Welcome to Foundation
Welcome to Foundation term 1 2020! Term 1 promises to be an exciting one for all of our new students. There will be lots of learning and fun to be had!
English
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In Foundation, students engage with a variety of texts. They listen to, read and view spoken, written and multimodal texts from varying genres. These include traditional oral texts, picture books, various types of stories, rhyming, poetry and non-fiction texts. They participate in shared reading, viewing and storytelling using a range of literary texts, and recognise the entertaining nature of literature.
In Reading, students are immersed in a variety of literature. As students are beginning readers, they begin with predictable texts that range from caption books to books with one or more sentences per page. These texts involve straightforward sequences of events and everyday happenings with recognisable, realistic or imaginary characters. Informative texts present a small amount of new content about familiar topics of interest; a small range of language features, including simple and compound sentences; mostly familiar vocabulary, known high- frequency words and single-syllable words that can be decoded phonically, and illustrations that strongly support the printed text. We highly recommend establishing a daily routine for your daily home reading. A regular time and place will help you and your child to remember and enjoy the reading. This is an extremely important part of your child’s education. We have found that the most effective learning occurs with an effective home – school partnership. Within writing, students create a range of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts including pictorial representations, short statements, performances, recounts and poetry.
In Maths, students will be exploring variety of topics including:
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PMPOur Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) is a movement-based program which helps younger students improve their eye/hand and eye/foot coordination, fitness, balance, locomotion and eye-tracking skills.
Topic StudiesOur topic studies unit this term is 'All about me' where students will look at themes such as:
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Independent Learning Time
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Play is a powerful and important activity. It has a natural and positive influence on children’s social, physical, emotional and cognitive development. The best learning happens when children play.
School is a fantastic place for children to learn through play. Play-based learning encourages talking, reading, thinking and writing. Through this, students see literacy and numeracy as part of their everyday experience. |
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Wellbeing
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At Maiden Gully Primary School, students participate in two wellbeing programs that are The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program and Play is the way program.
The RRRR learning materials are designed to develop students' social, emotional and positive relationship skills. Play is the way is a practical methodology for teaching social and emotional skills using guided play, classroom activities and an empowering language. It is a process that gives students a way to develop, improve and entrench the personal and social capabilities. Both of these programs are unique in their physical interactive games and meaningful in conversations that take place. |
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Class DojoClass Dojo is one of our major communication methods between Teachers and parent/carers. If you are not already using Dojo via an app on your mobile phone or on a computer, please see your child's teacher who will can email or print an invitation that includes the student code that is required upon sign-up.
Please check your child’s Class Dojo page regularly for any updates. |
Our Grade Prep Teachers for 2020Prep C – Paris Craig
Prep W – Siobhan Walkden Prep S – Jamie Stagg Prep M - Bev Martin Prep L - Danielle Lamprell |
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Upcoming dates for term 1
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