Foundation - Level 1

Staff: Nikki Lewis, Bec Mealings, Courtney Williams & Damon Webb

Foundation Newsletter Week 7 & 8

Monday 22nd August – Friday 2nd September

Dear Parents,

We have had a lot of fun & learning over the past 2 weeks. Book Week Parade, Incursions and beginning to design our toy! Check out some of the photos at the end of our newsletter! We would like to pass on a big THANK YOU to Mic Lowne for coming into the classrooms and letting our students use their creative minds to build cars out of Lego. It was so much fun!!

UPCOMING EVENTS FOR YOUR DIARY

Monday 5th September – Friday 9th September: Child Safety Week

Wednesday 7th September – VPS Fundraiser for Endangered Animals

Monday 12th September – Friday 16th September – Parent Teacher Interviews

Friday 16th September – Footy Finals Fever Day

CHILD SAFETY WEEK – MONDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER – FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER (WEEK 9)

Next week is Child Safety Week. Throughout the week, we will be having discussions and completing activities to promote and educate our students about personal safety and awareness by empowering them to RECOGNISE, REACT and REPORT.

In Foundation, we will be focusing on:

Recognising safe and unsafe situations.
React to unsafe situations.
Recognising how to be safe around water.
Recognising ways to be cyber safe.

On Tuesday 6th September, students can come to school dressed in bright colour clothes so they can be easily seen and stay safe. No donation is required for this day.

‘LAY IT ON THE LINE FOR ENDANGERED ANIMALS’ FUNDRAISER – WEDNESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER

As a school, we were asked to consider a charity to raise money for this term. After a school survey, we will be raising money for Endangered Animals! On Wednesday 7th September, students can come dressed in their HOUSE colours and are asked to bring in a gold coin donation.

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS – MONDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER – FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER

In Week 10, we will be conducting Parent Teacher Interviews. Thank you to those who have booked a time with their child’s teacher. This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your child’s academic progress and share some of the amazing work they have been doing in the classroom.

To book an interview time, please refer to the email sent to you in week 7 from our principals (the interview runs for no more than 15 minutes). Please make sure that select a time to see your child’s teacher, not request a time as this does not lock that time for you. Sentral will be closing soon.

FOOTY FINALS DAY – FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER

To celebrate the beginning of the AFL Football finals, on the last day of Term, students can come dressed in their favourite football team colours!

PERSONAL TOYS AT SCHOOL

In the past couple of weeks, we have noticed more and more toys coming into school on days outside of your child’s scheduled Show & Tell day. We have loved exploring toys in the classroom and talking about them, however unfortunately there have been instances of toys going missing and students touching other people’s toys. We STRONGLY advise that students not bring toys to school, including the Coles Harry Potter toys, unless it is for their Show & Tell. We have plenty of classroom toys for the students to play with during Golden Time.

Art Smocks coming home on Tuesday afternoons

We are continuing our interest groups, where we go to different classrooms and do various activities. In one of the weeks coming up, your child’s class will be doing messy play. Art smocks will be worn and will get quite dirty, so if your child brings their Art Smock home on a Tuesday afternoon, could you please wash it before they have Art on Thursday/Friday.

COVID AND COLD SYMPTOMS

It is very important that your child is healthy when they come to school. Please watch out for any COVID and cold symptoms as we are beginning to see children who have runny noses and coughs come to school and spread their illness to others. We are finding that for every child who returns to school too early, more cases start to appear and other children are then away from school for a week or more. We want to reduce the absences in the classroom and give each child the best chance to learn.

Even if your child tests negative for COVID, they still must stay home if they are sick with cold or flu symptoms. Please note that we may have to call you to pick them up if they show any COVID or cold symptoms.

If your child is a household contact, please follow these steps:

Inform the school that they are a household contact.
We suggest that they where a mask in the classroom.
Test at home using a Rapid Antigen Test, and return negative results 5 times over the 7 day isolation period.

WEEK 9 & 10 LEARNING

ENGLISH

We will be reading and writing about safe/unsafe situations, writing about how we built our toys and continue to revise and learn new sounds.

MATHS