Prep Term 1 Overview 2022

Term overview

Welcome to all our existing and new parents and carers in Prep. We have a busy term ahead of us with lots of exciting things happening. It is very important for students to attend school every day so they do not miss out on any of the curriculum or fall behind. It is also important for every student to have a healthy breakfast before coming to school to help their concentration and ability to learn. Thank you for the healthy lunches – remember to gauge how much food your child requires and try and limit too many packaged foods if possible. Please put water in the water bottles and try to avoid juice if possible. If names come off lunchboxes and water bottles, make sure you rename them throughout the year to avoid confusion.

Just a reminder… No hat, no play! Ensure you have spare clothes in your child’s bag every day.

To build a sense of belonging, pride and respect, students are expected to wear their full school uniform - 

• No jumpers with hoods or jumpers that are not a dark blue
• No jewellery with exception to watches, medical alert bracelets or religious/ memorial references.
• No knee-high colourful socks (Black, blue, white)
• School Hats to be worn (due to an awaiting back order, expectation here will be eased until order is received)

Attendance

How to report an absence: 

• Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
• Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
• Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return

Our schools attendance target is 95% 

Reading/spelling

Our school is implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted.  With this change, we will be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.

Due to this change, home reading will look different as well. Students may come home with games with high frequency words or sounds instead of home readers. This is reading practice. Please be assured that students will be getting a much higher level of reading mileage at school every day.

English

EXPLORING OUR NEW WORLD:

In this unit, students will listen to and read texts to explore predictable text structures and common visual patterns in a range of literary and non-literary texts. They will engage in many opportunities to learn about language, literature and literacy.

Maths

This term we will be covering a range of mathematical concepts.

• Patterning and Algebra – AB patterning, sorting and classifying objects
• Number and place value - count in ones, forwards and backwards from different starting points, identify small collections, connect number names, numerals and quantities, rote count to 10 and beyond.
• Measurement - sequence familiar events, compare the duration of events, compare objects based on length, mass and capacity using direct and indirect comparison.
• Location and transformation - follow and give simple instructions, describe position.
• Data representation and interpretation - answer simple questions, pose simple questions, and identify information gathered by asking and answering questions.

Science

Move It Move It

The unit this term is called – On the Move. The students will develop an understanding of how things move. They will explore the push and pull forces they can use to move objects in ways such as sliding, bouncing and spinning. Through investigations, students will observe and gather evidence about rolling objects and explore the idea of fair testing.

HASS

My Family History

This semester students will explore families and their relationships with each other. They will identify who is in their family and learn about their family background and relationships within their family. They will learn how families can be the same or different. Students will identify important events in their own lives. They will identify how they, their families and friends know about their past and commemorate events that are important to them.

HPE

In PE, students in prep will be invovled in a unit that allows them to demonstrate personal and social skills when working with others in a range of activities. In Health, students will recognise how they are growing and changing and will identify actions that help them be healthy. 

Music

During Term One, students will listen to and discuss a variety of musical pieces. These will develop specific music vocabulary.  Students will learn a number of songs and musical games and will express themselves through art activities.  

Drama

Stories Come to Life - ‘Journey’

Students make and respond to drama by using the picture book ‘Journey’ as a stimulus as they bring the characters to life with voice, movement, soundscapes and improvisations for performance.

Assessment schedule

Contact information

Contact your childs teacher via email: 

Prep A – Vanessa Graham (vgrah5@eq.edu.au);  Prep B – Darelle Andersen (dande135@eq.edu.au)

Prep C - Kaileh Cavenett (kcave12@eq.edu.au)     Prep D - Angela Buckley (ambuc1@eq.edu.au)