Foundation

00A: Bec Warren  

00B: Tia Rigoni  

00C: Chloe Turnball  

00D: Esin Dincer 

00E: Ruby Edmonds 

00F: Centayne Stopford

00G: Meg Esnouf & Loukia Con

00H: Ashleigh Cosgriff & Laura Ferguson 

Weekly schedule:

PE and Health: Tues - 00A, 00B, 00E, 00F Thurs - 00C, 00D, 00G, 00H

Art: Tues - 00B, 00C, 00F, 00G Thurs - 00A, 00D, 00E, 00H

Performing Arts: Tues - 00C, 00D, 00G, 00H Thurs - 00A, 00B, 00E, 00F 

Auslan: Tues - 00A, 00D, 00E, 00H Thurs - 00B, 00C, 00F, 00H

Library: Mon - 00G, 00D Tues - 00B, 00E Wed - 00A, 00H Fri - 00F, 00C

Important Dates

February 9th: Campus Assemblies - Ambrosia 9:10am & Arrowsmith 2:40pm

February 11th: Meet & Greet 3:45-6pm @ Arrowsmith

February 19th: Meet & Greet 3:45-6pm @ Arrowsmith

February 23rd: Parent Helper Induction session 9:30am at Ambrosia

March 2nd: Campus Assemblies - Ambrosia 9:10am & Arrowsmith 2:40pm

March 9th: Labour Day public holiday

March 13th: School Photo Day

March 20th: Harmony Day Community Picnic 4-6pm

April 2nd: Easter Bonnet Parade & Last day of Term - Early Finish 2:15pm

Learning

In Term 1, the Foundation students are focusing on the following:

• Reading – recognising upper- and lower-case letters and the most common sound each letter represents; blending sounds when reading (e.g. c-a-t… cat); developing early reading skills such as pointing to words and reading from left to right; and sharing narratives, fairy tales and stories.
• Writing – developing beginning writing behaviours, including correct pencil grip, correct posture, writing from left to right, practising correct letter formation, and recording known sounds with a focus on lowercase letters.
• Numeracy – naming, modelling and ordering numbers to 10; counting forwards and backwards; using counting strategies to solve problems involving comparing sets; and saying, copying, continuing and creating patterns using objects.
• Inquiry – our Inquiry topic this term is Personal Histories, where students explore their families and where they come from.

Home Learning

Home Reading –

We will be sending home one decodable “I Read To You” text per week once a week. This is for your child to read to you nightly.  The focus of these books is for matching sounds, breaking up (segmenting) words and putting them back together (blending). The same book is read five nights a week to help build up segmenting, blending and to help build up fluency. 

We will be sending home up to five of the “You Read to Me” books that will be selected by students, as they would like these books read to them. These are for you to read to your child nightly. The focus of these books is for your child to hear what fluent reading sounds like. You can read a different book to your child each night. You can also read a book again on a different night if your child wants to hear it again.

Math Seeds & Reading Eggs – Your child will be able to log into these apps at home to practice their reading and numeracy. At this stage, it would be preferred if students used Fast Phonics, rather than Reading Eggs.