Excursions/Incursions

• Term 1: First day of primary school!
• Term 2: Fire Education Incursion, Pet Safety Incursion, Teddy Bear's Picnic at school, Local Community Walk, Cultural Day at school
• Term 3: 100 Days of Prep at school, Zoo Excursion
• Term 4: Farm Excursion

Other Important Information

• The Prep Team strives to send out a weekly update via COMPASS regarding important upcoming information.

Sport

• From Term 2 onwards: PMP (Perceptual Motor Program)

PMP is a movement-based program which helps students improve their hand/eye and eye/foot coordination, fitness, balance, locomotion and eye-tracking skills

Newsletters

Term 1 Prep Newsletter  |  Term 2 Prep Newsletter

 Literacy

• Phonics initial sounds
• Blending sounds to make a word
• Beginning Reading and recognising high frequency words
• Holding their pencil correctly and formation of letters
• Writing the sounds they hear in words
• Drawing pictures to tell a story

 Numeracy

• Counting forwards and backwards from 20
• Counting and matching objects and numbers 1:1
• Creating patterns
• Compare objects on length, capacity and volume
• 2 Dimensional Shapes
• Making picture graphs

 Science 

• Our 5 Senses
• On the Move – Physical Science
• Weather in my World
• Wonderful Wildlife
• What is it made of?

 History and Geography

• Our Community, Our World
• Farms
• NAIDOC Week activities
• Cultural events

 Wellbeing

• Classroom expectations
• Being a classroom ‘family’
• Filling Up Someone’s Bucket
• How to be a good friend
• School expectations and values
• Focussing our Attention and Active Listening
• Year 5 buddies
• The Resilience Project
• ArtSEL