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

K:6 God is with us

This unit introduces children to the three figures in the Old Testament; Moses, David and Jonah. The stories told in this unit highlight the love and faithfulness of God. God is with the weak and vulnerable, and even raises them to important places. God’s love and graciousness are for all people. It is universal.

K:8 Advent and Christmas 

This unit focuses on the seasons of Advent and Christmas. The concepts of waiting and joyful anticipation are explored through the use of the Advent Wreath and the story of John the Baptist. Advent is introduced as a time of preparation that points us toward Jesus. The Christmas story is told through the stories of the Annunciation, the birth of Jesus and the shepherds' visit. In engaging with the story, students are presented with the Good News that Jesus is the promised Saviour, the gift of God.

English

Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension:

The students will continue to develop their skills and strategies to read decodable texts. Students will develop the ability to monitor their comprehension by self correcting when making an error in phonic knowledge or re-reading to clarify their understanding. They will learn how to use known vocabulary to work out the meaning of unknown words in a text. Students will identify words that tell the reader who, what, when, where and why.  

Creating Written Texts:

This term, the students will understand and respond to quality literature. They will develop the ability to sequence their ideas when writing a text and include recognisable features of a text. They will focus on recording the initial, middle and final sounds of words as well as writing high frequency words. Students will continue to work on improving their work by applying teacher feedback. 

Spelling and Phonemic awareness:

The students will continue Phase 2 of the ‘Sound Waves Spelling’ Program. 

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 special ‘NEWS’ to the class weekly.

Mathematics

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

The topics taught in Term 3 are:

• Combining and Separating Quantities
• Geometric Measure (Length)
• Forming Groups
• 3D Spatial Structure (Volume)
• 2D Spatial Structure (2D Shapes)
• Nonspatial Measure (Time)
• Data

Science and Technology

This term in the ‘On the move’ unit, students will focus on the physical characteristics of objects and the effects of these on how they move. Children will investigate how push and pull forces create movement and introduce the fundamental concepts of force and motion. Students will engage in an incursion on Thursday, 2nd November to explore these concepts further. 

History

In Term 4 students will continue to develop skills of historical inquiry and communication, when researching their own history and that of their family. The children will share family celebrations and learn about special community events.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

Students will engage in physical activity while developing their gross motor and fundamental movement skills. Gross motor skills refer to the movements of the body's large muscles. This term, in Week 6, Kindergarten students will participate in an intensive Water Safety and Swimming program at Caringbah Leisure Centre. The swimming program is part of the school curriculum and is compulsory for all children. The intensive program will run for 5 days. Each lesson is 30 minutes (Yrs K & 1). 

Students will participate in Peer Support. In Peer Support, students will delve into a module called "Promoting Harmony." Aligned with our school's core values, this module will empower students to actively and critically construct shared values linked with our Mercy Values. Students will continue to participate in their final ‘Open Parachute’ unit. They will learn about overcoming their worries and being brave. 

Creative Arts

In Visual Arts, students will continue to use a variety of media to create artwork including oil pastels, paint, watercolour and collage. They will create artworks based on the literature we are studying. Students will create Religious artworks to reflect the Scripture passages and collages to create their own Advent wreaths. They will also create Christmas craft.  

In Drama, students will be developing their skills in mime and movement by reenacting scenes from “Boy” written by Phil Cummings. Students will create characters, create still images and use movement to create dramatic performances.

In Music, students will explore music from Germany, Russia, the Czech Republic and North America. They will perform music and organise sounds into basic structures. Students will engage in music through the use of known songs, rhymes, and accompaniments as well as other musical repertoire presented to them.

Mandarin

Our students continue to enjoy participating in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions with educators in China.

Homework 

Kindergarten will begin Homework in Week 2. Homework will consist of daily reading, sight words and counting work. Further information will be sent home at the beginning of Week 2.

We look forward to working 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 or by appointment at the office. 

Miss Melissa Flynn and Miss Holly Pooley (KBlue)

Miss Hayley Wilson (KGold)

Mrs Tracey Carnegie and Mrs Danielle Suttor (KWhite)

Important Dates for Year Kindergarten

Sport Days for Kindergarten are as follows:

KBlue - Wednesday and Thursday

KGold - Wednesday  and Thursday

KWhite - Wednesday  and Thursday

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 each Wednesday.  

KBlue - Wednesday

KGold - Wednesday

KWhite - Wednesday

Science Incursion - Thursday 2nd November (Week 4) 

Christmas Concert - Wednesday 29th November (Week 8) 5:30 - 7:00 pm

2023 School Term 4

10th October - 15 December 2023

 Parent calendar available at this link