Foundation Update

Date: 15th – 26th November

This fortnight we will be focusing on the following Learning areas/strategies:

SEL:

Topic 1: Using manners.

Topic 2: Understanding cyber bullying and how to be safe online.

Reading:

CAFÉ: Comprehension- Compare and contrast within and between texts.

Writing:

Handwriting and letter formation.

Weekend writing.

Narrative writing.

Numeracy:

Major:

Chance: Identify outcomes of familiar events including change and describe them using everyday languages such as “will happen” “won’t happen” or “might happen”.

Minor:

Estimation: Compare the lengths of objects using uniform/ informal units.

Inquiry:

Our Local Community.

WALT: Understand the role of the fire brigade in our community

Activities:

Explore what to do in a fire. EG: stop, drop roll.

WALT: Stay safe around unknown dogs in the community

WILF:

Activities:

Asking before patting unknown dogs
Recognising safe and unsafe dogs. EG: on a leash, muzzled.

Other reminders and notices for our Year Level:

Please bring in a block of chocolate to donate for the year 6 fete.
Library borrowing has commenced again – please ensure that your child has their library book and library bag on their classes library day. Please note that your child will not be able to borrow a library book if they have not returned their library book from the week before.
Students must bring their blue book bag to school each day and change over their reader.
Students must read their reader with an adult each night and record their reading in their yellow reader log.
When you are aware that your child will be absent from school prior to the day or on the morning of absence please log it on Sentral.
Please ensure that your child is wearing full Jells Park Primary School uniform each day. All socks and hair accessories must be in the school colours, red, navy blue and white.
Please ensure that your child has a change of underwear and clothes in their school bag at all times.
Asthma medication must always be in your child’s schoolbag if they need it.
Please do not send your child to school if they are feeling unwell and are displaying flu-like symptoms.
Please do not send your child to school if they have a sore stomach. There also must be a period of 24 hours before your child can come back to school if they have vomited.

Kind regards,

The Foundation Team

Level 1 Update

Level 1 students have had lots of fun learning about money in a hands-on way! We have learnt that there are lots of different ways we can make $1, used money stamps to ‘pay’ for shopping items and played lots of money games. We have also learnt how to write our own information text and made Koi Wind socks whilst learning about the wind. We are very excited about our upcoming excursion and all of the other events that will keep us very busy for the last weeks of Term.

Level 1 Fortnightly Focus:

Reading:	Comprehension- infer and support with evidence
Writing:	Information Texts Recount of Excursion
Numeracy:	Money Difference (subtraction) Addition Capacity
SEL:	Gender Stereotypes Learning from mistakes
Inquiry:	Weather and the Seasons – Wind Sustainability – saving water
Notes for Parents:	Excursion to Click and Climb Tues 16th. Students to wear full uniform, shoes suitable for climbing, and bring a small backpack with drink bottle, snack and lunch inside. Please do not send your child to school if they are feeling unwell and are displaying flu-like symptoms.

Level 3 Update

Students in Level 3 had an absolutely amazing time visiting Team Kids on Wednesday. There was a huge selection of fun, engaging activities to facilitate social interaction among all. This was also a perfect opportunity to model lots of behaviours on our School Wide Positive Behaviour Matrix. We can’t wait to visit again!!

Level 4 Update

The students all returned to full-time schooling after a long weekend last week. It was great to get back to some normality, after such a long time.

This week in Numeracy we are focusing on developing our strategies to complete multiplication equations and worded problems. We have been engaging in a variety of open-ended, hands-on learning tasks. Students have also enjoyed participating in a lesson sequence linked to basketball.

We continue to write explanation texts and look at Dreamtime stories in literacy.

Students and teachers are excited to get out into the community for our 2 “camp replacement” excursions which are planned for the first weeks of December.

4H Assembly

Success Stories

Student Awards Weeks 5 & 6