investigating the properties of things; finding out, exploring, trying things out eg water, sand, magnifying glasses.

Sensory

Experiences through water, clay, finger paint, scent and touch.

From the Year 1 Team

Year 2 News

Play Based Learning

For the past few weeks we have been engaging in something new and exciting called Play Based Learning. It has been really fun learning all about ‘community’ and what that looks like within our classroom. We are looking forward to continuing our learning through this fun play. Look how much fun we are having!

Year 2 Team