Home and School Organisation
We are organised! We are ready!
Home and School Organisation
We are organised! We are ready!
Our You Can Do It program supports your child with developing their confidence, resilience, persistence, organisation and getting along skills. Starting school is a big transition, not only for your child but the whole family. Everything is new or different including, routines, friends and adults, five days of learning, managing belongings, regulating emotions. There can be a whole lot of navigating and negotiating for your child and this can be exhausting. You can support your child at home by establishing long term healthy habits like:
Home reading should be a fun and rewarding experience for all involved, so if it is becoming a battle or a source of frustration, take a break and try again later. It is fine to read a book with your child (eg. a page each) or to read to your child before they read the book to you. Aim for 15 mins at the most as children may lose concentration after that point and they have had a full day of learning school.
During Term one we encourage you to share a wide range of texts with your child. At the beginning of Term two your child will begin to borrow decodable reading books.
Later in the term your child will receive their first homework grid. The homework grid has been designed by considering the whole child. It will include many different activities which your child can complete. The purpose of the homework grid is for your child to develop successful learning habits like being organised and responsible, as well as sharing our school learning with you at home.
We have created some home learning packs in literacy that will help you support your child to work towards achieving their next steps. The packs are all based around areas of phonological awareness and phonics. Achievement of these skills are fundamental for children learning to read. These include:
The pack your child receives will be at the discretion of your child’s class teacher. This is informed by data the teacher has collected during progress monitoring. Your child’s teacher will borrow the pack out under your child’s name and it will be sent home in their book bag. This is an individualised process. We advise that you work through the pack over a 3 week period, spending around 10 minutes each session (as this is in addition to reading). Then return the pack to school.