Foundation News
Welcome to Foundation!
A big welcome to all of our Foundation students and families. It has been a busy first week at school, we have been learning lots of new routines, new teachers and meeting lots off new friends.
Our Foundation students have been flying high already in the way they have settled into life at school. It was great to see the resilience that each of them demonstrated when saying goodbye to mums/dads/carers on their very first day at school.
We are looking forward to having lots of adventures this year in Foundation.
PBS
This week we have been learning about how we show respect, resilience and excellence at school. Foundation have been receiving lots of feathers throughout the week because of the way they have shown our school values. One day this week we managed to make 6 WINGS!! It was very exciting.
We have learnt about what happens when our feathers turn into wings and our wings turn into birds. We are working hard to try and beat our goal of 6 over the next couple of weeks.
Parent Challenge: Test your child's memory by asking what they received feathers for at school during the day (they should be able to tell you).
Foundation Timetable
MONDAY:
11.40 - 12.40: PE
2.30 - 3.30: Library/News
TUESDAY:
10 - 11: Science
12.50 - 1.50: Art
2.30 - 3.30: Global Studies
FRIDAY (Alternating weeks)
Buddies/ PMP: 12.50 - 1.50
Take Home Books & Magic Words
Reading:
Each day your child will take home a ‘take home book’ that they will have chosen to share with someone at home. Your child can be read to or you can read with your child. Eventually your child will read his/her book independently. They might make up the story or predict what is going on. During this time you can discuss the following:
- what the book was about,
- point out a favourite part,
- discuss the parts of the book,
- are there any characters and
- where the story takes place.
Magic Words:
We encourage you to put these somewhere visible (on the fridge, noticeboard etc.) and refer to them regularly, it will help your student recognise them. They are not to be “sounded out” as this is not a strategy that will help with these words (or with many words, for that matter!) Look at the first sound (we call sounds phonemes), perhaps another prominent sound in the word, write them out, play ‘Hangman’, make them with magnetic letters and so on. It’s also a good idea to practise them in a different order each time as your child will be very good at remembering the order rather than the word!
General Notices
Visiting Nurse forms: Please return your visiting nurse forms ASAP. This allows our local nurse Jody to come and pick up the forms prior to our session times.
Contact details/permissions: In order to be able to post pictures in the newsletter or on our Facebook page of your students working at school, please return the contact details/permission forms ASAP.
Banking: Foundation banking will be collected in class on Tuesday mornings. The bank books will be stored safely in the office over night ready for Wednesday morning. These will be returned to Foundation students on the Thursday.
Icy Poles: Icy poles will be available for only the Foundation students on a Friday, first recess. If you would like your student to purchase an icy pole please send them to school with correct change.
Assessments: Thank-you to those they have already attended their assessment session on Wednesday. Your student will have a reminder slip in their bags the day before their assessment sessions.